Saharsa climate

Name: Saharsa
Address: IN

Saharsa is warmest in April, with average highs of 36 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 11 °C. July is the wettest month (351 mm) and November the driest (4.9 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Saharsa averages 1,369 mm of rain and 304 days above 25 °C.

India · population 156,540 · 1991–2020 normals

Temperature below 0 °C to above 30 °C Rain band height is that month’s share of the wettest month

Warmest month April 36 °C
Coldest month January 11 °C
Driest month November 5 mm
Wettest month July 351 mm
Least cloud November 17 % cloud
Hottest on record June 44 °C
Coldest on record January 5.7 °C

What to expectSaharsa through the year

Saharsa has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 22 °C in January to 36 °C in April, a swing of 13 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 304 days a year reach 25 °C, 201 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 44 °C, in June.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 351 mm against 5 mm in November — 72 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	22.3 °C	15 mm	22 %
February	26.0 °C	14 mm	20 %
March	31.9 °C	16 mm	20 %
April	35.7 °C	29 mm	25 %
May	35.2 °C	83 mm	36 %
June	33.3 °C	229 mm	69 %
July	31.6 °C	351 mm	90 %
August	31.5 °C	290 mm	89 %
September	30.8 °C	258 mm	72 %
October	30.0 °C	74 mm	32 %
November	27.9 °C	5 mm	17 %
December	24.2 °C	6 mm	19 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	22.3 °C	10.6 °C	16.3 °C	28.0 °C	5.7 °C	2	0
February	26.0 °C	13.3 °C	19.7 °C	35.8 °C	7.1 °C	18	2
March	31.9 °C	18.3 °C	25.2 °C	40.1 °C	10.3 °C	30	23
April	35.7 °C	22.6 °C	29.2 °C	42.7 °C	16.1 °C	30	28
May	35.2 °C	24.5 °C	29.7 °C	43.6 °C	20.0 °C	31	29
June	33.3 °C	25.5 °C	29.1 °C	44.2 °C	22.4 °C	30	27
July	31.6 °C	25.7 °C	28.2 °C	37.1 °C	23.6 °C	31	26
August	31.5 °C	25.6 °C	28.1 °C	36.5 °C	23.1 °C	31	26
September	30.8 °C	24.7 °C	27.4 °C	34.9 °C	19.9 °C	30	22
October	30.0 °C	21.6 °C	25.6 °C	33.8 °C	15.4 °C	31	16
November	27.9 °C	16.4 °C	22.1 °C	32.9 °C	10.6 °C	29	2
December	24.2 °C	12.4 °C	18.1 °C	29.2 °C	5.7 °C	11	0

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	15 mm	2	11 h/day	22 %	71 %	12 km/h
February	14 mm	2	11 h/day	20 %	63 %	14 km/h
March	16 mm	2	12 h/day	20 %	48 %	17 km/h
April	29 mm	5	13 h/day	25 %	50 %	19 km/h
May	83 mm	11	13 h/day	36 %	65 %	19 km/h
June	229 mm	20	14 h/day	69 %	79 %	18 km/h
July	351 mm	28	14 h/day	90 %	85 %	17 km/h
August	290 mm	27	13 h/day	89 %	85 %	16 km/h
September	258 mm	22	12 h/day	72 %	86 %	14 km/h
October	74 mm	8	12 h/day	32 %	79 %	10 km/h
November	5 mm	1	11 h/day	17 %	68 %	10 km/h
December	6 mm	1	11 h/day	19 %	69 %	10 km/h

How Saharsa compares

The same four figures for nearby destinations, so the numbers above have something to be read against. Summer high is the warmest month's average high; winter low is the coldest month's average low.

Destination	Summer high	Winter low	Rain per year	Days above 25 °C
Saharsa	36 °C	11 °C	1,369 mm	304
Munger · India	36 °C	11 °C	1,256 mm	299
Begusarai · India	37 °C	11 °C	1,260 mm	299
Darbhanga · India	36 °C	10 °C	1,362 mm	302
Bhāgalpur · India	36 °C	11 °C	1,292 mm	300
Purnia · India	35 °C	11 °C	1,696 mm	308

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Saharsa.

QuestionsCommon questions about Saharsa’s climate

When is the best time to visit Saharsa?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. February, November, December sit closest to 20 °C on average, April is the warmest month and November the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Saharsa get?

In April, the warmest month, daily highs average 36 °C. About 201 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 44 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 11 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Saharsa?

July, averaging 351 mm over 28 days with rain. The driest month is November with 5 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,369 mm.

Are these figures a forecast?

No. They are 1991–2020 climate normals: the average of thirty years, which describes what a month is usually like in Saharsa rather than what any particular week will bring. Individual years can differ substantially from the normal.

Data sources and method

ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis — Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), ECMWF. Copernicus Licence
Open-Meteo — Open-Meteo.com. CC BY 4.0
NOAA OISST v2.1 — NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public domain
GeoNames — GeoNames.org. CC BY 4.0

Normal period: 1991–2020
Data point: 25.875°, 86.596° (the coordinates the reanalysis values are taken for)
Dataset version: era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
Last processed: 1 August 2026

Measured values come from ERA5 reanalysis and are reproduced unchanged. Calculated by us: monthly rankings, daylight hours, beach and comfort scores. Full formulas are on the methodology page.

Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.