Sambalpur climate

Name: Sambalpur
Address: IN

Sambalpur is warmest in May, with average highs of 40 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 14 °C. July is the wettest month (426 mm) and December the driest (9.4 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Sambalpur averages 1,478 mm of rain and 353 days above 25 °C.

India · population 189,366 · 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 May 40 °C
Coldest month January 14 °C
Driest month December 9 mm
Wettest month July 426 mm
Least cloud February 17 % cloud
Hottest on record May 46 °C
Coldest on record January 8.5 °C

What to expectSambalpur through the year

Sambalpur has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 27 °C in January to 40 °C in May, a swing of 13 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 353 days a year reach 25 °C, 220 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 46 °C, in May.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 426 mm against 9 mm in December — 45 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	27.0 °C	17 mm	19 %
February	30.8 °C	14 mm	17 %
March	35.5 °C	14 mm	18 %
April	38.9 °C	15 mm	23 %
May	40.2 °C	26 mm	30 %
June	34.9 °C	246 mm	76 %
July	30.2 °C	426 mm	94 %
August	29.8 °C	392 mm	93 %
September	30.4 °C	241 mm	79 %
October	30.5 °C	68 mm	43 %
November	29.0 °C	11 mm	27 %
December	26.9 °C	9 mm	20 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	27.0 °C	14.3 °C	20.8 °C	34.9 °C	8.5 °C	25	3
February	30.8 °C	17.3 °C	24.2 °C	38.1 °C	10.6 °C	27	18
March	35.5 °C	21.3 °C	28.6 °C	41.9 °C	14.1 °C	31	29
April	38.9 °C	25.2 °C	32.2 °C	44.9 °C	19.3 °C	30	30
May	40.2 °C	27.8 °C	34.0 °C	45.8 °C	23.2 °C	31	31
June	34.9 °C	27.1 °C	30.8 °C	44.7 °C	23.0 °C	30	26
July	30.2 °C	25.3 °C	27.4 °C	36.9 °C	22.7 °C	31	18
August	29.8 °C	24.9 °C	26.9 °C	34.6 °C	22.6 °C	31	16
September	30.4 °C	24.6 °C	27.2 °C	34.4 °C	21.1 °C	30	20
October	30.5 °C	22.5 °C	26.4 °C	34.0 °C	16.4 °C	31	20
November	29.0 °C	18.4 °C	23.8 °C	33.4 °C	12.9 °C	30	8
December	26.9 °C	14.7 °C	21.0 °C	31.2 °C	9.9 °C	27	1

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	17 mm	2	11 h/day	19 %	59 %	9.6 km/h
February	14 mm	2	11 h/day	17 %	52 %	11 km/h
March	14 mm	3	12 h/day	18 %	45 %	12 km/h
April	15 mm	4	13 h/day	23 %	43 %	13 km/h
May	26 mm	4	13 h/day	30 %	47 %	14 km/h
June	246 mm	18	13 h/day	76 %	69 %	15 km/h
July	426 mm	26	13 h/day	94 %	85 %	14 km/h
August	392 mm	27	13 h/day	93 %	86 %	13 km/h
September	241 mm	21	12 h/day	79 %	84 %	11 km/h
October	68 mm	9	12 h/day	43 %	76 %	9.4 km/h
November	11 mm	2	11 h/day	27 %	67 %	8.7 km/h
December	9 mm	1	11 h/day	20 %	62 %	8.7 km/h

How Sambalpur 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
Sambalpur	40 °C	14 °C	1,478 mm	353
Raigarh · India	41 °C	13 °C	1,521 mm	350
Rourkela · India	39 °C	13 °C	1,389 mm	341
Korba · India	41 °C	12 °C	1,454 mm	343
Bilāspur · India	41 °C	13 °C	1,381 mm	346

Where Sambalpur ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The warmest places in Asia in April	21stof 50	39 °C
The warmest places in Asia in March	41stof 50	35 °C
The warmest places in the world in April	43rdof 50	39 °C

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Sambalpur’s climate

When is the best time to visit Sambalpur?

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

How hot does Sambalpur get?

In May, the warmest month, daily highs average 40 °C. About 220 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 46 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 14 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Sambalpur?

July, averaging 426 mm over 26 days with rain. The driest month is December with 9 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,478 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 Sambalpur 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
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.