Siliguri climate

Name: Siliguri
Address: IN

Siliguri is warmest in April, with average highs of 31 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 11 °C. July is the wettest month (858 mm) and December the driest (8.1 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Siliguri averages 3,047 mm of rain and 280 days above 25 °C.

India · population 515,574 · 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 31 °C
Coldest month January 11 °C
Driest month December 8 mm
Wettest month July 858 mm
Least cloud November 24 % cloud
Hottest on record April 41 °C
Coldest on record January 5.5 °C

What to expectSiliguri through the year

Siliguri has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 22 °C in January to 31 °C in April, a swing of 10 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 280 days a year reach 25 °C, 92 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 41 °C, in April.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 858 mm against 8 mm in December — 105 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	21.6 °C	19 mm	33 %
February	24.2 °C	20 mm	35 %
March	29.2 °C	29 mm	34 %
April	30.9 °C	75 mm	43 %
May	29.9 °C	237 mm	56 %
June	29.4 °C	645 mm	81 %
July	29.2 °C	858 mm	93 %
August	29.6 °C	596 mm	91 %
September	29.1 °C	423 mm	76 %
October	28.5 °C	128 mm	37 %
November	26.3 °C	8 mm	24 %
December	23.3 °C	8 mm	26 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	21.6 °C	10.7 °C	16.2 °C	27.4 °C	5.5 °C	2	0
February	24.2 °C	12.6 °C	18.6 °C	31.5 °C	6.8 °C	11	0
March	29.2 °C	16.1 °C	23.0 °C	37.8 °C	9.5 °C	29	12
April	30.9 °C	19.4 °C	25.3 °C	41.3 °C	12.8 °C	29	17
May	29.9 °C	22.0 °C	25.9 °C	37.7 °C	16.7 °C	31	14
June	29.4 °C	23.9 °C	26.4 °C	34.9 °C	20.9 °C	30	11
July	29.2 °C	24.5 °C	26.5 °C	36.1 °C	22.9 °C	31	9
August	29.6 °C	24.5 °C	26.7 °C	36.5 °C	22.1 °C	31	13
September	29.1 °C	23.4 °C	26.0 °C	35.7 °C	18.9 °C	29	10
October	28.5 °C	19.7 °C	24.0 °C	33.5 °C	13.8 °C	30	5
November	26.3 °C	15.2 °C	20.7 °C	31.4 °C	9.6 °C	23	0
December	23.3 °C	11.9 °C	17.5 °C	28.1 °C	6.4 °C	6	0

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	19 mm	4	11 h/day	33 %	73 %	6.7 km/h
February	20 mm	4	11 h/day	35 %	68 %	7.7 km/h
March	29 mm	5	12 h/day	34 %	58 %	9.3 km/h
April	75 mm	14	13 h/day	43 %	66 %	10 km/h
May	237 mm	23	13 h/day	56 %	80 %	9.5 km/h
June	645 mm	28	14 h/day	81 %	88 %	8.7 km/h
July	858 mm	30	14 h/day	93 %	90 %	8.7 km/h
August	596 mm	29	13 h/day	91 %	89 %	8.2 km/h
September	423 mm	24	12 h/day	76 %	88 %	7.4 km/h
October	128 mm	11	12 h/day	37 %	81 %	6.6 km/h
November	8 mm	2	11 h/day	24 %	73 %	6.6 km/h
December	8 mm	2	10 h/day	26 %	71 %	6.4 km/h

How Siliguri 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
Siliguri	31 °C	11 °C	3,047 mm	280
Jaigaon · India	29 °C	12 °C	3,435 mm	250
Saidpur · Bangladesh	32 °C	11 °C	2,361 mm	312
Dharān · Nepal	30 °C	9.3 °C	1,765 mm	247
Biratnagar · Nepal	34 °C	11 °C	1,668 mm	297
Dinajpur · Bangladesh	33 °C	11 °C	2,238 mm	309
Rāiganj · India	34 °C	11 °C	1,744 mm	309

Where Siliguri ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Places with the best weather in Asia in February	33rd of 50	95/100
Places with the best weather in the world in February	47th of 50	95/100

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Siliguri’s climate

When is the best time to visit Siliguri?

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 December the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Siliguri get?

In April, the warmest month, daily highs average 31 °C. About 92 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 41 °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 Siliguri?

July, averaging 858 mm over 30 days with rain. The driest month is December with 8 mm. The year as a whole averages 3,047 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 Siliguri 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: 26.710°, 88.429° (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.