Tirupati climate

Name: Tirupati
Address: IN

Tirupati is warmest in May, with average highs of 38 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 18 °C. October is the wettest month (170 mm) and February the driest (6.8 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Tirupati averages 864 mm of rain and 361 days above 25 °C.

India · population 295,323 · 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 38 °C
Coldest month January 18 °C
Driest month February 7 mm
Wettest month October 170 mm
Least cloud March 29 % cloud
Hottest on record May 43 °C
Coldest on record December 12 °C

What to expectTirupati through the year

Tirupati has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 28 °C in January to 38 °C in May, a swing of 9.4 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 361 days a year reach 25 °C, 257 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 43 °C, in May.

Rain is strongly seasonal. October averages 170 mm against 7 mm in February — 25 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	28.3 °C	11 mm	46 %
February	31.5 °C	7 mm	33 %
March	35.1 °C	11 mm	29 %
April	37.1 °C	15 mm	40 %
May	38.2 °C	42 mm	54 %
June	35.6 °C	81 mm	84 %
July	33.9 °C	90 mm	91 %
August	33.1 °C	99 mm	88 %
September	32.6 °C	114 mm	79 %
October	30.7 °C	170 mm	72 %
November	28.3 °C	152 mm	68 %
December	27.0 °C	73 mm	59 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	28.3 °C	17.8 °C	22.9 °C	32.9 °C	12.1 °C	30	4
February	31.5 °C	19.0 °C	25.0 °C	37.4 °C	13.3 °C	28	22
March	35.1 °C	21.3 °C	27.9 °C	40.0 °C	14.4 °C	31	31
April	37.1 °C	24.5 °C	30.3 °C	42.1 °C	19.5 °C	30	30
May	38.2 °C	26.8 °C	32.1 °C	42.7 °C	23.1 °C	31	31
June	35.6 °C	26.6 °C	30.5 °C	42.4 °C	23.6 °C	30	29
July	33.9 °C	25.8 °C	29.3 °C	39.8 °C	23.1 °C	31	30
August	33.1 °C	25.2 °C	28.7 °C	38.0 °C	22.5 °C	31	29
September	32.6 °C	24.4 °C	28.1 °C	38.3 °C	21.2 °C	30	27
October	30.7 °C	22.9 °C	26.4 °C	36.9 °C	17.9 °C	30	20
November	28.3 °C	20.7 °C	24.3 °C	36.1 °C	14.3 °C	28	5
December	27.0 °C	18.4 °C	22.7 °C	32.4 °C	11.8 °C	29	0

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	11 mm	3	11 h/day	46 %	75 %	11 km/h
February	7 mm	1	12 h/day	33 %	68 %	12 km/h
March	11 mm	2	12 h/day	29 %	62 %	12 km/h
April	15 mm	3	12 h/day	40 %	63 %	13 km/h
May	42 mm	7	13 h/day	54 %	57 %	14 km/h
June	81 mm	13	13 h/day	84 %	61 %	16 km/h
July	90 mm	14	13 h/day	91 %	63 %	17 km/h
August	99 mm	14	13 h/day	88 %	67 %	16 km/h
September	114 mm	16	12 h/day	79 %	73 %	13 km/h
October	170 mm	18	12 h/day	72 %	80 %	11 km/h
November	152 mm	15	12 h/day	68 %	83 %	12 km/h
December	73 mm	8	11 h/day	59 %	81 %	12 km/h

How Tirupati 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
Tirupati	38 °C	18 °C	864 mm	361
Chittoor · India	37 °C	17 °C	809 mm	359
Rānipet · India	38 °C	18 °C	937 mm	362
Vellore · India	38 °C	17 °C	931 mm	361
Kanchipuram · India	38 °C	19 °C	956 mm	363
Avadi · India	38 °C	20 °C	942 mm	363
Madanapalle · India	35 °C	15 °C	815 mm	344

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Tirupati’s climate

When is the best time to visit Tirupati?

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

How hot does Tirupati get?

In May, the warmest month, daily highs average 38 °C. About 257 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 43 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 18 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Tirupati?

October, averaging 170 mm over 18 days with rain. The driest month is February with 7 mm. The year as a whole averages 864 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 Tirupati 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: 13.636°, 79.420° (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.