Tumkūr climate

Name: Tumkūr
Address: IN

Tumkūr is warmest in April, with average highs of 34 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 16 °C. October is the wettest month (148 mm) and January the driest (3.6 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Tumkūr averages 944 mm of rain and 346 days above 25 °C.

India · population 307,359 · 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 34 °C
Coldest month January 16 °C
Driest month January 4 mm
Wettest month October 148 mm
Least cloud February 26 % cloud
Hottest on record April 38 °C
Coldest on record January 9.9 °C

What to expectTumkūr through the year

Tumkūr has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 28 °C in January to 34 °C in April, a swing of 6.6 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 346 days a year reach 25 °C, 113 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 38 °C, in April.

Rain is strongly seasonal. October averages 148 mm against 4 mm in January — 41 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	4 mm	34 %
February	30.6 °C	6 mm	26 %
March	33.2 °C	14 mm	29 %
April	33.8 °C	41 mm	45 %
May	32.5 °C	106 mm	63 %
June	28.6 °C	136 mm	88 %
July	27.0 °C	148 mm	94 %
August	26.8 °C	129 mm	92 %
September	27.3 °C	135 mm	84 %
October	27.1 °C	148 mm	74 %
November	26.6 °C	61 mm	63 %
December	26.6 °C	17 mm	48 %

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	15.5 °C	21.7 °C	32.0 °C	9.9 °C	30	3
February	30.6 °C	17.3 °C	24.0 °C	34.7 °C	11.7 °C	28	18
March	33.2 °C	19.7 °C	26.6 °C	36.9 °C	12.6 °C	31	29
April	33.8 °C	21.5 °C	27.5 °C	37.5 °C	16.6 °C	30	29
May	32.5 °C	21.8 °C	26.6 °C	37.5 °C	18.7 °C	31	27
June	28.6 °C	21.1 °C	24.1 °C	36.5 °C	18.5 °C	29	6
July	27.0 °C	20.5 °C	23.1 °C	32.2 °C	18.2 °C	28	0
August	26.8 °C	20.1 °C	22.8 °C	32.5 °C	18.2 °C	28	0
September	27.3 °C	19.6 °C	23.0 °C	30.9 °C	16.1 °C	29	0
October	27.1 °C	19.1 °C	22.7 °C	31.3 °C	13.8 °C	29	0
November	26.6 °C	17.5 °C	21.8 °C	31.6 °C	11.3 °C	26	1
December	26.6 °C	15.6 °C	20.9 °C	30.0 °C	10.2 °C	27	0

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	4 mm	1	11 h/day	34 %	57 %	13 km/h
February	6 mm	1	12 h/day	26 %	48 %	13 km/h
March	14 mm	2	12 h/day	29 %	44 %	13 km/h
April	41 mm	7	12 h/day	45 %	54 %	12 km/h
May	106 mm	14	13 h/day	63 %	66 %	14 km/h
June	136 mm	20	13 h/day	88 %	76 %	20 km/h
July	148 mm	21	13 h/day	94 %	79 %	22 km/h
August	129 mm	19	13 h/day	92 %	79 %	20 km/h
September	135 mm	16	12 h/day	84 %	79 %	15 km/h
October	148 mm	16	12 h/day	74 %	79 %	12 km/h
November	61 mm	8	12 h/day	63 %	74 %	14 km/h
December	17 mm	3	11 h/day	48 %	67 %	14 km/h

How Tumkūr 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
Tumkūr	34 °C	16 °C	944 mm	346
Bengaluru · India	33 °C	15 °C	913 mm	326
Hindupur · India	36 °C	16 °C	710 mm	356
Hosūr · India	33 °C	15 °C	868 mm	335

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Tumkūr’s climate

When is the best time to visit Tumkūr?

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, April is the warmest month and January the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Tumkūr get?

In April, the warmest month, daily highs average 34 °C. About 113 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 38 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 16 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Tumkūr?

October, averaging 148 mm over 16 days with rain. The driest month is January with 4 mm. The year as a whole averages 944 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 Tumkūr 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: 13.341°, 77.102° (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.