Vijayawada climate

Name: Vijayawada
Address: IN

Vijayawada is warmest in May, with average highs of 40 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 19 °C. September is the wettest month (197 mm) and January the driest (7.1 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Vijayawada averages 985 mm of rain and 364 days above 25 °C.

India · population 1,143,232 · 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 19 °C
Driest month January 7 mm
Wettest month September 197 mm
Least cloud February 27 % cloud
Hottest on record May 46 °C
Coldest on record January 13 °C

What to expectVijayawada through the year

Vijayawada has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 30 °C in January to 40 °C in May, a swing of 9.4 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 364 days a year reach 25 °C, 284 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 46 °C, in May.

Rain is strongly seasonal. September averages 197 mm against 7 mm in January — 28 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	30.0 °C	7 mm	33 %
February	32.7 °C	9 mm	27 %
March	35.8 °C	9 mm	28 %
April	37.6 °C	18 mm	35 %
May	39.5 °C	37 mm	45 %
June	35.8 °C	141 mm	82 %
July	32.7 °C	176 mm	92 %
August	31.8 °C	177 mm	90 %
September	31.7 °C	197 mm	80 %
October	31.0 °C	137 mm	65 %
November	30.0 °C	64 mm	51 %
December	29.2 °C	14 mm	40 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	30.0 °C	19.0 °C	24.2 °C	34.3 °C	12.6 °C	31	15
February	32.7 °C	20.7 °C	26.2 °C	39.2 °C	15.8 °C	28	26
March	35.8 °C	23.3 °C	28.9 °C	40.4 °C	17.5 °C	31	31
April	37.6 °C	26.1 °C	31.2 °C	42.9 °C	21.4 °C	30	30
May	39.5 °C	28.4 °C	33.5 °C	45.6 °C	24.2 °C	31	31
June	35.8 °C	27.7 °C	31.5 °C	45.4 °C	23.9 °C	30	28
July	32.7 °C	26.2 °C	29.2 °C	39.4 °C	23.5 °C	31	26
August	31.8 °C	25.7 °C	28.5 °C	38.7 °C	23.4 °C	31	26
September	31.7 °C	25.2 °C	28.2 °C	37.9 °C	21.8 °C	30	25
October	31.0 °C	23.8 °C	27.0 °C	37.6 °C	19.1 °C	31	23
November	30.0 °C	21.4 °C	25.4 °C	34.4 °C	15.1 °C	29	15
December	29.2 °C	19.2 °C	24.0 °C	34.0 °C	12.6 °C	31	8

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	7 mm	2	11 h/day	33 %	71 %	12 km/h
February	9 mm	1	12 h/day	27 %	67 %	14 km/h
March	9 mm	2	12 h/day	28 %	64 %	14 km/h
April	18 mm	3	13 h/day	35 %	64 %	15 km/h
May	37 mm	4	13 h/day	45 %	57 %	16 km/h
June	141 mm	14	13 h/day	82 %	63 %	18 km/h
July	176 mm	19	13 h/day	92 %	71 %	18 km/h
August	177 mm	18	13 h/day	90 %	75 %	17 km/h
September	197 mm	18	12 h/day	80 %	79 %	13 km/h
October	137 mm	15	12 h/day	65 %	81 %	11 km/h
November	64 mm	7	11 h/day	51 %	77 %	11 km/h
December	14 mm	2	11 h/day	40 %	72 %	11 km/h

How Vijayawada 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
Vijayawada	40 °C	19 °C	985 mm	364
Thenali · India	39 °C	19 °C	1,001 mm	364
Guntur · India	39 °C	19 °C	934 mm	364
Eluru · India	39 °C	19 °C	1,018 mm	364
Machilīpatnam · India	37 °C	20 °C	1,015 mm	364
Khammam · India	40 °C	18 °C	1,001 mm	364

Where Vijayawada ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The warmest places in Asia in March	28th of 50	36 °C
The warmest places in Asia in February	33rd of 50	33 °C
The warmest places in Asia year-round	41st of 50	33 °C

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Vijayawada’s climate

When is the best time to visit Vijayawada?

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

How hot does Vijayawada get?

In May, the warmest month, daily highs average 40 °C. About 284 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 19 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Vijayawada?

September, averaging 197 mm over 18 days with rain. The driest month is January with 7 mm. The year as a whole averages 985 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 Vijayawada 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: 16.507°, 80.647° (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.