Bahawalpur climate

Name: Bahawalpur
Address: PK

Bahawalpur is warmest in June, with average highs of 41 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 7.7 °C. July is the wettest month (54 mm) and November the driest (2.3 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Bahawalpur averages 216 mm of rain and 280 days above 25 °C.

Pakistan · population 903,795 · 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 June 41 °C
Coldest month January 7.7 °C
Driest month November 2 mm
Wettest month July 54 mm
Least cloud October 6 % cloud
Hottest on record May 49 °C
Coldest on record January 1.5 °C

What to expectBahawalpur through the year

Bahawalpur has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 20 °C in January to 41 °C in June, a swing of 22 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 280 days a year reach 25 °C, 227 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 49 °C, in May.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 54 mm against 2 mm in November — 23 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	20.4 °C	8 mm	26 %
February	23.5 °C	11 mm	27 %
March	29.1 °C	12 mm	29 %
April	35.8 °C	8 mm	25 %
May	40.6 °C	9 mm	17 %
June	41.1 °C	20 mm	16 %
July	38.7 °C	54 mm	36 %
August	37.2 °C	49 mm	37 %
September	36.3 °C	31 mm	14 %
October	33.5 °C	6 mm	6 %
November	27.8 °C	2 mm	13 %
December	22.7 °C	5 mm	18 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	20.4 °C	7.7 °C	13.8 °C	26.8 °C	1.5 °C	1	0
February	23.5 °C	10.2 °C	16.7 °C	32.0 °C	3.0 °C	9	0
March	29.1 °C	15.4 °C	22.2 °C	38.3 °C	6.0 °C	27	12
April	35.8 °C	21.0 °C	28.5 °C	43.6 °C	12.2 °C	30	27
May	40.6 °C	26.2 °C	33.6 °C	48.7 °C	17.5 °C	31	31
June	41.1 °C	29.7 °C	35.4 °C	47.5 °C	23.0 °C	30	30
July	38.7 °C	29.8 °C	34.2 °C	45.5 °C	24.6 °C	31	31
August	37.2 °C	28.8 °C	32.8 °C	43.8 °C	24.7 °C	31	31
September	36.3 °C	26.4 °C	31.0 °C	41.4 °C	20.6 °C	30	29
October	33.5 °C	20.4 °C	26.7 °C	39.5 °C	13.8 °C	31	28
November	27.8 °C	14.3 °C	20.8 °C	35.1 °C	7.1 °C	26	6
December	22.7 °C	9.4 °C	15.7 °C	28.7 °C	2.8 °C	5	0

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	8 mm	2	10 h/day	26 %	64 %	11 km/h
February	11 mm	2	11 h/day	27 %	58 %	12 km/h
March	12 mm	2	12 h/day	29 %	51 %	13 km/h
April	8 mm	2	13 h/day	25 %	37 %	14 km/h
May	9 mm	2	14 h/day	17 %	32 %	16 km/h
June	20 mm	4	14 h/day	16 %	41 %	17 km/h
July	54 mm	8	14 h/day	36 %	54 %	17 km/h
August	49 mm	7	13 h/day	37 %	59 %	16 km/h
September	31 mm	4	12 h/day	14 %	56 %	14 km/h
October	6 mm	1	11 h/day	6 %	50 %	11 km/h
November	2 mm	1	11 h/day	13 %	55 %	10 km/h
December	5 mm	1	10 h/day	18 %	61 %	10 km/h

Where Bahawalpur ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Places with the best weather in Asia in February	11th of 50	96/100
Places with the best weather in the world in February	18th of 50	96/100
The driest places in Asia in November	18th of 50	2.3 mm
The warmest places in Asia in June	34th of 50	41 °C
The warmest places in the world in June	34th of 50	41 °C
The warmest places in Asia in May	37th of 50	41 °C

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Bahawalpur’s climate

When is the best time to visit Bahawalpur?

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

How hot does Bahawalpur get?

In June, the warmest month, daily highs average 41 °C. About 227 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 49 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 7.7 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Bahawalpur?

July, averaging 54 mm over 8 days with rain. The driest month is November with 2 mm. The year as a whole averages 216 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 Bahawalpur 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: 29.398°, 71.675° (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.