Lahore climate

Name: Lahore
Address: PK

Lahore is warmest in May, with average highs of 39 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 6.1 °C. July is the wettest month (156 mm) and November the driest (7.4 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Lahore averages 608 mm of rain and 257 days above 25 °C.

Pakistan · population 13,004,135 · 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 39 °C
Coldest month January 6.1 °C
Driest month November 7 mm
Wettest month July 156 mm
Least cloud October 12 % cloud
Hottest on record May 47 °C
Coldest on record January 0.6 °C

What to expectLahore through the year

Lahore has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 18 °C in January to 39 °C in May, a swing of 21 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 257 days a year reach 25 °C, 202 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 47 °C, in May.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 156 mm against 7 mm in November — 21 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	18.1 °C	29 mm	38 %
February	21.1 °C	42 mm	38 %
March	26.7 °C	36 mm	39 %
April	33.7 °C	28 mm	35 %
May	39.1 °C	19 mm	28 %
June	39.0 °C	66 mm	25 %
July	34.8 °C	156 mm	44 %
August	33.4 °C	140 mm	45 %
September	33.1 °C	61 mm	21 %
October	31.3 °C	14 mm	12 %
November	25.9 °C	7 mm	19 %
December	20.6 °C	11 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	18.1 °C	6.1 °C	11.8 °C	25.9 °C	0.6 °C	0	0
February	21.1 °C	8.6 °C	14.7 °C	29.4 °C	1.7 °C	3	0
March	26.7 °C	13.2 °C	19.9 °C	37.2 °C	5.2 °C	20	7
April	33.7 °C	18.6 °C	26.3 °C	43.7 °C	8.7 °C	29	23
May	39.1 °C	23.6 °C	31.7 °C	47.4 °C	15.3 °C	31	31
June	39.0 °C	26.8 °C	33.2 °C	46.9 °C	20.8 °C	30	30
July	34.8 °C	26.6 °C	30.6 °C	43.3 °C	22.4 °C	31	30
August	33.4 °C	25.9 °C	29.5 °C	39.4 °C	22.0 °C	31	29
September	33.1 °C	23.8 °C	28.3 °C	39.5 °C	16.8 °C	30	28
October	31.3 °C	18.4 °C	24.6 °C	37.1 °C	11.6 °C	30	23
November	25.9 °C	12.5 °C	18.8 °C	31.9 °C	5.8 °C	20	1
December	20.6 °C	7.6 °C	13.7 °C	26.7 °C	2.0 °C	1	0

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	29 mm	4	10 h/day	38 %	73 %	11 km/h
February	42 mm	5	11 h/day	38 %	69 %	12 km/h
March	36 mm	5	12 h/day	39 %	61 %	13 km/h
April	28 mm	5	13 h/day	35 %	45 %	15 km/h
May	19 mm	5	14 h/day	28 %	35 %	15 km/h
June	66 mm	9	14 h/day	25 %	48 %	14 km/h
July	156 mm	18	14 h/day	44 %	73 %	13 km/h
August	140 mm	18	13 h/day	45 %	78 %	11 km/h
September	61 mm	9	12 h/day	21 %	73 %	11 km/h
October	14 mm	2	11 h/day	12 %	59 %	10 km/h
November	7 mm	1	11 h/day	19 %	63 %	10 km/h
December	11 mm	2	10 h/day	26 %	68 %	10 km/h

How Lahore 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
Lahore	39 °C	6.1 °C	608 mm	257
Muridke · Pakistan	39 °C	5.9 °C	706 mm	254
Shekhupura · Pakistan	39 °C	6.1 °C	655 mm	259
Kamoke · Pakistan	39 °C	5.7 °C	826 mm	250
Kasur · Pakistan	39 °C	6.0 °C	549 mm	263
Amritsar · India	39 °C	5.7 °C	767 mm	251
Gujranwala · Pakistan	39 °C	5.8 °C	935 mm	247

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Lahore’s climate

When is the best time to visit Lahore?

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

How hot does Lahore get?

In May, the warmest month, daily highs average 39 °C. About 202 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 47 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 6.1 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Lahore?

July, averaging 156 mm over 18 days with rain. The driest month is November with 7 mm. The year as a whole averages 608 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 Lahore 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: 31.558°, 74.351° (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.