Rawalpindi climate

Name: Rawalpindi
Address: PK

Rawalpindi is warmest in June, with average highs of 36 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 3.5 °C. August is the wettest month (184 mm) and December the driest (28 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Rawalpindi averages 962 mm of rain, 217 days above 25 °C and 3 days below freezing.

Pakistan · population 3,357,612 · 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 36 °C
Coldest month January 3.5 °C
Driest month December 28 mm
Wettest month August 184 mm
Least cloud October 17 % cloud
Hottest on record June 45 °C
Coldest on record January -2.9 °C

What to expectRawalpindi through the year

Rawalpindi has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 16 °C in January to 36 °C in June, a swing of 21 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 217 days a year reach 25 °C, 150 of them reach 30 °C, 3 nights drop below freezing. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 45 °C, in June.

Rain is strongly seasonal. August averages 184 mm against 28 mm in December — 6.6 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	15.8 °C	60 mm	41 %
February	17.9 °C	104 mm	47 %
March	22.6 °C	104 mm	49 %
April	28.4 °C	69 mm	45 %
May	34.2 °C	32 mm	34 %
June	36.4 °C	63 mm	25 %
July	33.1 °C	182 mm	40 %
August	31.6 °C	184 mm	40 %
September	31.2 °C	78 mm	22 %
October	28.6 °C	28 mm	17 %
November	22.7 °C	29 mm	25 %
December	18.2 °C	28 mm	31 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C	Days below 0 °C
January	15.8 °C	3.5 °C	9.2 °C	23.4 °C	-2.9 °C	0	0	2
February	17.9 °C	5.8 °C	11.7 °C	25.9 °C	-1.2 °C	0	0	0
March	22.6 °C	9.9 °C	16.2 °C	34.8 °C	1.7 °C	8	1	0
April	28.4 °C	14.7 °C	21.7 °C	39.2 °C	5.1 °C	23	11	0
May	34.2 °C	19.5 °C	27.3 °C	42.9 °C	10.8 °C	30	26	0
June	36.4 °C	23.5 °C	30.4 °C	44.7 °C	16.9 °C	30	29	0
July	33.1 °C	24.4 °C	28.8 °C	43.4 °C	19.3 °C	31	27	0
August	31.6 °C	23.5 °C	27.4 °C	38.0 °C	19.0 °C	31	25	0
September	31.2 °C	20.7 °C	25.8 °C	37.6 °C	13.0 °C	30	22	0
October	28.6 °C	15.1 °C	21.5 °C	35.3 °C	8.2 °C	28	10	0
November	22.7 °C	9.4 °C	15.5 °C	28.7 °C	2.9 °C	6	0	0
December	18.2 °C	5.1 °C	10.9 °C	24.1 °C	-1.6 °C	0	0	0

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	60 mm	6	10 h/day	41 %	69 %	11 km/h
February	104 mm	8	11 h/day	47 %	68 %	12 km/h
March	104 mm	9	12 h/day	49 %	64 %	13 km/h
April	69 mm	7	13 h/day	45 %	56 %	13 km/h
May	32 mm	6	14 h/day	34 %	44 %	14 km/h
June	63 mm	8	14 h/day	25 %	47 %	13 km/h
July	182 mm	19	14 h/day	40 %	71 %	12 km/h
August	184 mm	18	13 h/day	40 %	78 %	11 km/h
September	78 mm	9	12 h/day	22 %	69 %	10 km/h
October	28 mm	4	11 h/day	17 %	56 %	10 km/h
November	29 mm	3	10 h/day	25 %	62 %	10 km/h
December	28 mm	3	9.9 h/day	31 %	67 %	10 km/h

How Rawalpindi 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
Rawalpindi	36 °C	3.5 °C	962 mm	217
Islamabad · Pakistan	36 °C	4.0 °C	1,007 mm	210
Abbottabad · Pakistan	30 °C	-0.8 °C	1,456 mm	154
Dhirkot · Pakistan	27 °C	-4.7 °C	1,548 mm	75
Tordher · Pakistan	38 °C	4.1 °C	1,148 mm	218
Muzaffarābād · Pakistan	32 °C	-0.7 °C	1,271 mm	188
Jhelum · Pakistan	38 °C	5.1 °C	1,026 mm	241

Where Rawalpindi ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Places with the best weather in Asia in November	44th of 50	95/100

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Rawalpindi’s climate

When is the best time to visit Rawalpindi?

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

How hot does Rawalpindi get?

In June, the warmest month, daily highs average 36 °C. About 150 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 45 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 3.5 °C in January, the coldest month. A normal year has 3 nights below freezing.

Which month is wettest in Rawalpindi?

August, averaging 184 mm over 18 days with rain. The driest month is December with 28 mm. The year as a whole averages 962 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 Rawalpindi 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: 33.597°, 73.048° (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.