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Delhi weather by month

Delhi runs from about 10°C in January to 35°C in June, with August the wettest month at 320 mm.

warmest month

June

35°C

coolest month

January

10°C

wettest month

August

320 mm

worst air month

December

127 µg/m³

The whole year, month by month.

Monthly climate normals for Delhi
MonthAvg tempRainSunPM2.5
January10°C10 mm238 h121
February16°C6 mm278 h81
March21°C38 mm339 h76
April29°C4 mm332 h73
May34°C1 mm347 h103
June35°C54 mm301 h102
July31°C189 mm280 h57
August28°C320 mm251 h63
September28°C301 mm267 h42
October26°C0 mm334 h70
November21°C0 mm293 h101
December15°C42 mm268 h127

About 3,528 hours of sun a year. Roughly 94 rainy days a year.

These are long-run climate normals, not a forecast. A given year can sit well outside them. PM2.5 is a global model: near the coast it counts sea salt as fine particulate and reads high against ground stations, sometimes by a factor of two. Use the shape of the year, not the absolute number.

where these numbers come from

  • · Temperature, rainfall and sunshine: ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis climate normals via Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0), fetched once and stored.
  • · PM2.5: Copernicus CAMS reanalysis, monthly means. Modelled, not station readings; near coasts CAMS counts sea salt as PM2.5 and reads high.

Last reviewed 2026-05-22. Full method, licences and the list of sources we rejected are on the methodology page.