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Dhaka weather by month

Dhaka runs from about 17°C in January to 31°C in April, with August the wettest month at 477 mm.

warmest month

April

31°C

coolest month

January

17°C

wettest month

August

477 mm

worst air month

January

90 µg/m³

The whole year, month by month.

Monthly climate normals for Dhaka
MonthAvg tempRainSunPM2.5
January17°C1 mm301 h90
February21°C17 mm286 h78
March25°C66 mm304 h63
April31°C7 mm326 h39
May30°C278 mm306 h39
June30°C257 mm252 h35
July29°C203 mm276 h22
August28°C477 mm217 h21
September29°C272 mm261 h28
October27°C315 mm273 h47
November24°C2 mm307 h60
December21°C1 mm296 h68

About 3,405 hours of sun a year. Roughly 171 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 2026-05-23. Full method, licences and the list of sources we rejected are on the methodology page.