Climate averages 1991–2020

Aizawl weather
in August.

A warm, very wet month: the 5th warmest and the 11th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 24.7°C Daytime mean, August
Average low 18.7°C Night-time mean, August
Rainfall 303 mm 30 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Aizawl · average highYear overview

August is a warm month in Aizawl: daytime highs average 24.7°C and nights cool to about 18.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 303 mm of rain on roughly 30 days, which makes August a very wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 57 min on an average August day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Silchar (122 km away). In August its highs average 30.3°C, 5.6°C warmer than Aizawl, with 390 mm of rain.

Among the 692 cities listed in India, Aizawl ranks joint 678th of 692 for the warmest August highs and joint 547th of 692 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 692 cities is 30.2°C; Aizawl is 5.6°C cooler than that mean.

From August to September, average highs fall by 0.1°C to 24.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 303 mm to 261 mm.

The annual picture

August in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. 051015202530 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 3500

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Aizawl climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Aizawl, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 19.0°C5.5°C5.5°C9.91.810.811 h
February 21.7°C8.1°C8.1°C203.411.311 h
March 25.3°C12.1°C12.1°C526.912.012 h
April 27.2°C15.5°C15.5°C8612.312.713 h
May 26.5°C17.6°C17.6°C22422.313.313 h
June 25.4°C18.8°C18.8°C29727.613.614 h
July 24.6°C18.8°C18.8°C30629.413.413 h
August, selected 24.7°C18.7°C18.7°C30329.613.013 h
September 24.6°C18.1°C18.1°C26127.312.312 h
October 23.9°C16.0°C16.0°C15820.611.612 h
November 21.9°C11.5°C11.5°C405.311.011 h
December 19.6°C7.1°C7.1°C141.510.711 h

Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.

Compare places

August in nearby cities

Distance from Aizawl

Read the numbers correctly

Climate, not a promise.

These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.

Sources, method and limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Aizawl) is explained once on the Aizawl year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.