Climate averages 1991–2020
Bālurghāt weather
in August.
A hot, very wet month: the joint 4th warmest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a hot month in Bālurghāt: daytime highs average 31.2°C and nights cool to about 25.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 303 mm of rain on roughly 28 days, which makes August a very wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 01 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Joypur Hāt (28 km away). In August its highs average 31.2°C, about as warm as Bālurghāt, with 290 mm of rain.
Among the 692 cities listed in India, Bālurghāt ranks joint 267th 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; Bālurghāt is 1.0°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 0.5°C to 30.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 303 mm to 282 mm.
The annual picture
August in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Bālurghāt climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 23.0°C12.1°C | 12.1°C | 14 | 1.9 | 10.811 h |
| February | 26.4°C14.5°C | 14.5°C | 17 | 2.4 | 11.311 h |
| March | 31.2°C19.0°C | 19.0°C | 26 | 4.0 | 12.012 h |
| April | 33.1°C22.5°C | 22.5°C | 100 | 11.7 | 12.713 h |
| May | 32.2°C24.1°C | 24.1°C | 270 | 21.5 | 13.413 h |
| June | 31.6°C25.5°C | 25.5°C | 404 | 25.9 | 13.714 h |
| July | 31.2°C25.8°C | 25.8°C | 361 | 28.6 | 13.514 h |
| August, selected | 31.2°C25.7°C | 25.7°C | 303 | 28.0 | 13.013 h |
| September | 30.8°C24.9°C | 24.9°C | 282 | 25.0 | 12.312 h |
| October | 29.9°C22.3°C | 22.3°C | 134 | 11.4 | 11.612 h |
| November | 27.7°C17.6°C | 17.6°C | 10 | 0.9 | 10.911 h |
| December | 24.5°C13.7°C | 13.7°C | 5.5 | 0.8 | 10.611 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
- Joypur Hāt in AugustBangladesh · 28 kmHigh 31.2°C · Low 25.6°C · 290 mm rain
- Mohammadpur in AugustBangladesh · 44 kmHigh 31.4°C · Low 25.8°C · 286 mm rain
- Dinajpur in AugustBangladesh · 47 kmHigh 31.2°C · Low 25.6°C · 376 mm rain
- Pār Naogaon in AugustBangladesh · 49 kmHigh 31.4°C · Low 25.7°C · 284 mm rain
- Shibganj in AugustBangladesh · 60 kmHigh 31.2°C · Low 25.6°C · 297 mm rain
- Saidpur in AugustBangladesh · 63 kmHigh 31.1°C · Low 25.6°C · 363 mm rain
- Malda in AugustIndia · 68 kmHigh 31.3°C · Low 25.9°C · 297 mm rain
- Bogra in AugustBangladesh · 73 kmHigh 31.3°C · Low 25.7°C · 290 mm rain
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 limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Bālurghāt) is explained once on the Bālurghāt year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.