Climate averages 1991–2020

Bhetia weather
in April.

A very hot, fairly dry month: the 2nd warmest and the 6th driest of the year.

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

Average high 38.1°C Daytime mean, April
Average low 24.0°C Night-time mean, April
Rainfall 28 mm 6 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Bhetia · average highYear overview

April is a very hot month in Bhetia: daytime highs average 38.1°C and nights cool to about 24.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 28 mm of rain on roughly 6 days, which makes April a fairly dry month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 40 min on an average April day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Jamshedpur (5 km away). In April its highs average 38.0°C, about as warm as Bhetia, with 28 mm of rain.

Among the 692 cities listed in India, Bhetia ranks joint 126th of 692 for the warmest April highs and joint 508th of 692 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 692 cities is 36.0°C; Bhetia is 2.1°C warmer than that mean.

From April to May, average highs rise by 0.3°C to 38.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 28 mm to 74 mm.

The annual picture

April 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. 1015202530354045 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 3000

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

Every month, side by side

Bhetia climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Bhetia, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 24.9°C12.3°C12.3°C122.010.911 h
February 28.9°C15.7°C15.7°C132.411.411 h
March 34.2°C19.8°C19.8°C153.212.012 h
April, selected 38.1°C24.0°C24.0°C286.312.713 h
May 38.5°C26.4°C26.4°C7411.313.213 h
June 34.7°C26.8°C26.8°C23520.613.514 h
July 31.0°C25.5°C25.5°C28126.513.413 h
August 30.6°C25.0°C25.0°C28026.812.913 h
September 30.6°C24.4°C24.4°C18821.312.312 h
October 30.1°C21.9°C21.9°C769.111.612 h
November 28.0°C17.3°C17.3°C8.81.311.111 h
December 25.1°C12.8°C12.8°C8.51.010.811 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

April in nearby cities

Distance from Bhetia

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 Bhetia) is explained once on the Bhetia year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.

Jamshedpur lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.