Climate averages 1991–2020
Chennai weather
in February.
A hot, very dry month: the 9th warmest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
February is a hot month in Chennai: daytime highs average 30.1°C and nights cool to about 21.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 6.4 mm of rain on roughly 2 days, which makes February a very dry month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 42 min on an average February day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Tiruvottiyūr (8 km away). In February its highs average 29.9°C, about as warm as Chennai, with 5.6 mm of rain.
Among the 692 cities listed in India, Chennai ranks joint 255th of 692 for the warmest February highs and joint 229th of 692 for the driest February (rainfall, lowest first). The mean February high of those 692 cities is 28.0°C; Chennai is 2.1°C warmer than that mean.
From February to March, average highs rise by 2.6°C to 32.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 6.4 mm to 8.2 mm.
The annual picture
February 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
Chennai climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 27.9°C20.9°C | 20.9°C | 14 | 3.1 | 11.411 h |
| February, selected | 30.1°C21.3°C | 21.3°C | 6.4 | 1.5 | 11.712 h |
| March | 32.7°C23.2°C | 23.2°C | 8.2 | 1.3 | 12.112 h |
| April | 34.7°C26.2°C | 26.2°C | 15 | 2.4 | 12.412 h |
| May | 36.6°C28.1°C | 28.1°C | 38 | 3.8 | 12.713 h |
| June | 35.5°C27.8°C | 27.8°C | 66 | 10.8 | 12.913 h |
| July | 34.2°C27.0°C | 27.0°C | 70 | 13.9 | 12.813 h |
| August | 33.3°C26.4°C | 26.4°C | 94 | 14.7 | 12.613 h |
| September | 32.6°C26.0°C | 26.0°C | 102 | 16.1 | 12.212 h |
| October | 30.6°C24.7°C | 24.7°C | 208 | 19.3 | 11.812 h |
| November | 28.5°C23.4°C | 23.4°C | 227 | 16.4 | 11.512 h |
| December | 27.4°C22.1°C | 22.1°C | 117 | 9.1 | 11.411 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
February in nearby cities
- Tiruvottiyūr in FebruaryIndia · 8 kmHigh 29.9°C · Low 21.4°C · 5.6 mm rain
- Neelankarai in FebruaryIndia · 16 kmHigh 29.7°C · Low 21.7°C · 6.4 mm rain
- Avadi in FebruaryIndia · 19 kmHigh 30.7°C · Low 20.3°C · 6.5 mm rain
- Pallāvaram in FebruaryIndia · 19 kmHigh 29.8°C · Low 21.2°C · 6.4 mm rain
- Tambaram in FebruaryIndia · 24 kmHigh 30.2°C · Low 21.1°C · 6.4 mm rain
- Maraimalainagar in FebruaryIndia · 42 kmHigh 30.3°C · Low 20.9°C · 7.0 mm rain
- Arakkonam in FebruaryIndia · 66 kmHigh 31.6°C · Low 19.2°C · 6.3 mm rain
- Kanchipuram in FebruaryIndia · 69 kmHigh 31.5°C · Low 19.8°C · 7.4 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 Chennai) is explained once on the Chennai year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Pallāvaram, Tambaram and Neelankarai lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.