Climate averages 1991–2020

Cuddalore weather
in August.

A hot, moderately wet month: the joint 4th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.

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

Average high 32.2°C Daytime mean, August

Average low 26.8°C Night-time mean, August

Rainfall 87 mm 14 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

August is a hot month in Cuddalore: daytime highs average 32.2°C and nights cool to about 26.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 4th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 87 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes August a moderately wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 31 min on an average August day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Puducherry (21 km away). In August its highs average 32.3°C, about as warm as Cuddalore, with 88 mm of rain.

Among the 692 cities listed in India, Cuddalore ranks joint 99th of 692 for the warmest August highs and joint 38th of 692 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 692 cities is 30.2°C; Cuddalore is 2.0°C warmer than that mean.

From August to September, average highs fall by 0.6°C to 31.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 87 mm to 92 mm.

The annual picture

August in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

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

Every month, side by side

Cuddalore climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Cuddalore, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	27.1°C22.3°C	22.3°C	20	4.4	11.512 h
February	28.5°C22.8°C	22.8°C	11	2.6	11.712 h
March	30.5°C24.3°C	24.3°C	15	2.4	12.112 h
April	32.2°C26.8°C	26.8°C	26	4.3	12.412 h
May	33.6°C28.1°C	28.1°C	39	5.4	12.713 h
June	33.4°C27.8°C	27.8°C	44	9.6	12.813 h
July	32.9°C27.2°C	27.2°C	56	11.8	12.713 h
August, selected	32.2°C26.8°C	26.8°C	87	13.5	12.513 h
September	31.7°C26.4°C	26.4°C	92	14.6	12.212 h
October	29.8°C25.3°C	25.3°C	215	19.2	11.912 h
November	27.7°C24.0°C	24.0°C	288	19.0	11.612 h
December	26.9°C23.0°C	23.0°C	157	11.3	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.

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August in nearby cities

Distance from Cuddalore

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