Climate averages 1991–2020

Dārjiling weather
in January.

A cool, fairly dry month: the coolest and the 2nd driest of the year.

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

Average high 10.9°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 2.6°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 33 mm 7 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 11 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a cool month in Dārjiling: daytime highs average 10.9°C and nights cool to about 2.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 33 mm of rain on roughly 7 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 39 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Siliguri (39 km away). In January its highs average 21.5°C, 10.7°C warmer than Dārjiling, with 19 mm of rain.

Among the 692 cities listed in India, Dārjiling ranks joint 687th of 692 for the warmest January highs and joint 639th of 692 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 692 cities is 25.0°C; Dārjiling is 14.1°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 1.7°C to 12.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 33 mm to 71 mm.

The annual picture

January 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

Dārjiling climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Dārjiling, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	10.9°C2.6°C	2.6°C	33	7.1	10.611 h
February	12.5°C3.8°C	3.8°C	71	12.6	11.211 h
March	16.0°C6.2°C	6.2°C	137	18.7	12.012 h
April	18.6°C9.2°C	9.2°C	222	22.8	12.813 h
May	19.7°C12.3°C	12.3°C	377	29.0	13.513 h
June	20.5°C15.1°C	15.1°C	618	29.4	13.814 h
July	20.1°C16.0°C	16.0°C	864	30.6	13.714 h
August	20.4°C15.8°C	15.8°C	548	29.7	13.113 h
September	19.7°C14.5°C	14.5°C	416	27.3	12.312 h
October	18.1°C10.8°C	10.8°C	164	19.1	11.512 h
November	15.1°C7.1°C	7.1°C	35	7.8	10.811 h
December	12.4°C4.2°C	4.2°C	17	3.9	10.510 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

January in nearby cities

Distance from Dārjiling

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