Climate averages 1991–2020
Delhi weather
in August.
A hot, wet month: the 6th warmest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a hot month in Delhi: daytime highs average 32.1°C and nights cool to about 25.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 176 mm of rain on roughly 20 days, which makes August a wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 10 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is New Delhi (4 km away). In August its highs average 32.3°C, about as warm as Delhi, with 178 mm of rain.
Among the 692 cities listed in India, Delhi ranks joint 111th of 692 for the warmest August highs and joint 218th of 692 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 692 cities is 30.2°C; Delhi is 1.9°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs rise by 0.1°C to 32.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 176 mm to 99 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
Delhi climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 19.8°C7.7°C | 7.7°C | 26 | 2.6 | 10.511 h |
| February | 23.3°C10.4°C | 10.4°C | 36 | 3.8 | 11.211 h |
| March | 29.2°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 24 | 3.5 | 12.012 h |
| April | 36.1°C20.7°C | 20.7°C | 15 | 3.2 | 12.813 h |
| May | 39.5°C25.3°C | 25.3°C | 19 | 5.3 | 13.614 h |
| June | 38.2°C27.8°C | 27.8°C | 69 | 9.7 | 13.914 h |
| July | 33.6°C26.8°C | 26.8°C | 192 | 19.6 | 13.814 h |
| August, selected | 32.1°C25.9°C | 25.9°C | 176 | 19.8 | 13.213 h |
| September | 32.2°C24.1°C | 24.1°C | 99 | 10.3 | 12.412 h |
| October | 31.7°C19.2°C | 19.2°C | 14 | 2.1 | 11.512 h |
| November | 27.0°C14.0°C | 14.0°C | 5.2 | 1.1 | 10.811 h |
| December | 22.0°C9.2°C | 9.2°C | 7.1 | 1.2 | 10.410 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
- New Delhi in AugustIndia · 4 kmHigh 32.3°C · Low 26.0°C · 178 mm rain
- Mandoli in AugustIndia · 10 kmHigh 32.2°C · Low 25.9°C · 176 mm rain
- Burāri in AugustIndia · 12 kmHigh 32.3°C · Low 26.0°C · 176 mm rain
- Loni in AugustIndia · 12 kmHigh 32.2°C · Low 25.9°C · 176 mm rain
- Noida in AugustIndia · 13 kmHigh 32.2°C · Low 26.0°C · 178 mm rain
- Deoli in AugustIndia · 17 kmHigh 32.1°C · Low 25.9°C · 178 mm rain
- Kirāri Sulemānnagar in AugustIndia · 17 kmHigh 32.3°C · Low 26.0°C · 166 mm rain
- Hashtsāl in AugustIndia · 17 kmHigh 32.4°C · Low 26.1°C · 166 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 Delhi) is explained once on the Delhi year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Loni, Burāri and Mandoli lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.