Climate averages 1991–2020
Dimāpur weather
in August.
A hot, very wet month: the 3rd warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a hot month in Dimāpur: daytime highs average 29.5°C and nights cool to about 24.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 227 mm of rain on roughly 23 days, which makes August a very wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 03 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Kohima (47 km away). In August its highs average 24.3°C, 5.2°C cooler than Dimāpur, with 501 mm of rain.
Among the 692 cities listed in India, Dimāpur ranks joint 454th of 692 for the warmest August highs and joint 338th of 692 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 692 cities is 30.2°C; Dimāpur is 0.7°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 0.6°C to 29.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 227 mm to 189 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
Dimāpur climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 21.1°C10.8°C | 10.8°C | 22 | 4.4 | 10.711 h |
| February | 23.6°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 40 | 5.8 | 11.311 h |
| March | 27.3°C16.0°C | 16.0°C | 85 | 9.7 | 12.012 h |
| April | 28.6°C18.9°C | 18.9°C | 203 | 16.3 | 12.813 h |
| May | 29.3°C21.6°C | 21.6°C | 235 | 23.2 | 13.413 h |
| June | 29.9°C24.0°C | 24.0°C | 249 | 23.2 | 13.714 h |
| July | 29.6°C24.5°C | 24.5°C | 238 | 23.1 | 13.614 h |
| August, selected | 29.5°C24.4°C | 24.4°C | 227 | 23.4 | 13.013 h |
| September | 29.0°C23.4°C | 23.4°C | 189 | 20.8 | 12.312 h |
| October | 27.4°C20.4°C | 20.4°C | 102 | 13.6 | 11.612 h |
| November | 24.9°C15.9°C | 15.9°C | 23 | 4.0 | 10.911 h |
| December | 22.1°C12.3°C | 12.3°C | 13 | 2.2 | 10.611 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
- Kohima in AugustIndia · 47 kmHigh 24.3°C · Low 18.5°C · 501 mm rain
- Jorhat in AugustIndia · 106 kmHigh 31.1°C · Low 25.6°C · 427 mm rain
- Nagaon in AugustIndia · 116 kmHigh 31.2°C · Low 25.7°C · 490 mm rain
- Tezpur in AugustIndia · 122 kmHigh 30.5°C · Low 25.6°C · 433 mm rain
- Imphal in AugustIndia · 125 kmHigh 26.4°C · Low 21.3°C · 203 mm rain
- Silchar in AugustIndia · 152 kmHigh 30.3°C · Low 25.0°C · 390 mm rain
- Shillong in AugustIndia · 188 kmHigh 23.5°C · Low 18.9°C · 558 mm rain
- Guwahati in AugustIndia · 200 kmHigh 30.9°C · Low 25.5°C · 610 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 Dimāpur) is explained once on the Dimāpur year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.