Climate averages 1991–2020
Howrah weather
in March.
A hot, fairly dry month: the 3rd warmest and the 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a hot month in Howrah: daytime highs average 33.2°C and nights cool to about 21.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 30 mm of rain on roughly 4 days, which makes March a fairly dry month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 00 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Kolkata (5 km away). In March its highs average 33.0°C, about as warm as Howrah, with 30 mm of rain.
Among the 692 cities listed in India, Howrah ranks joint 286th of 692 for the warmest March highs and joint 578th of 692 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 692 cities is 32.4°C; Howrah is 0.8°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 2.3°C to 35.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 30 mm to 68 mm.
The annual picture
March 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
Howrah climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 25.1°C13.2°C | 13.2°C | 13 | 1.7 | 10.911 h |
| February | 28.7°C16.6°C | 16.6°C | 24 | 2.6 | 11.411 h |
| March, selected | 33.2°C21.6°C | 21.6°C | 30 | 4.2 | 12.012 h |
| April | 35.5°C25.3°C | 25.3°C | 68 | 8.6 | 12.713 h |
| May | 35.2°C27.0°C | 27.0°C | 122 | 11.7 | 13.213 h |
| June | 33.0°C27.1°C | 27.1°C | 265 | 21.8 | 13.513 h |
| July | 31.1°C26.2°C | 26.2°C | 348 | 28.6 | 13.413 h |
| August | 30.9°C25.9°C | 25.9°C | 308 | 29.2 | 12.913 h |
| September | 30.8°C25.4°C | 25.4°C | 250 | 24.9 | 12.312 h |
| October | 30.2°C23.2°C | 23.2°C | 131 | 12.9 | 11.612 h |
| November | 28.5°C18.7°C | 18.7°C | 29 | 2.1 | 11.111 h |
| December | 25.8°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 10 | 1.0 | 10.811 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
March in nearby cities
- Kolkata in MarchIndia · 5 kmHigh 33.0°C · Low 21.6°C · 30 mm rain
- Maheshtala in MarchIndia · 10 kmHigh 33.2°C · Low 21.8°C · 30 mm rain
- Pānihāti in MarchIndia · 14 kmHigh 33.1°C · Low 21.4°C · 30 mm rain
- Rishra in MarchIndia · 17 kmHigh 33.2°C · Low 21.3°C · 30 mm rain
- Budge Budge in MarchIndia · 18 kmHigh 33.2°C · Low 21.7°C · 30 mm rain
- Rajpur Sonarpur in MarchIndia · 19 kmHigh 33.2°C · Low 22.0°C · 33 mm rain
- Shrīrāmpur in MarchIndia · 20 kmHigh 33.1°C · Low 21.0°C · 30 mm rain
- Bārāsat in MarchIndia · 23 kmHigh 33.1°C · Low 21.5°C · 31 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 Howrah) is explained once on the Howrah year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Kolkata, Maheshtala and Budge Budge lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.