Climate averages 1991–2020
Jalpāiguri weather
in May.
A hot, very wet month: the 4th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a hot month in Jalpāiguri: daytime highs average 30.2°C and nights cool to about 22.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 293 mm of rain on roughly 23 days, which makes May a very wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 26 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Siliguri (37 km away). In May its highs average 29.8°C, about as warm as Jalpāiguri, with 231 mm of rain.
Among the 692 cities listed in India, Jalpāiguri ranks joint 656th of 692 for the warmest May highs and 676th of 692 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 692 cities is 37.3°C; Jalpāiguri is 7.1°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 0.4°C to 29.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 293 mm to 701 mm.
The annual picture
May 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
Jalpāiguri climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 22.5°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 10 | 1.4 | 10.711 h |
| February | 25.4°C14.0°C | 14.0°C | 12 | 2.0 | 11.211 h |
| March | 30.4°C18.0°C | 18.0°C | 26 | 4.3 | 12.012 h |
| April | 31.7°C21.0°C | 21.0°C | 89 | 12.5 | 12.813 h |
| May, selected | 30.2°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 293 | 23.4 | 13.413 h |
| June | 29.9°C24.4°C | 24.4°C | 701 | 28.7 | 13.814 h |
| July | 29.9°C25.0°C | 25.0°C | 827 | 30.6 | 13.614 h |
| August | 30.3°C25.0°C | 25.0°C | 669 | 30.2 | 13.113 h |
| September | 29.7°C24.2°C | 24.2°C | 468 | 25.7 | 12.312 h |
| October | 29.1°C21.2°C | 21.2°C | 145 | 9.2 | 11.612 h |
| November | 27.1°C17.0°C | 17.0°C | 5.1 | 0.7 | 10.911 h |
| December | 24.2°C13.3°C | 13.3°C | 3.4 | 0.6 | 10.511 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
May in nearby cities
- Siliguri in MayIndia · 37 kmHigh 29.8°C · Low 22.1°C · 231 mm rain
- Thākurgaon in MayBangladesh · 60 kmHigh 31.1°C · Low 23.3°C · 271 mm rain
- Jaigaon in MayIndia · 74 kmHigh 28.4°C · Low 22.3°C · 255 mm rain
- Dārjiling in MayIndia · 74 kmHigh 19.7°C · Low 12.3°C · 377 mm rain
- Koch Bihār in MayIndia · 74 kmHigh 29.8°C · Low 23.0°C · 561 mm rain
- Saidpur in MayBangladesh · 84 kmHigh 31.0°C · Low 23.4°C · 366 mm rain
- Kishanganj in MayIndia · 90 kmHigh 31.8°C · Low 23.7°C · 215 mm rain
- Gangtok in MayIndia · 91 kmHigh 20.2°C · Low 13.0°C · 283 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 Jalpāiguri) is explained once on the Jalpāiguri year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.