Climate averages 1991–2020

Lucknow weather
in August.

A hot, very wet month: the 5th warmest and the 11th driest of the year.

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

Average high 31.5°C Daytime mean, August

Average low 25.9°C Night-time mean, August

Rainfall 255 mm 25 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

August is a hot month in Lucknow: daytime highs average 31.5°C and nights cool to about 25.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 255 mm of rain on roughly 25 days, which makes August a very wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 05 min on an average August day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Nawābganj, India (29 km away). In August its highs average 31.4°C, about as warm as Lucknow, with 257 mm of rain.

Among the 692 cities listed in India, Lucknow ranks joint 189th of 692 for the warmest August highs and joint 410th of 692 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 692 cities is 30.2°C; Lucknow is 1.2°C warmer than that mean.

From August to September, average highs fall by 0.2°C to 31.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 255 mm to 156 mm.

The annual picture

August 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

Lucknow climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Lucknow, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	21.3°C9.3°C	9.3°C	22	2.6	10.711 h
February	25.0°C12.3°C	12.3°C	22	2.7	11.211 h
March	31.1°C17.0°C	17.0°C	15	2.3	12.012 h
April	37.3°C22.5°C	22.5°C	8.4	2.3	12.813 h
May	39.4°C26.3°C	26.3°C	16	3.9	13.513 h
June	37.2°C27.8°C	27.8°C	124	11.5	13.814 h
July	32.4°C26.4°C	26.4°C	298	24.5	13.714 h
August, selected	31.5°C25.9°C	25.9°C	255	24.8	13.113 h
September	31.3°C24.6°C	24.6°C	156	15.7	12.312 h
October	31.0°C20.1°C	20.1°C	33	2.8	11.512 h
November	27.6°C15.0°C	15.0°C	2.2	0.6	10.911 h
December	23.0°C10.6°C	10.6°C	9.2	0.9	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

August in nearby cities

Distance from Lucknow

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