Climate averages 1991–2020

Malda weather
in January.

A warm, fairly dry month: the coolest and the 3rd driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule

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

Average high 22.9°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 12.2°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 16 mm 2 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 11 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Malda: daytime highs average 22.9°C and nights cool to about 12.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 16 mm of rain on roughly 2 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 46 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Mohammadpur (40 km away). In January its highs average 22.9°C, about as warm as Malda, with 16 mm of rain.

Among the 692 cities listed in India, Malda ranks joint 433rd of 692 for the warmest January highs and joint 449th of 692 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 692 cities is 25.0°C; Malda is 2.1°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 3.6°C to 26.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 16 mm to 18 mm.

The annual picture

January 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

Malda climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Malda, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	22.9°C12.2°C	12.2°C	16	1.8	10.811 h
February	26.4°C14.8°C	14.8°C	18	2.3	11.311 h
March	31.7°C19.3°C	19.3°C	23	3.3	12.012 h
April	34.5°C23.0°C	23.0°C	61	8.5	12.713 h
May	33.7°C24.8°C	24.8°C	171	17.2	13.313 h
June	32.4°C26.0°C	26.0°C	318	24.2	13.714 h
July	31.3°C26.0°C	26.0°C	337	28.5	13.514 h
August	31.3°C25.9°C	25.9°C	297	27.9	13.013 h
September	30.8°C25.1°C	25.1°C	273	24.2	12.312 h
October	29.9°C22.6°C	22.6°C	110	10.1	11.612 h
November	27.7°C17.7°C	17.7°C	9.3	0.7	11.011 h
December	24.4°C13.9°C	13.9°C	5.6	0.8	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

January in nearby cities

Distance from Malda

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