Climate averages 1991–2020
Ooty weather
in April.
A warm, moderately wet month: the warmest and the 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a warm month in Ooty: daytime highs average 22.8°C and nights cool to about 13.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 85 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes April a moderately wet month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 23 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Idaiyarpālaiyam (48 km away). In April its highs average 34.2°C, 11.5°C warmer than Ooty, with 40 mm of rain.
Among the 692 cities listed in India, Ooty ranks 684th of 692 for the warmest April highs and 648th of 692 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 692 cities is 36.0°C; Ooty is 13.2°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs fall by 0.5°C to 22.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 85 mm to 161 mm.
The annual picture
April 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
Ooty climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 19.9°C10.1°C | 10.1°C | 20 | 4.8 | 11.512 h |
| February | 20.9°C10.5°C | 10.5°C | 24 | 5.0 | 11.812 h |
| March | 22.4°C12.1°C | 12.1°C | 44 | 7.5 | 12.112 h |
| April, selected | 22.8°C13.7°C | 13.7°C | 85 | 15.0 | 12.412 h |
| May | 22.3°C14.5°C | 14.5°C | 161 | 23.2 | 12.613 h |
| June | 20.2°C14.2°C | 14.2°C | 205 | 23.7 | 12.813 h |
| July | 19.2°C13.6°C | 13.6°C | 202 | 24.7 | 12.713 h |
| August | 19.4°C13.3°C | 13.3°C | 179 | 22.9 | 12.512 h |
| September | 19.9°C13.1°C | 13.1°C | 145 | 20.8 | 12.212 h |
| October | 19.5°C12.8°C | 12.8°C | 196 | 22.1 | 11.912 h |
| November | 19.0°C12.1°C | 12.1°C | 134 | 16.3 | 11.612 h |
| December | 19.2°C11.0°C | 11.0°C | 58 | 8.3 | 11.511 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
April in nearby cities
- Idaiyarpālaiyam in AprilIndia · 48 kmHigh 34.2°C · Low 23.4°C · 40 mm rain
- Coimbatore in AprilIndia · 54 kmHigh 35.1°C · Low 23.9°C · 40 mm rain
- Manjeri in AprilIndia · 71 kmHigh 32.1°C · Low 24.4°C · 130 mm rain
- Palakkad in AprilIndia · 71 kmHigh 35.7°C · Low 25.2°C · 52 mm rain
- Velampālaiyam in AprilIndia · 74 kmHigh 36.2°C · Low 24.8°C · 46 mm rain
- Malappuram in AprilIndia · 79 kmHigh 32.3°C · Low 24.7°C · 130 mm rain
- Tiruppur in AprilIndia · 79 kmHigh 36.6°C · Low 25.2°C · 66 mm rain
- Pollachi in AprilIndia · 91 kmHigh 34.9°C · Low 24.0°C · 46 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 Ooty) is explained once on the Ooty year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.