Climate averages 1991–2020

Shillong weather
in July.

A warm, very wet month: one of the warmest and the wettest of the year.

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

Average high 23.5°C Daytime mean, July

Average low 19.1°C Night-time mean, July

Rainfall 715 mm 31 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 14 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

July is a warm month in Shillong: daytime highs average 23.5°C and nights cool to about 19.1°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the warmest months of the year.

Expect about 715 mm of rain on roughly 31 days, which makes July a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 34 min on an average July day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Guwahati (70 km away). In July its highs average 30.6°C, 7.1°C warmer than Shillong, with 671 mm of rain.

Among the 692 cities listed in India, Shillong ranks 686th of 692 for the warmest July highs and 680th of 692 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 692 cities is 31.0°C; Shillong is 7.6°C cooler than that mean.

From July to August, average highs stay level at 23.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 715 mm to 558 mm.

The annual picture

July 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

Shillong climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Shillong, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	15.7°C6.8°C	6.8°C	22	4.4	10.711 h
February	17.6°C8.3°C	8.3°C	43	7.7	11.311 h
March	20.6°C11.3°C	11.3°C	119	15.9	12.012 h
April	22.0°C14.2°C	14.2°C	275	25.9	12.713 h
May	22.8°C16.5°C	16.5°C	453	30.1	13.413 h
June	23.5°C18.6°C	18.6°C	697	29.8	13.714 h
July, selected	23.5°C19.1°C	19.1°C	715	31.0	13.614 h
August	23.5°C18.9°C	18.9°C	558	30.9	13.013 h
September	23.0°C18.0°C	18.0°C	393	28.8	12.312 h
October	21.7°C15.3°C	15.3°C	224	20.2	11.612 h
November	19.3°C11.5°C	11.5°C	47	6.6	10.911 h
December	16.9°C8.5°C	8.5°C	16	2.6	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

July in nearby cities

Distance from Shillong

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