Climate averages 1991–2020

Tellicherry weather
in August.

A warm, very wet month: the 11th warmest and the 10th driest of the year.

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

Average high 26.7°C Daytime mean, August
Average low 23.3°C Night-time mean, August
Rainfall 423 mm 28 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Tellicherry · average highYear overview

August is a warm month in Tellicherry: daytime highs average 26.7°C and nights cool to about 23.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 423 mm of rain on roughly 28 days, which makes August a very wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 31 min on an average August day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Badagara (19 km away). In August its highs average 26.7°C, about as warm as Tellicherry, with 457 mm of rain.

Among the 692 cities listed in India, Tellicherry ranks joint 647th of 692 for the warmest August highs and 664th of 692 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 692 cities is 30.2°C; Tellicherry is 3.5°C cooler than that mean.

From August to September, average highs rise by 0.8°C to 27.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 423 mm to 255 mm.

The annual picture

August in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. 1520253035 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 7000

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Tellicherry climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Tellicherry, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 30.2°C21.5°C21.5°C5.21.211.512 h
February 31.0°C22.4°C22.4°C5.11.311.712 h
March 31.7°C24.1°C24.1°C224.612.112 h
April 31.3°C25.2°C25.2°C10116.412.412 h
May 30.1°C25.2°C25.2°C24621.312.713 h
June 27.2°C24.1°C24.1°C69129.212.813 h
July 26.5°C23.4°C23.4°C63930.312.713 h
August, selected 26.7°C23.3°C23.3°C42327.812.513 h
September 27.6°C23.3°C23.3°C25521.712.212 h
October 28.1°C23.4°C23.4°C26624.111.912 h
November 28.9°C23.0°C23.0°C11615.711.612 h
December 29.4°C21.8°C21.8°C345.511.411 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 Tellicherry

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