Patna weather by month: averages, rainfall & climate trends
Average temperatures in Patna follow a clear seasonal rhythm, rising and falling by 16.0°C over the course of the year. Rainfall is strongly seasonal: the bulk of the year's rain falls between June and September. Patna weather by month: average temperatures, rainfall, records and how the climate has changed since 1940.
Today vs average
+0.9°Chigh near average
How it's changed
+0.6°Caverage temperature, 2016–2025 vs 1940–1949average temperature vs 1940–49243days above 30°C a year now (2016–2025) · 204 in the 1940sdays above 30°C · 204 in the 1940s+0.6°C vs the 1940s · see how it's changed →Weather by montha typical year, averaged over the full recordJanuary, rain 23 mmhigh 23°low 11°February, rain 19 mmhigh 27°low 13°March, rain 16 mmhigh 33°low 19°April, rain 18 mmhigh 38°low 24°May, rain 38 mmhigh 39°low 26°June, rain 160 mmhigh 36°low 28°July, rain 322 mmhigh 33°low 27°August, rain 284 mmhigh 32°low 27°September, rain 209 mmhigh 32°low 26°October, rain 69 mmhigh 31°low 22°November, rain 9 mmhigh 28°low 16°December, rain 10 mmhigh 25°low 12°wettest month July, 322 mm · 1,176 mm a yearsee month by month →Right now
What it's doing today vs the historical average for this date.Right now
25.9°
On this date: October 18
High near average · +0.9°C
- Record high: 34.6° · 2020
- Record low: 16.8° · 1954
- One year ago: 32° / 22°
Every October 18 in history, coldest to hottest
Dots show daily highs (top) and lows (bottom) for each October 18 on record (n = 87). Outlined dots are today's forecast.
Area we sample
Each city's history comes from one ERA5 grid cell, about 28 km across, shown by the dashed box. Near mountains or coasts, conditions can vary across the cell.
Location & data
Historical weather for Patna is sampled from the ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at 25.59°N, 85.14°E, with daily records since 1940.
- Coordinates
- 25.59°N, 85.14°E
- Time zone
- Asia/Kolkata
- Period
- 1940–2026
- Data source
- ERA5 (ECMWF)
Last 30 days
22 of the last 31 days were warmer than the historical average for that date. Average difference: +0.5°C.
Each bar is one day, from morning low to afternoon high. Warm-colored bars are days whose mean ran above average; cool bars ran below. The dot inside the bar is the daily mean. The shaded band is the typical 10–90% range expected for that date. Average = the day's mean temperature averaged across every year of record (1940–2026) for that calendar date.
This date over the years
One dot per year, showing the mean temperature on this calendar date. Dots are warmer or cooler than the long-term average (dashed line); the shaded band is the typical 10–90% range, and the highlighted dot is today's forecast. Based on ERA5 reanalysis: modelled estimates, not station readings.
Weather by month
Average temperatures and rainfall for each month: a typical year, from the full record.Climate overview
The warmest month is May, with typical afternoon highs of 38.6°C and nights around 26.4°C. On about 225 nights a year, the temperature never drops below 20°C. The coolest month is January, when afternoons reach about 23.0°C and overnight lows sit around 10.7°C. Frost is essentially unknown.
The yearly total for Patna comes to about 1,176 mm; monthly amounts range from 9 mm in November up to 322 mm in July.
The record here starts in 1940, and since then the annual mean in Patna has climbed 0.6°C from the first ten years to the last ten. You can follow the shift year by year in the charts below.
Climate graph (climograph)
May is the warmest month, January the coolest: a yearly swing of 16°C. Wettest month: July (~322 mm). Whole year averages ~1,176 mm of rain.
Bars = average monthly rainfall (right axis). Lines = average daily high and low (left axis). Average = each month's value averaged across every year of record (1940–2026).
Rainy days by month
About 100 rainy days a year: most in August (~24), fewest in November (~1).
Bars = average number of days with ≥ 2 mm per month. Hover for the monthly rainfall total.
Monthly wind
Average daily peak wind at 10 m, by month.
Monthly solar energy
Average daily incoming solar energy in megajoules per square metre: the record's own proxy for how sunny the month is.
Patna month by month: what to expect
Typical conditions for each month, averaged across the full record (since 1940). Daylight is the time from sunrise to sunset. Record high/low are the most extreme values in the ERA5 dataset (modelled since 1940), so they can differ from official weather-station readings.
| Month | Avg high | Avg low | Rain | Rainy days | Daylight | Record high | Record low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 23.0° | 10.7° | 23 mm | 2 | 10.6 h | 30.5° (1964) | 3.3° (2013) |
| February | 26.6° | 13.4° | 19 mm | 2 | 11.1 h | 36.1° (1956) | 6.0° (1950) |
| March | 32.9° | 18.6° | 16 mm | 2 | 11.8 h | 42.9° (1973) | 9.9° (1990) |
| April | 37.8° | 23.6° | 18 mm | 2 | 12.6 h | 44.9° (1956) | 15.1° (1950) |
| May | 38.6° | 26.4° | 38 mm | 4 | 13.3 h | 46.8° (1957) | 19.8° (1977) |
| June | 36.5° | 27.6° | 160 mm | 13 | 13.6 h | 46.6° (1966) | 22.7° (1980) |
| July | 32.6° | 26.8° | 322 mm | 24 | 13.5 h | 42.4° (1982) | 23.6° (1965) |
| August | 32.1° | 26.5° | 284 mm | 24 | 12.9 h | 37.0° (2009) | 23.2° (1965) |
| September | 31.7° | 25.7° | 209 mm | 19 | 12.1 h | 36.5° (2024) | 20.6° (1982) |
| October | 30.7° | 22.0° | 69 mm | 6 | 11.4 h | 35.9° (2021) | 14.6° (1954) |
| November | 28.2° | 16.1° | 9 mm | 1 | 10.7 h | 33.9° (2024) | 9.0° (1941) |
| December | 24.6° | 11.7° | 10 mm | 1 | 10.4 h | 30.7° (2015) | 5.3° (2019) |
How it's changed
Year-by-year signals from 1940 to today.Climate stripes
Annual mean shifted from 1940–1949 to 2016–2025 by +0.6°C.
Each vertical stripe is one year. Color encodes how much that year's annual mean differed from the long-term average. Average = each year's annual mean compared to the average of all years (1940–2026). cooler ← → warmer
Annual mean temperature
Long-term trend: +0.08°C per decade.
One point per year, showing the temperature averaged across the whole year. The dashed line is the least-squares long-term trend. Based on ERA5 reanalysis: modelled estimates, not station readings.
Seasonal warming
Sep–Nov is warming fastest: +0.23°C per decade.
Each faint line is one three-month period's average per year; the bold dashed line is its long-term trend. Different parts of the year often warm at different rates. Based on ERA5 reanalysis: modelled estimates, not station readings.
Hot days vs frost days
Days ≥ 30°C per year: 203.7 early in the record → 243.0 recently. Frost days: 0 → 0.
Thin lines are raw yearly counts; thick lines are the smoothed trend that removes year-to-year noise. The hot-day threshold is auto-picked per city so the line actually moves. Average = a centered 5-year rolling average to smooth weather noise.
Yearly hot & cold extremes
All-time high in 1957, all-time low in 2013: 46.8°C / 3.3°C.
One point per year: the single hottest and coldest day recorded that year.
Annual rainfall
~1,176 mm/year on average. Last decade: +4% vs that average. Long-term trend: −5 mm per decade.
One bar per year of total rainfall. Dashed line is the long-term average. Average = the average annual rainfall across every year of record (1940–2026).
Day-by-day grid
Each tiny square is one calendar day across the full record, about 30,000 days per city. Use the mode switch above the chart: Anomaly colors each day by how far it ran from the historical average for that date (red = warmer, blue = cooler), Daily mean temp shows the absolute mean temperature for the day (useful to see seasons and heatwaves), and Precipitation shows daily rainfall (useful to spot wet/dry seasons and droughts). Average = the long-term average for that calendar date (1940–2026).
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