Climate and average weather in Khulna

In Khulna, the summers are muggy, sweltering, showery, and mostly clear and the winters are warm and clear.

Best: early January to mid February

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Khulna typically varies from 14°C to 34°C, and is rarely below 11°C or above 37°C. April is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Khulna for warm-weather activities are from early January to mid February and late November to late December.

Hottest
Apr
34°
Coldest
Jan
14°
Wettest
Jul
349 mm
Driest
Jan
8 mm
Rain / yr
1735 mm
162 wet days
Daylight
10.6–13.4 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
8 m
22.8°N
Clearest
Jan
20% cloud

Khulna is 3rd largest city of Bangladesh.

Air quality
Severe
PM2.5 61.2 µg/m³ · 2018
Density
25,192/km²
people per km²
Founded
1884

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

Khulna weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around early January to mid February.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Khulna, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 3.6 months, from March 11 to June 26, with daily high temperatures above 32°C. The hottest month of the year in Khulna is April, with an average high of 34°C and low of 25°C.

The cool season lasts 1.7 months, from December 11 to February 1, with daily high temperatures below 26°C. The coldest month of the year in Khulna is January, with an average low of 14°C and high of 25°C.

Days typically run about 8°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 11°C) in February.

10°15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2514
Feb2817
Mar3222
Apr3425
May3426
Jun3327
Jul3227
Aug3227
Sep3226
Oct3125
Nov2920
Dec2616

How hot and cold Khulna really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the hottest afternoons, once humidity is folded in, Khulna feels like about 43°C (around May 15). About 249 days a year carry some heat stress, and 190 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in May.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan25251414
Feb29281717
Mar35322222
Apr41342525
May43342626
Jun41332727
Jul40322727
Aug40322727
Sep40322626
Oct37312525
Nov31292020
Dec26261616

Average hourly temperature in Khulna

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on April afternoons, near 34°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 14°C.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Khulna weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan25° / 14°81.310.89.1
Feb28° / 17°192.811.27.5
Mar32° / 22°405.111.84.7
Apr34° / 25°11511.412.53.0
May34° / 26°18815.713.12.8
Jun33° / 27°30624.313.42.3
Jul32° / 27°34929.613.32.2
Aug32° / 27°2942912.82.3
Sep32° / 26°23525.612.12.5
Oct31° / 25°13614.511.54.2
Nov29° / 20°372.210.97.0
Dec26° / 16°100.910.68.8

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Khulna gets about 1735 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is often wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 5.7 months, from around Apr 27 to Oct 16, peaking in July at about 96% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Dec 2.

July is the wettest month by volume, with 349 mm over about 30 wet days; January is the driest, with 8 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJul 9 · 96%Dec 2 · 2%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan41
Feb93
Mar175
Apr3811
May5116
Jun8024
Jul9530
Aug9329
Sep8526
Oct4615
Nov82
Dec31

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Khulna collects about 1735 mm of rain across 162 wet days — roughly 145 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. July is the wettest month with 349 mm, while January is the driest at just 8 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 55% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec819401151883063492942351363710
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan81
Feb193
Mar405
Apr11511
May18816
Jun30624
Jul34930
Aug29429
Sep23526
Oct13615
Nov372
Dec101

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Khulna, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows significant seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around October 13 and lasts for 7.3 months, ending around May 21. The clearest month is January, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 88% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around May 22 and lasts for 4.7 months, ending around October 12. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 97% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 24 · 91%Aug 4 · 1%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan8812
Feb8812
Mar8812
Apr7921
May6139
Jun1882
Jul397
Aug397
Sep1684
Oct5842
Nov8119
Dec8614

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around June 8, brings about 13 h 24 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 10 h 36 min — a swing of roughly 2 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan10.86:495:33
Feb11.26:405:53
Mar11.86:166:06
Apr12.55:466:18
May13.15:256:31
Jun13.45:206:44
Jul13.35:296:46
Aug12.85:426:30
Sep12.15:526:00
Oct11.56:035:31
Nov10.96:205:14
Dec10.66:405:16

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Khulna averages about 14 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 25 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 6.8 months, from around Oct 14 to May 8. The sunniest month is January, with roughly 24 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is July, down near 0 sunny days — about 99% fewer than the January peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJan 2125 daysJul 290 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan25Brilliant
Feb22Brilliant
Mar24Brilliant
Apr17Bright
May11Mixed
Jun2Gloomy
Jul0Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep3Gloomy
Oct14Mixed
Nov21Bright
Dec24Brilliant

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

In Khulna, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 8.7 months, from around March 8 to November 26. The muggiest month is April, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 100% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around November 27 to March 7, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 82% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 7 · 84%Apr 8 · 0%oppressivehumidcomfortablemiserablemuggydrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan414116200
Feb1530291870
Mar281628379
Apr00164054
May00001090
Jun00000100
Jul00000100
Aug00000100
Sep0000199
Oct00082963
Nov062835264
Dec154136710

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Across the year, average wind speed in Khulna is typically calm, near 9 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.7 months, from around Mar 22 to Sep 12. The windiest month is June, averaging about 12 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Sep 13 to Mar 21, with October the calmest month at about 6 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeJun 23 · 12 km/hOct 16 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb7calm
Mar9calm
Apr11calm
May12calm
Jun12light breeze
Jul12light breeze
Aug11calm
Sep9calm
Oct6calm
Nov7calm
Dec7calm

Hazard calendar for Khulna

In seasonPeak

When the seasonal hazards worth planning around — the rainy season, tropical-cyclone risk and dust haze — are active through the year.

Khulna sits in the North Indian Ocean cyclone zone; the season peaks May and October–November.

Khulna's monsoon runs May–September, when most of the year's rain falls.

Cyclone
Monsoon
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Khulna

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Khulna throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around early February, Khulna is still near the tail of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds already thinning.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 18°C and 28°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Khulna for general outdoor tourist activities is from late November to mid February, with a peak score in the first week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 1 · 9.1

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan9.0ideal
Feb7.5good
Mar4.7fair
Apr3.1poor
May2.7poor
Jun2.3poor
Jul2.2poor
Aug2.3poor
Sep2.5poor
Oct4.2fair
Nov7.0good
Dec8.8ideal

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Khulna for hot-weather activities is from late October to late March, with a peak score in the last week of November.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationNov 23 · 8.9

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Khulna, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

For a warm-season trip around April (highs near 34°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 25°C), pack light clothes and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In April, Khulna sees daytime highs around 34°C and nights near 25°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: rain gear and sun protection. About 11 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Khulna by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Khulna peaks around July 20 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near January 15 at about 5 (moderate).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — every month of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateVery highExtremeHighModerateJul 20UV 13Jan 15UV 5
UV index (midday)Level
Jan5Moderate
Feb5Moderate
Mar8Very high
Apr8Very high
May10Very high
Jun8Very high
Jul13Extreme
Aug11Extreme
Sep10Extreme
Oct5High
Nov5High
Dec5Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Khulna

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in July the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6.5 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan4.50
Feb50
Mar74
Apr74
May85.5
Jun7.54.5
Jul8.56.5
Aug85.5
Sep7.55
Oct5.50
Nov50
Dec4.50

Air quality in Khulna by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in Khulna is worst in January — around 129 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 5.9× the cleanest month (July, 22 µg/m³).

Seasonal pattern from CAMS reanalysis, scaled to Khulna's WHO annual average of 61.2 µg/m³.

0306090120150JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorModerateUnhealthyJan 11128 µg/m³Jul 1722 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan129Unhealthy
Feb95Unhealthy
Mar63Unhealthy
Apr38Poor
May30Moderate
Jun28Moderate
Jul22Moderate
Aug27Moderate
Sep28Moderate
Oct52Poor
Nov100Unhealthy
Dec124Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Khulna is frost-free year round — even the coldest nights rarely reach freezing, so there is no start or end to the growing season.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecfrost-free year round
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec1000

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 10°C: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Khulna banks about 6,054 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around May.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan293
Feb357
Mar529
Apr586
May622
Jun592
Jul594
Aug592
Sep570
Oct552
Nov433
Dec334

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Khulna receives about 4.6 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.8 and 6.0 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.5 months, from around Jan 20 to Jun 5. The brightest month is April, averaging about 5.9 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is August, down near 3.8 kWh/m² — roughly 35% less than the April peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 136.0 kWhAug 133.8 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.5Bright
Feb5.1Bright
Mar5.9Bright
Apr6.0Bright
May5.3Bright
Jun4.2Bright
Jul3.8Moderate
Aug3.9Moderate
Sep3.9Moderate
Oct4.2Bright
Nov4.3Bright
Dec4.2Bright

Where is Khulna?

Khulna sits at 22.8°N, 89.6°E, 8 m above sea level, in Bangladesh. The nearest listed city is Bagerhat, 29 km away.

JessoreBarisalKolkataDhakaRajshahiMymensinghChittagong

Topography around Khulna

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Khulna.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Khulna has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 15 m around an average of 5 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 19 m; within 80 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 21 m.

The land around Khulna is covered by artificial surfaces (43%) and trees (35%) within 3 km, cropland (54%) and trees (35%) within 16 km, and cropland (47%) and trees (33%) within 80 km.

3 km
15 m
16 km
19 m
80 km
21 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwaterwetlandmangroves
Nearby: Bagerhat 29 km · Jessore 54 km · Barisal 83 km · Kolkata 126 km · Dhaka 132 km · Rajshahi 200 km · Mymensingh 233 km · Chittagong 239 km

Bangladesh travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 3
Reconsider Travel
Power plugs
Type A / C / D / G
220 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 25% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$2,597
2025
Happiness
4.3 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
59%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
2.3
per 100k, 2018
Road deaths
15.3
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Lower middle
World Bank
English
Moderate
EF EPI 506
Religion
Muslim 91%Hindu 8%other 1%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Khulna (22.8098°, 89.5644°, elevation 8 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. Tropical-cyclone seasons are the published climatological basin seasons (NOAA National Hurricane Center / regional warning centres). UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).