Climate and average weather in Agra

In Agra, the summers are sweltering, fairly dry, and clear and the winters are mild and clear.

Best: early January to early March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Agra typically varies from 9°C to 40°C, and is rarely below 5°C or above 44°C. May is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

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

Hottest
May
40°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Aug
226 mm
Driest
Nov
7 mm
Rain / yr
716 mm
79 wet days
Daylight
10.3–13.7 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
166 m
27.2°N
Clearest
Nov
13% cloud

Agra is city in Uttar Pradesh, India.

Air quality
Severe
PM2.5 109.7 µg/m³ · 2019
Density
7,591/km²
people per km²

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

Agra 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 early March.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 3.1 months, from April 6 to July 7, with daily high temperatures above 35°C. The hottest month of the year in Agra is May, with an average high of 40°C and low of 27°C.

The cool season lasts 2.1 months, from December 10 to February 11, with daily high temperatures below 24°C. The coldest month of the year in Agra is January, with an average low of 9°C and high of 21°C.

Days typically run about 11°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 15°C) in April.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan219
Feb2512
Mar3117
Apr3723
May4027
Jun3929
Jul3428
Aug3327
Sep3326
Oct3321
Nov2815
Dec2310

How hot and cold Agra 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, Agra feels like about 45°C (around June 25). About 218 days a year carry some heat stress, and 148 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in June.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan202189
Feb25251212
Mar31311717
Apr37372223
May41402727
Jun44392929
Jul43342828
Aug41332727
Sep40332526
Oct34332121
Nov28281515
Dec2323910

Average hourly temperature in Agra

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 May afternoons, near 40°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

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

Agra 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
Jan21° / 162.310.58.2
Feb25° / 12°182.6118.6
Mar31° / 17°142.511.85.9
Apr37° / 23°82.212.61.9
May40° / 27°123.913.30.1
Jun39° / 29°748.313.70.6
Jul34° / 28°21320.713.52.0
Aug33° / 27°22621132.6
Sep33° / 26°10011.312.23.3
Oct33° / 21°221.911.34.7
Nov28° / 15°7110.77.9
Dec23° / 10°70.910.39.0

Chance of rain

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

Agra gets about 716 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is some rain, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 3.4 months, from around Jun 12 to Sep 24, peaking in July at about 73% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Dec 9.

August is the wettest month by volume, with 226 mm over about 21 wet days; November is the driest, with 7 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJul 24 · 73%Dec 9 · 2%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan72
Feb93
Mar83
Apr82
May124
Jun288
Jul6621
Aug6821
Sep3711
Oct62
Nov31
Dec31

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Agra collects about 716 mm of rain across 79 wet days — roughly 60 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 226 mm, while November is the driest at just 7 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 75% of the year’s total.

050100150200250JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec161814812742132261002277
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan162
Feb183
Mar143
Apr82
May124
Jun748
Jul21321
Aug22621
Sep10011
Oct222
Nov71
Dec71

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Agra, 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 September 20 and lasts for 8.9 months, ending around June 17. The clearest month is May, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 96% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around June 18 and lasts for 3.1 months, ending around September 19. The cloudiest month is July, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 74% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecMay 25 · 97%Jul 30 · 18%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan8317
Feb8614
Mar8515
Apr9010
May964
Jun7723
Jul2674
Aug2674
Sep6832
Oct946
Nov928
Dec8812

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 42 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 10 h 18 min — a swing of roughly 3 h 24 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan10.57:135:41
Feb11.07:016:04
Mar11.86:346:22
Apr12.65:596:37
May13.35:346:54
Jun13.75:277:09
Jul13.55:377:10
Aug13.05:536:51
Sep12.26:076:17
Oct11.36:235:43
Nov10.76:445:22
Dec10.37:055:23

Sunny days

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

Agra averages about 20 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 2 and 28 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 8.9 months, from around Sep 20 to Jun 16. The sunniest month is October, with roughly 27 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is July, down near 5 sunny days — about 83% fewer than the October peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantOct 2428 daysJul 312 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan23Bright
Feb21Bright
Mar23Bright
Apr23Brilliant
May27Brilliant
Jun20Bright
Jul5Gloomy
Aug5Gloomy
Sep17Bright
Oct28Brilliant
Nov26Brilliant
Dec25Brilliant

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 Agra, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 5.8 months, from around May 6 to October 28. The muggiest month is July, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 100% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around October 29 to May 5, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 100% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 3 · 100%Jul 5 · 0%humidcomfortableoppressivemiserablemuggydrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan9190000
Feb71227000
Mar443817100
Apr433318600
May18202427111
Jun3511203229
Jul00051184
Aug00001189
Sep013112757
Oct7193224144
Nov463219200
Dec86121000

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 Agra is typically calm, near 9 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 6.6 months, from around Feb 15 to Sep 4. The windiest month is June, averaging about 10 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Sep 5 to Feb 14, with October the calmest month at about 7 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeJun 11 · 11 km/hOct 31 · 7 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan8calm
Feb9calm
Mar9calm
Apr9calm
May10calm
Jun10calm
Jul10calm
Aug9calm
Sep8calm
Oct7calm
Nov7calm
Dec7calm

Hazard calendar for Agra

In seasonPeak

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

Agra's monsoon runs July–August, when most of the year's rain falls.

Agra sees seasonal dust haze (May–August), heaviest in June.

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

Best time to visit Agra

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid January, Agra is still near the start of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds not yet at full swing.

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 Agra for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid November to early March, with a peak score in the second week of December.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 8 · 9.3

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
Jan8.2ideal
Feb8.6ideal
Mar5.9good
Apr1.9poor
May0.1poor
Jun0.7poor
Jul2.0poor
Aug2.6poor
Sep3.4poor
Oct4.8fair
Nov7.9ideal
Dec8.9ideal

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Agra for hot-weather activities run from mid February to late March and again from early October to mid December, with a peak score in the second week of November.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationNov 9 · 9.2

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 Agra, 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 May (highs near 40°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 21°C), pack a light layer.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In May, Agra sees daytime highs around 40°C and nights near 27°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 4 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Agra 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 Agra peaks around August 17 at about 10 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 17 at about 4 (moderate).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateVery highVery highHighModerateAug 17UV 10Dec 17UV 4
UV index (midday)Level
Jan4Moderate
Feb5Moderate
Mar8Very high
Apr9Very high
May9Very high
Jun8Very high
Jul7Very high
Aug11Extreme
Sep8Very high
Oct7High
Nov4Moderate
Dec4Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Agra

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 August the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 5.5 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)
Jan40
Feb50
Mar6.54
Apr7.55
May85
Jun7.54.5
Jul74
Aug85.5
Sep74
Oct62
Nov40
Dec3.50

Air quality in Agra 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 Agra is worst in December — around 186 µg/m³ PM2.5 (very unhealthy), about 3.3× the cleanest month (August, 56 µg/m³).

Seasonal pattern from CAMS reanalysis, scaled to Agra's WHO annual average of 109.7 µg/m³.

0306090120150180210JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecVery unhealthyUnhealthyVery unhealthyDec 21186 µg/m³Aug 1056 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan183Very unhealthy
Feb143Unhealthy
Mar111Unhealthy
Apr83Unhealthy
May70Unhealthy
Jun68Unhealthy
Jul57Unhealthy
Aug56Unhealthy
Sep67Unhealthy
Oct119Unhealthy
Nov173Very unhealthy
Dec186Very unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Agra 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. Agra banks about 5,743 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around June.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan143
Feb230
Mar427
Apr592
May726
Jun714
Jul654
Aug613
Sep582
Oct520
Nov343
Dec196

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.

Agra receives about 5.3 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.9 and 7.3 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.3 months, from around Feb 22 to Jul 3. The brightest month is May, averaging about 7.3 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 4.0 kWh/m² — roughly 45% less than the May peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseMay 107.3 kWhDec 273.9 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.1Bright
Feb5.0Bright
Mar6.1Intense
Apr7.1Intense
May7.3Intense
Jun6.3Intense
Jul4.7Bright
Aug4.3Bright
Sep4.9Bright
Oct5.2Bright
Nov4.4Bright
Dec4.0Moderate

Where is Agra?

Agra sits at 27.2°N, 78.0°E, 166 m above sea level, in India. The nearest listed city is Fatehpur Sikri, 37 km away.

DelhiJaipurBhimdattaDhangaḍhi̇̄KhajurahoRishikeshṬikāpur

What Agra looks like

Topography around Agra

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Agra has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 38 m around an average of 165 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 40 m; within 80 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 236 m.

The land around Agra is covered by artificial surfaces (66%) and trees (20%) within 3 km, cropland (63%) within 16 km, and cropland (85%) within 80 km.

3 km
38 m
16 km
40 m
80 km
236 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Fatehpur Sikri 37 km · Delhi 181 km · Jaipur 223 km · Bhimdatta 290 km · Dhangaḍhi̇̄ 304 km · Khajuraho 323 km · Rishikesh 326 km · Ṭikāpur 340 km

India travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type C / D / M
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 23% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$2,702
2025
Happiness
4.5 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
76%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
2.8
per 100k, 2022
Road deaths
15.6
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Lower middle
World Bank
English
Low
EF EPI 484
Religion
Hindu 80%Muslim 14%Christian 2%other and unspecified 2%

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 Agra (27.1833°, 78.0167°, elevation 166 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. 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).