Amritsar weather in August

In August, Amritsar sees average daytime highs of 33°C and overnight lows near 27°C, with 171 mm of rain across 20 wet days and about 13.2 hours of daylight. It is the 5th-warmest and 2nd-wettest month of the year here.

Day-to-day highs hold fairly steady near 33°C through the month. The sky is clear or mostly clear about 43% of the time in August, and the air most often feels miserable.

Daylight stretches from about 13 h 36 min at the start of August to 12 h 42 min by month's end. Set against the rest of the year, August is Amritsar's 12th-clearest and 10th-windiest month. For the whole year in context, see Amritsar's year-round climate.

Daytime high
33°
5th warmest
Overnight low
27°
10th coldest
Rainfall
171 mm
20 wet days
Daylight
13 h 12 min
6:00 AM – 7:10 PM
Cloud cover
51%
12th clearest
Wind
6 km/h
10th windiest
Solar energy
5.07 kWh/m²
Travel score
2.7
out of 10

Amritsar is city in the north-western part of Punjab, India.

Air quality
Severe
PM10 170 µg/m³ · 2019
Density
6,819/km²
people per km²
Founded
1574

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

Temperature in August

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Day-to-day highs hold fairly steady near 33°C through the month.

A typical August day in Amritsar reaches about 33°C in the afternoon and slips back to 27°C overnight — a 7°C spread between the day's warmth and the night's chill. On most days the high lands between 30°C and 35°C. Set against its neighbours, August runs about 1°C cooler than July and on par with September.

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How August really feels in Amritsar

Once humidity and wind are folded in, August averages 31 days that feel above 32°C and 0 that feel at or below 0°C — the comfort signal a plain temperature reading hides.

Days feeling ≥ 32°C
31
31 feel dangerously hot (≥ 39°C)
Days feeling ≤ C
0
wind chill below the day's low

The story in August is heat — humidity pushes the afternoon "feels like" well above the raw temperature.

Amritsar weather by month

How August compares with the rest of the year at a glance. August is the 5th-warmest and 2nd-wettest month here — the current month is highlighted below.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan18° / 424.910.26.8
Feb21° / 10°656.210.87.3
Mar27° / 14°566.111.87.3
Apr34° / 20°315.312.83.6
May39° / 24°246.613.60.7
Jun38° / 27°8010.1140.9
Jul34° / 27°19420.213.92.2
Aug33° / 27°1712013.22.7
Sep33° / 24°738.912.23.9
Oct31° / 19°142.211.25.6
Nov26° / 13°141.510.48.6
Dec20° / 172.2108.1

Cloud cover in August

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

The sky is clear or mostly clear about 43% of the time in August, the cloudiest month of the year.

Beyond those clear spells, partly cloudy skies cover about 18% of August, with mostly cloudy or overcast conditions the remaining 39%. Skies tend to open up as the month goes on.

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Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
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25248
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155842
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Chance of precipitation in August

Any precipitation

Amritsar gets around 171 mm of rain over 20 wet days in August. The line is the day-by-day chance of measurable precipitation.

Day to day, the chance of measurable rain averages around 64% and peaks near 75% on the wettest days. The odds ease toward the end of the month.

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Rain chance (%)
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874
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1270
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1468
1566
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1763
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1960
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2256
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2853
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3052
3152

Humidity in August

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Most of August feels miserable — the stacked bands show each day's mix of comfort levels, read off the dew point.

By dew point, August lands in the miserable band about 97% of days. Sticky, muggy-or-worse air turns up on roughly 100% of them.

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Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
1199
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12199
13199
14199
15199
16298
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20298
21298
22397
23397
24496
25496
26595
27694
28793
29892
30991
311090

Wind in August

Winds average 6 km/h in August.

Across August, daily wind ranges from about 6 km/h on the calmest days to 7 km/h at its breeziest. It stays fairly steady from day to day.

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Wind speed (km/h)Feels
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Sunrise & sunset in August

DaylightNight

Daylight runs from about 13 h 36 min at the start of August to 12 h 42 min by month's end. The lit band spans sunrise to sunset each day.

Days shrink by about 54 minutes over August. Sunrise moves from 5:50 AM to 6:09 AM, and sunset from 7:23 PM to 6:52 PM.

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Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
113.65:507:23
213.55:507:23
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413.55:527:21
513.55:527:20
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Solar energy in August

Daily solar energy (kWh/m²)

Average shortwave solar energy reaching the ground each day in August, about 5.07 kWh/m².

For context, solar energy here swings from a low near 3.34 kWh/m² to a high of 7.15 kWh/m² in May across the year — August's 5.07 kWh/m² falls in the middle.

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Planning a trip in August

Hazard calendar for Amritsar

In seasonPeak

In August, Amritsar sits inside its rainy season and dust season. The full year is below, with each hazard's peak months called out.

Amritsar's rainy season runs July–August, when most of the year's rain falls.

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

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

Is August a good time to visit Amritsar?

Our two travel scores rate August for general sightseeing and for beach or pool weather — 0 (poor) to 10 (ideal).

2.7
Sightseeing
9th-best month of the year
5.0
Beach & pool
6th-best month of the year

August is a weaker month for outdoor sightseeing in Amritsar.

What to pack for Amritsar in August

From August's temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind — what's worth putting in the bag.

In August, Amritsar sees daytime highs around 33°C and nights near 27°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 20 days see rain.

light clothesrain gearsun protection

UV index in Amritsar in August

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV in August peaks around 8 (very high — sun protection essential). The full-year curve, shaded by WHO exposure level, is below.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Amritsar peaks around June 13 at about 10 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near January 14 at about 2 (moderate).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 10 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateHighVery highHighModerateJun 13UV 10Jan 14UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Low
Feb4Moderate
Mar7Very high
Apr6High
May9Very high
Jun10Very high
Jul8Very high
Aug8Very high
Sep7High
Oct6High
Nov2Moderate
Dec3Moderate

Air quality in Amritsar in August

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see where August falls, not just the annual average.

Air quality in Amritsar is worst in November — around 237 µg/m³ PM2.5 (very unhealthy), about 2.5× the cleanest month (August, 93 µg/m³).

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

0306090120150180210240JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecVery unhealthyUnhealthyVery unhealthyNov 22236 µg/m³Aug 1695 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan217Very unhealthy
Feb182Very unhealthy
Mar144Unhealthy
Apr108Unhealthy
May109Unhealthy
Jun106Unhealthy
Jul104Unhealthy
Aug93Unhealthy
Sep104Unhealthy
Oct180Very unhealthy
Nov237Very unhealthy
Dec229Very unhealthy
Location & terrain

Where is Amritsar?

Amritsar sits at 31.6°N, 74.9°E, 244 m above sea level, in India. The nearest listed city is Lahore, 50 km away.

FaisalabadShimlaIslamabadMurreeMuzaffarabad

Topography around Amritsar

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Amritsar has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 21 m around an average of 235 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 27 m; within 80 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 92 m.

The land around Amritsar is covered by artificial surfaces (82%) within 3 km, cropland (78%) within 16 km, and cropland (89%) within 80 km.

3 km
21 m
16 km
27 m
80 km
92 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrain
August weather nearby: Lahore 50 km · Sialkot 102 km · Nankana Sahib 112 km · Faisalabad 171 km · Shimla 225 km · Islamabad 290 km · Murree 290 km · Muzaffarabad 332 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 Amritsar (31.6223°, 74.8753°, elevation 244 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).