Climate and average weather in Hampi

In Hampi, the summers are sweltering, fairly dry, and mostly clear and the winters are hot and mostly clear.

Best: mid November to late December

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Hampi typically varies from 18°C to 37°C, and is rarely below 15°C or above 39°C. April is the hottest month of the year, while December is the coldest.

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

Hottest
Apr
37°
Coldest
Dec
18°
Wettest
Sep
112 mm
Driest
Feb
2 mm
Rain / yr
606 mm
94 wet days
Daylight
11.1–12.9 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
0 m
15.3°N
Clearest
Feb
21% cloud

Hampi is town in India.

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

Hampi 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 mid November to late December.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Hampi stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is April, with an average high of 37°C and low of 25°C; the coolest is December, with an average low of 18°C and high of 30°C.

Days typically run about 10°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 13°C) in March.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3019
Feb3320
Mar3623
Apr3725
May3725
Jun3224
Jul3023
Aug3023
Sep3023
Oct3022
Nov3020
Dec3018

How hot and cold Hampi 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, Hampi feels like about 39°C (around May 14). About 234 days a year carry some heat stress, and 27 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in May.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan30301819
Feb33332020
Mar36362323
Apr38372525
May39372525
Jun35322424
Jul32302323
Aug32302323
Sep33302323
Oct32302222
Nov30302020
Dec29301818

Average hourly temperature in Hampi

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 37°C, and coldest before dawn in December, near 18°C.

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

Hampi 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
Jan30° / 19°50.911.26.3
Feb33° / 20°20.511.54.8
Mar36° / 23°81.311.92.9
Apr37° / 25°153.412.31.8
May37° / 25°366.812.71.9
Jun32° / 24°8314.812.93.2
Jul30° / 23°9916.712.83.8
Aug30° / 23°10115.412.54.1
Sep30° / 23°11214.112.14.1
Oct30° / 22°10913.611.74.4
Nov30° / 20°304.911.35.6
Dec30° / 18°61.311.16.5

Chance of rain

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

Hampi gets about 606 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 5.5 months, from around May 21 to Nov 2, peaking in July at about 56% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 27.

September is the wettest month by volume, with 112 mm over about 14 wet days; February is the driest, with 2 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJul 18 · 56%Jan 27 · 2%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan31
Feb21
Mar41
Apr123
May247
Jun4715
Jul5317
Aug5015
Sep4714
Oct4214
Nov175
Dec41

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Hampi collects about 606 mm of rain across 94 wet days — roughly 51 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. September is the wettest month with 112 mm, while February is the driest at just 2 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 53% of the year’s total.

0255075100125150JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec52815368399101112109306
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan51
Feb21
Mar81
Apr153
May367
Jun8315
Jul9917
Aug10115
Sep11214
Oct10914
Nov305
Dec61

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Hampi, 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 29 and lasts for 7.0 months, ending around May 28. The clearest month is March, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 90% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around May 29 and lasts for 5.0 months, ending around October 28. The cloudiest month is July, 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecMar 26 · 91%Jul 20 · 2%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan8119
Feb8812
Mar9010
Apr8515
May6436
Jun1783
Jul397
Aug595
Sep1981
Oct4456
Nov5842
Dec6733

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 3, brings about 12 h 54 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 h 06 min — a swing of roughly 1 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.26:586:09
Feb11.56:546:23
Mar11.96:376:31
Apr12.36:146:35
May12.75:596:42
Jun12.95:576:52
Jul12.86:056:55
Aug12.56:136:44
Sep12.16:166:21
Oct11.76:205:59
Nov11.36:315:48
Dec11.16:475:53

Sunny days

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

Hampi averages about 12 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 5.9 months, from around Nov 26 to May 25. The sunniest month is February, with roughly 23 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is July, down near 0 sunny days — about 100% fewer than the February peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantFeb 2825 daysJul 90 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan21Bright
Feb22Brilliant
Mar25Brilliant
Apr21Bright
May15Mixed
Jun2Gloomy
Jul0Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep2Gloomy
Oct8Gloomy
Nov11Mixed
Dec17Bright

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 7.0 months, from around April 11 to November 10. The muggiest month is June, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 100% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around November 11 to April 10, and February is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 88% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecFeb 20 · 89%Jun 5 · 0%oppressivecomfortablehumiddrymuggycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan56291320
Feb60281020
Mar46291861
Apr81938323
May04235022
Jun0015246
Jul0005842
Aug0006040
Sep0065143
Oct29164132
Nov181826325
Dec38312290

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 Hampi is typically light breeze, near 13 km/h, and varies a lot with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 4.4 months, from around May 11 to Sep 21. The windiest month is July, averaging about 21 km/h (breezy).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Sep 22 to May 10, with March the calmest month at about 9 km/h.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezebreezyJul 3 · 21 km/hMar 20 · 9 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan10calm
Feb9calm
Mar9calm
Apr9calm
May14light breeze
Jun20light breeze
Jul21breezy
Aug19light breeze
Sep14light breeze
Oct9calm
Nov10calm
Dec10calm

Hazard calendar for Hampi

In seasonPeak

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

Hampi's rainy season runs June–October, when most of the year's rain falls.

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

Best time to visit Hampi

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late November, Hampi 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 Hampi for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid November to early February, with a peak score in the last week of December.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 28 · 6.8

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
Jan6.3good
Feb4.8fair
Mar2.9poor
Apr1.8poor
May1.9poor
Jun3.2poor
Jul3.8fair
Aug4.1fair
Sep4.1fair
Oct4.4fair
Nov5.6good
Dec6.5good

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 Hampi for hot-weather activities is from early November to early March, with a peak score in the last week of December.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 31 · 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 Hampi, 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 37°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around December (highs near 30°C), pack light clothes and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In April, Hampi sees daytime highs around 37°C and nights near 25°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 3 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Hampi 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 Hampi peaks around July 11 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 19 at about 7 (high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecVery highExtremeVery highJul 11UV 13Dec 19UV 7
UV index (midday)Level
Jan8Very high
Feb11Extreme
Mar11Extreme
Apr12Extreme
May11Extreme
Jun13Extreme
Jul13Extreme
Aug11Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct11Extreme
Nov9Very high
Dec7High

Average hourly UV index in Hampi

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)
Jan6.54
Feb75
Mar7.55.5
Apr86
May85.5
Jun8.56.5
Jul8.56.5
Aug86
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov6.54.5
Dec62.5

Air quality in Hampi 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 Hampi is worst in January — around 52 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 3.0× the cleanest month (July, 18 µg/m³).

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecPoorModeratePoorJan 1452 µg/m³Jul 1818 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan52Poor
Feb45Poor
Mar49Poor
Apr46Poor
May37Poor
Jun22Moderate
Jul18Moderate
Aug20Moderate
Sep24Moderate
Oct45Poor
Nov47Poor
Dec49Poor
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Hampi 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. Hampi banks about 6,207 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around April.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan445
Feb463
Mar601
Apr628
May641
Jun538
Jul512
Aug501
Sep492
Oct504
Nov452
Dec431

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.

Hampi receives about 5.4 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.1 and 6.8 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.8 months, from around Jan 12 to Jun 7. The brightest month is March, averaging about 6.7 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is July, down near 4.2 kWh/m² — roughly 37% less than the March peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseMar 286.8 kWhJul 304.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.5Bright
Feb6.2Intense
Mar6.8Intense
Apr6.8Intense
May6.6Intense
Jun4.9Bright
Jul4.2Bright
Aug4.2Bright
Sep4.7Bright
Oct4.9Bright
Nov4.8Bright
Dec5.0Bright

Where is Hampi?

Hampi sits at 15.3°N, 76.5°E, 0 m above sea level, in India. The nearest listed city is Panaji, 283 km away.

PanajiGoaBengaluruHyderabadMysoreManaliChennaiIrimbiliyam

Topography around Hampi

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Hampi has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 128 m around an average of 437 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 572 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 758 m.

The land around Hampi is covered by trees (36%) and shrubs (31%) within 3 km, shrubs (39%) and cropland (38%) within 16 km, and cropland (79%) within 80 km.

3 km
128 m
16 km
572 m
80 km
758 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Panaji 283 km · Goa 284 km · Bengaluru 290 km · Hyderabad 312 km · Mysore 338 km · Manali 476 km · Chennai 481 km · Irimbiliyam 499 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 Hampi (15.3352°, 76.4603°, elevation 0 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).