Climate and average weather in Jaipur

In Jaipur, 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 Jaipur typically varies from 9°C to 40°C, and is rarely below 6°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 Jaipur for warm-weather activities are from early January to early March and mid November to late December.

Hottest
May
40°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Jul
168 mm
Driest
Dec
3 mm
Rain / yr
511 mm
66 wet days
Daylight
10.3–13.7 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
435 m
26.9°N
Clearest
Oct
14% cloud

Jaipur is capital of Rajasthan, India.

Air quality
Very high
PM10 140.9 µg/m³ · 2019
Density
6,523/km²
people per km²
Founded
1727

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

Jaipur 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 Jaipur, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 2.9 months, from April 8 to July 4, with daily high temperatures above 35°C. The hottest month of the year in Jaipur is May, with an average high of 40°C and low of 27°C.

The cool season lasts 2.2 months, from December 8 to February 12, with daily high temperatures below 25°C. The coldest month of the year in Jaipur 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 14°C) in April.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan219
Feb2512
Mar3118
Apr3723
May4027
Jun3828
Jul3427
Aug3226
Sep3324
Oct3320
Nov2815
Dec2310

How hot and cold Jaipur 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, Jaipur feels like about 42°C (around June 24). About 219 days a year carry some heat stress, and 89 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)
Jan212189
Feb25251212
Mar31311718
Apr37372323
May40402727
Jun41382828
Jul40342727
Aug38322626
Sep36332424
Oct33332020
Nov28281515
Dec23231010

Average hourly temperature in Jaipur

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

Jaipur 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° / 91.410.58.6
Feb25° / 12°81.6118.8
Mar31° / 18°81.711.85.8
Apr37° / 23°61.912.62.1
May40° / 27°123.513.30.1
Jun38° / 28°568.513.70.8
Jul34° / 27°16817.813.52.4
Aug32° / 26°16518133.2
Sep33° / 24°588.312.23.7
Oct33° / 20°111.811.44.7
Nov28° / 15°80.910.77.9
Dec23° / 10°30.810.39.1

Chance of rain

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

Jaipur gets about 511 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 3.5 months, from around Jun 6 to Sep 21, peaking in July at about 65% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Dec 19.

July is the wettest month by volume, with 168 mm over about 18 wet days; December is the driest, with 3 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJul 28 · 65%Dec 19 · 2%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan41
Feb62
Mar62
Apr62
May124
Jun289
Jul5718
Aug5818
Sep288
Oct62
Nov31
Dec31

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Jaipur collects about 511 mm of rain across 66 wet days — roughly 43 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. July is the wettest month with 168 mm, while December is the driest at just 3 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 76% of the year’s total.

0255075100125150175200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec98861256168165581183
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan91
Feb82
Mar82
Apr62
May124
Jun569
Jul16818
Aug16518
Sep588
Oct112
Nov81
Dec31

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Jaipur, 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 17 and lasts for 9.0 months, ending around June 18. The clearest month is May, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 95% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around June 19 and lasts for 3.0 months, ending around September 16. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 72% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecOct 21 · 97%Aug 2 · 17%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan8713
Feb8812
Mar8416
Apr9010
May955
Jun8020
Jul3070
Aug2872
Sep7426
Oct955
Nov928
Dec8911

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 10, 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)
Jan10.57:225:50
Feb11.07:106:13
Mar11.86:426:31
Apr12.66:086:46
May13.35:437:03
Jun13.75:377:18
Jul13.55:467:19
Aug13.06:027:00
Sep12.26:166:26
Oct11.46:315:52
Nov10.76:535:32
Dec10.37:145:32

Sunny days

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

Jaipur averages about 21 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 3 and 28 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 8.9 months, from around Sep 18 to Jun 16. The sunniest month is October, with roughly 28 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is August, down near 5 sunny days — about 81% fewer than the October peak.

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantOct 2428 daysAug 13 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan24Brilliant
Feb22Brilliant
Mar23Bright
Apr23Brilliant
May27Brilliant
Jun21Bright
Jul6Gloomy
Aug5Gloomy
Sep19Bright
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 Jaipur, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 4.7 months, from around May 22 to October 11. 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 12 to May 21, 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 11 · 100%Jul 9 · 0%humidmiserablecomfortableoppressivemuggydrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan9820000
Feb9550000
Mar9181000
Apr86113000
May472518810
Jun61315322310
Jul002123452
Aug00163954
Sep4611234017
Oct452515950
Nov84132100
Dec9630000

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 Jaipur is typically calm, near 10 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 6.0 months, from around Mar 17 to Sep 16. The windiest month is May, averaging about 12 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Sep 17 to Mar 16, with November the calmest month at about 7 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeMay 27 · 13 km/hNov 28 · 7 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan8calm
Feb9calm
Mar10calm
Apr10calm
May12light breeze
Jun12light breeze
Jul11calm
Aug10calm
Sep10calm
Oct8calm
Nov7calm
Dec7calm

Hazard calendar for Jaipur

In seasonPeak

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

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

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

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

Best time to visit Jaipur

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid January, Jaipur 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 Jaipur 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 11 · 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
Jan8.6ideal
Feb8.8ideal
Mar5.8good
Apr2.1poor
May0.1poor
Jun0.9poor
Jul2.4poor
Aug3.2poor
Sep3.8fair
Oct4.7fair
Nov7.8ideal
Dec9.1ideal

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 Jaipur for hot-weather activities run from early February to early April and again from late September to mid December, with a peak score in the second week of November.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationNov 10 · 9.1

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 Jaipur, 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, Jaipur 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 Jaipur 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 Jaipur peaks around June 14 at about 11 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near January 12 at about 4 (moderate).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateHighVery highExtremeVery highModerateJun 14UV 11Jan 12UV 4
UV index (midday)Level
Jan4Moderate
Feb6High
Mar8Very high
Apr10Very high
May10Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul9Very high
Aug10Very high
Sep9Very high
Oct7Very high
Nov5Moderate
Dec5Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Jaipur

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 June 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)
Jan40
Feb5.50
Mar74
Apr7.55.5
May85.5
Jun8.56.5
Jul85.5
Aug85.5
Sep74.5
Oct63
Nov4.50
Dec40

Air quality in Jaipur 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 Jaipur is worst in December — around 153 µg/m³ PM2.5 (very unhealthy), about 2.3× the cleanest month (August, 66 µg/m³).

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

0306090120150180JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyVery unhealthyDec 16152 µg/m³Aug 1967 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan147Unhealthy
Feb116Unhealthy
Mar85Unhealthy
Apr70Unhealthy
May73Unhealthy
Jun81Unhealthy
Jul75Unhealthy
Aug66Unhealthy
Sep70Unhealthy
Oct98Unhealthy
Nov148Unhealthy
Dec153Very unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Jaipur 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. Jaipur banks about 5,714 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)
Jan160
Feb243
Mar440
Apr597
May732
Jun702
Jul630
Aug579
Sep560
Oct516
Nov346
Dec209

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.

Jaipur receives about 5.4 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.1 and 7.4 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.4 months, from around Feb 21 to Jul 5. The brightest month is May, averaging about 7.3 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 4.1 kWh/m² — roughly 44% less than the May peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseMay 117.4 kWhDec 184.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.3Bright
Feb5.2Bright
Mar6.2Intense
Apr7.1Intense
May7.4Intense
Jun6.5Intense
Jul4.8Bright
Aug4.3Bright
Sep5.1Bright
Oct5.3Bright
Nov4.5Bright
Dec4.1Bright

Where is Jaipur?

Jaipur sits at 26.9°N, 75.8°E, 435 m above sea level, in India. The nearest listed city is Pushkar, 132 km away.

Fatehpur SikriAgraDelhiJodhpurUdaipurRishikeshKhajuraho

What Jaipur looks like

Topography around Jaipur

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Jaipur has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 176 m around an average of 436 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 308 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 540 m.

The land around Jaipur is covered by artificial surfaces (80%) within 3 km, artificial surfaces (37%), cropland (25%) and grassland (21%) within 16 km, and cropland (72%) within 80 km.

3 km
176 m
16 km
308 m
80 km
540 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Pushkar 132 km · Fatehpur Sikri 186 km · Agra 223 km · Delhi 239 km · Jodhpur 286 km · Udaipur 332 km · Rishikesh 431 km · Khajuraho 474 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 Jaipur (26.9196°, 75.7878°, elevation 435 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).