Climate and average weather in Jodhpur

In Jodhpur, the summers are sweltering, dry, and clear and the winters are warm and clear.

Best: early January to late February

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Jodhpur typically varies from 11°C to 41°C, and is rarely below 7°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 Jodhpur for warm-weather activities are from early January to late February and late November to late December.

Hottest
May
41°
Coldest
Jan
11°
Wettest
Jul
108 mm
Driest
Dec
1 mm
Rain / yr
298 mm
37 wet days
Daylight
10.4–13.6 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
237 m
26.3°N
Clearest
Oct
11% cloud

Jodhpur is city in Rajasthan, India.

Air quality
Severe
PM10 239.8 µg/m³ · 2019
Density
4,533/km²
people per km²
Founded
1459

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

Jodhpur 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 late February.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 3.0 months, from April 5 to July 5, with daily high temperatures above 37°C. The hottest month of the year in Jodhpur is May, with an average high of 41°C and low of 29°C.

The cool season lasts 2.2 months, from December 8 to February 13, with daily high temperatures below 27°C. The coldest month of the year in Jodhpur is January, with an average low of 11°C and high of 24°C.

Days typically run about 12°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 14°C) in November.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2411
Feb2714
Mar3319
Apr3825
May4129
Jun3929
Jul3528
Aug3326
Sep3526
Oct3522
Nov3116
Dec2612

How hot and cold Jodhpur 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, Jodhpur feels like about 44°C (around June 17). About 241 days a year carry some heat stress, and 122 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)
Jan24241111
Feb27271414
Mar33331919
Apr38382525
May41412929
Jun44392929
Jul42352828
Aug39332626
Sep38352626
Oct35352222
Nov30311616
Dec26261212

Average hourly temperature in Jodhpur

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 41°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 11°C.

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

Jodhpur 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
Jan24° / 11°30.710.59.4
Feb27° / 14°40.711.18.3
Mar33° / 19°20.611.84.7
Apr38° / 25°30.912.61.3
May41° / 29°51.113.30.0
Jun39° / 29°263.913.60.5
Jul35° / 28°1081113.52.3
Aug33° / 26°9811.912.93.3
Sep35° / 26°384.812.23.2
Oct35° / 22°8111.43.4
Nov31° / 16°20.510.76.5
Dec26° / 12°10.210.49.1

Chance of rain

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

Jodhpur gets about 298 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is mostly dry, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 3.4 months, from around Jun 10 to Sep 20, peaking in August at about 45% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Dec 13.

July is the wettest month by volume, with 108 mm over about 11 wet days; December is the driest, with 1 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 2 · 45%Dec 13 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan21
Feb31
Mar21
Apr31
May41
Jun134
Jul3511
Aug3812
Sep175
Oct31
Nov21
Dec10

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Jodhpur collects about 298 mm of rain across 37 wet days — roughly 25 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. July is the wettest month with 108 mm, while December is the driest at just 1 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 82% of the year’s total.

0255075100125JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec34235261089838821
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan31
Feb41
Mar21
Apr31
May51
Jun264
Jul10811
Aug9812
Sep385
Oct81
Nov21
Dec10

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Jodhpur, 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 16 and lasts for 9.1 months, ending around June 19. The clearest month is May, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 97% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around June 20 and lasts for 2.9 months, ending around September 15. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 70% 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 · 98%Aug 3 · 16%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan9010
Feb919
Mar8614
Apr8911
May973
Jun8218
Jul3268
Aug3070
Sep7723
Oct964
Nov937
Dec9010

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 4, brings about 13 h 36 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 10 h 24 min — a swing of roughly 3 h 12 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan10.57:326:03
Feb11.17:206:25
Mar11.86:536:42
Apr12.66:206:57
May13.35:567:13
Jun13.65:497:27
Jul13.55:597:29
Aug12.96:147:10
Sep12.26:286:37
Oct11.46:426:04
Nov10.77:035:44
Dec10.47:235:45

Sunny days

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

Jodhpur averages about 22 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 2 and 29 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 9.0 months, from around Sep 18 to Jun 18. The sunniest month is May, with roughly 28 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is August, down near 5 sunny days — about 82% fewer than the May peak.

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantMay 2629 daysAug 42 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan26Brilliant
Feb23Brilliant
Mar24Brilliant
Apr24Brilliant
May29Brilliant
Jun22Bright
Jul6Gloomy
Aug5Gloomy
Sep20Bright
Oct29Brilliant
Nov27Brilliant
Dec26Brilliant

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 5.0 months, from around May 12 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 11, 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 9 · 100%Jul 6 · 0%miserablemuggyoppressivehumiddrycomfortablecomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan9820000
Feb9640000
Mar9451000
Apr80144100
May3218212540
Jun341033419
Jul00094546
Aug00074151
Sep2511293419
Oct4621161151
Nov85113100
Dec9730000

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 Jodhpur is typically light breeze, near 12 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 4.8 months, from around Apr 19 to Sep 10. The windiest month is June, averaging about 18 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Sep 11 to Apr 18, with October the calmest month at about 9 km/h.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezebreezyJun 26 · 18 km/hOct 25 · 8 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan10calm
Feb10calm
Mar11calm
Apr12light breeze
May16light breeze
Jun18light breeze
Jul16light breeze
Aug14light breeze
Sep12calm
Oct9calm
Nov9calm
Dec10calm

Hazard calendar for Jodhpur

In seasonPeak

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

Jodhpur sees seasonal dust haze (April–August), heaviest in June.

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

Best time to visit Jodhpur

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 31 · 9.5

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
Jan9.3ideal
Feb8.3ideal
Mar4.7fair
Apr1.3poor
May0.0poor
Jun0.6poor
Jul2.2poor
Aug3.3poor
Sep3.2poor
Oct3.5poor
Nov6.5good
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 time of year to visit Jodhpur 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 25 · 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 Jodhpur, 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 41°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 24°C), pack light clothes and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In May, Jodhpur sees daytime highs around 41°C and nights near 29°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Jodhpur 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 Jodhpur peaks around August 17 at about 11 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 20 at about 5 (moderate).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecHighVery highExtremeVery highExtremeVery highHighModerateAug 17UV 11Dec 20UV 5
UV index (midday)Level
Jan5Moderate
Feb6High
Mar8Very high
Apr10Very high
May11Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul9Very high
Aug11Extreme
Sep9Very high
Oct8Very high
Nov5High
Dec5Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Jodhpur

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 6 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
Feb5.50
Mar74
Apr7.55
May86
Jun8.56
Jul85.5
Aug86
Sep7.55
Oct6.53.5
Nov50
Dec4.50

Air quality in Jodhpur 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 Jodhpur is worst in June — around 135 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 2.5× the cleanest month (October, 55 µg/m³).

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

0306090120150JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyJun 9135 µg/m³Oct 1457 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan84Unhealthy
Feb75Unhealthy
Mar69Unhealthy
Apr89Unhealthy
May134Unhealthy
Jun135Unhealthy
Jul108Unhealthy
Aug85Unhealthy
Sep68Unhealthy
Oct55Poor
Nov80Unhealthy
Dec85Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Jodhpur 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. Jodhpur banks about 6,273 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)
Jan229
Feb295
Mar497
Apr640
May763
Jun727
Jul664
Aug606
Sep601
Oct572
Nov402
Dec276

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.

Jodhpur receives about 5.6 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.2 and 7.6 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.4 months, from around Feb 22 to Jul 4. The brightest month is May, averaging about 7.5 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 4.3 kWh/m² — roughly 43% less than the May peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseMay 137.6 kWhDec 194.2 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.5Bright
Feb5.4Bright
Mar6.4Intense
Apr7.3Intense
May7.6Intense
Jun6.7Intense
Jul5.0Bright
Aug4.5Bright
Sep5.4Bright
Oct5.4Bright
Nov4.7Bright
Dec4.2Bright

Where is Jodhpur?

Jodhpur sits at 26.3°N, 73.0°E, 237 m above sea level, in India. The nearest listed city is Pushkar, 156 km away.

UdaipurJaisalmerJaipurMultanFatehpur SikriDelhiAgra

What Jodhpur looks like

Topography around Jodhpur

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Jodhpur has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 101 m around an average of 244 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 209 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 502 m.

The land around Jodhpur is covered by artificial surfaces (75%) within 3 km, cropland (41%), shrubs (26%) and artificial surfaces (20%) within 16 km, and cropland (72%) and shrubs (21%) within 80 km.

3 km
101 m
16 km
209 m
80 km
502 m
treesshrubscroplandartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: Pushkar 156 km · Udaipur 200 km · Jaisalmer 221 km · Jaipur 286 km · Multan 462 km · Fatehpur Sikri 471 km · Delhi 494 km · Agra 508 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 Jodhpur (26.2684°, 73.0059°, elevation 237 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).