Satellite: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH · CC BY 4.0 · Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016
Climate guideThirty-year normals for Botad
Botad climate by month
Hot semi-arid · BShBest Jan–Feb · Dec
Annual mean28°day and night
Seasonal swing12°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation791 mm65 wet days a year
22.17° N, 71.67° EElevation 89 mUTC+5:30 · India Standard Time
When to goBotad · weather score
Best timeJan–Feb · Dec
October: high / low35° / 23°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Botad has a hot semi-arid climate (Köppen BSh): little rain, large day–night swings and strong sunshine.
The warmest month is May, when afternoons average 42° and nights 26°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 28° and lows of 14°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 12°.
About 791 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. July is the wettest month (289 mm, 19 wet days) and January the driest (2 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 5% in May to 56% in July.
Compared with New Delhi, the capital, Botad is 2.3° warmer on a May afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 42° · May
- Coldest nights
- 14° · January
- Wettest month
- July
- Driest month
- January
- Clearest skies
- May · 5% cloud
- Longest day
- 13 h 29 min
- Shortest day
- 10 h 47 min
iiCharts
Twelve months at a glance
Temperature and precipitation
Daily high/low range bars, monthly precipitation columnsTemperature curve
Average high, lowDaylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on the 15th of each monthiiiData table
Climate normals month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | 28° | 31° | 36° | 40° | 42° | 38° | 33° | 31° | 33° | 35° | 32° | 29° |
| Average low | 14° | 16° | 21° | 24° | 26° | 27° | 26° | 25° | 24° | 23° | 19° | 16° |
| Precipitation | 2 mm | 1 mm | 1 mm | 1 mm | 5 mm | 141 mm | 289 mm | 182 mm | 135 mm | 25 mm | 9 mm | 0 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 11.1 | 19.2 | 17.9 | 12.2 | 2 | 0.9 | 0.1 |
| Cloud cover | 8% | 6% | 8% | 8% | 5% | 28% | 56% | 53% | 29% | 11% | 9% | 10% |
| Daylight | 10h 55 | 11h 25 | 12h 00 | 12h 39 | 13h 11 | 13h 29 | 13h 22 | 12h 55 | 12h 18 | 11h 40 | 11h 05 | 10h 47 |
| Month score | 86 | 75 | 57 | 56 | 56 | 32 | 23 | 31 | 36 | 53 | 67 | 82 |
ivMonth by month
Botad in every month
January86
28° / 14°
2 mm · 0.1 wet days
February75
31° / 16°
1 mm · 0.1 wet days
March57
36° / 21°
1 mm · 0.3 wet days
April56
40° / 24°
1 mm · 0.7 wet day
May56
42° / 26°
5 mm · 0.8 wet day
June32
38° / 27°
141 mm · 11.1 wet days
July23
33° / 26°
289 mm · 19.2 wet days
August31
31° / 25°
182 mm · 17.9 wet days
September36
33° / 24°
135 mm · 12.2 wet days
October53
35° / 23°
25 mm · 2 wet days
November67
32° / 19°
9 mm · 0.9 wet day
December82
29° / 16°
0 mm · 0.1 wet days