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Climate guideThirty-year normals for Kolar
Kolar climate by month
Tropical savanna · AwBest Jan–Feb · Dec
Annual mean24°day and night
Seasonal swing7°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation776 mm136 wet days a year
13.14° N, 78.13° EElevation 848 mUTC+5:30 · India Standard Time
When to goKolar · weather score
Best timeJan–Feb · Dec
October: high / low27° / 19°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Kolar has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw): .
The warmest month is April, when afternoons average 34° and nights 21°. December is the coolest month, with highs of 25° and lows of 15°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 7°, a small seasonal swing typical of places tempered by the sea.
About 776 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. August is the wettest month (100 mm, 20 wet days) and February the driest (5 mm, 1 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 14% in March to 69% in July.
Compared with New Delhi, the capital, Kolar is 2.7° cooler on a April afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 34° · April
- Coldest nights
- 15° · January
- Wettest month
- August
- Driest month
- February
- Clearest skies
- March · 14% cloud
- Longest day
- 12 h 54 min
- Shortest day
- 11 h 21 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 | 26° | 29° | 32° | 34° | 33° | 29° | 28° | 28° | 28° | 27° | 26° | 25° |
| Average low | 15° | 16° | 19° | 21° | 22° | 21° | 20° | 20° | 20° | 19° | 17° | 15° |
| Precipitation | 3 mm | 5 mm | 15 mm | 35 mm | 90 mm | 66 mm | 77 mm | 100 mm | 148 mm | 160 mm | 59 mm | 18 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 1.8 | 0.5 | 2.2 | 5 | 15.5 | 14.5 | 17.2 | 19.7 | 18 | 19 | 16 | 7 |
| Cloud cover | 26% | 16% | 14% | 22% | 36% | 63% | 69% | 66% | 58% | 52% | 46% | 37% |
| Daylight | 11h 26 | 11h 43 | 12h 03 | 12h 25 | 12h 44 | 12h 54 | 12h 50 | 12h 34 | 12h 13 | 11h 51 | 11h 32 | 11h 21 |
| Month score | 90 | 80 | 65 | 53 | 31 | 35 | 38 | 41 | 43 | 49 | 58 | 81 |
ivMonth by month
Kolar in every month
January90
26° / 15°
3 mm · 1.8 wet days
February80
29° / 16°
5 mm · 0.5 wet day
March65
32° / 19°
15 mm · 2.2 wet days
April53
34° / 21°
35 mm · 5 wet days
May31
33° / 22°
90 mm · 15.5 wet days
June35
29° / 21°
66 mm · 14.5 wet days
July38
28° / 20°
77 mm · 17.2 wet days
August41
28° / 20°
100 mm · 19.7 wet days
September43
28° / 20°
148 mm · 18 wet days
October49
27° / 19°
160 mm · 19 wet days
November58
26° / 17°
59 mm · 16 wet days
December81
25° / 15°
18 mm · 7 wet days