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Climate guideThirty-year normals for Kolhapur
Kolhapur climate by month
Tropical savanna · AwBest Jan–Feb · Dec
Annual mean25°day and night
Seasonal swing6°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation1,297 mm152 wet days a year
16.70° N, 74.23° EElevation 559 mUTC+5:30 · India Standard Time
When to goKolhapur · weather score
Best timeJan–Feb · Dec
October: high / low29° / 20°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Kolhapur has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw): .
The warmest month is April, when afternoons average 36° and nights 22°. August is the coolest month, with highs of 26° and lows of 22°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 6°, a small seasonal swing typical of places tempered by the sea.
About 1,297 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. July is the wettest month (443 mm, 31 wet days) and February the driest (1 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 6% in February to 77% in July.
Compared with New Delhi, the capital, Kolhapur is 0.4° cooler on a April afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 36° · April
- Coldest nights
- 16° · January
- Wettest month
- July
- Driest month
- February
- Clearest skies
- February · 6% cloud
- Longest day
- 13 h 07 min
- Shortest day
- 11 h 08 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 | 29° | 31° | 34° | 36° | 34° | 29° | 26° | 26° | 27° | 29° | 29° | 29° |
| Average low | 16° | 17° | 20° | 22° | 23° | 23° | 22° | 22° | 21° | 20° | 18° | 16° |
| Precipitation | 3 mm | 1 mm | 3 mm | 17 mm | 61 mm | 209 mm | 443 mm | 284 mm | 156 mm | 96 mm | 19 mm | 5 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 0.5 | 0.2 | 1.3 | 7 | 12.5 | 25.8 | 30.7 | 28.5 | 25.3 | 15 | 3.7 | 1 |
| Cloud cover | 11% | 6% | 9% | 11% | 21% | 62% | 77% | 74% | 56% | 32% | 22% | 16% |
| Daylight | 11h 14 | 11h 36 | 12h 01 | 12h 30 | 12h 54 | 13h 07 | 13h 02 | 12h 42 | 12h 15 | 11h 47 | 11h 22 | 11h 08 |
| Month score | 81 | 73 | 58 | 42 | 31 | 39 | 44 | 46 | 47 | 49 | 73 | 83 |
ivMonth by month
Kolhapur in every month
January81
29° / 16°
3 mm · 0.5 wet day
February73
31° / 17°
1 mm · 0.2 wet days
March58
34° / 20°
3 mm · 1.3 wet day
April42
36° / 22°
17 mm · 7 wet days
May31
34° / 23°
61 mm · 12.5 wet days
June39
29° / 23°
209 mm · 25.8 wet days
July44
26° / 22°
443 mm · 30.7 wet days
August46
26° / 22°
284 mm · 28.5 wet days
September47
27° / 21°
156 mm · 25.3 wet days
October49
29° / 20°
96 mm · 15 wet days
November73
29° / 18°
19 mm · 3.7 wet days
December83
29° / 16°
5 mm · 1 wet day