Kozhikode climate by month
What the weather is like
Kozhikode has a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Am): .
The warmest month is March, when afternoons average 30° and nights 26°. August is the coolest month, with highs of 27° and lows of 24°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 3°, a small seasonal swing typical of places tempered by the sea.
About 3,204 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. July is the wettest month (798 mm, 30 wet days) and February the driest (6 mm, 1 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 14% in February to 73% in July.
The sea reaches about 30° in April. Sea temperatures lag the air by a month or two, so late summer is usually warmer for swimming than early summer.
Compared with New Delhi, the capital, Kozhikode is 1.1° warmer on a March afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 30° · March
- Coldest nights
- 24° · December
- Wettest month
- July
- Driest month
- February
- Clearest skies
- February · 14% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 30° · April
- Longest day
- 12 h 47 min
- Shortest day
- 11 h 28 min
Twelve months at a glance
Temperature and precipitation
Daily high/low range bars, monthly precipitation columns, sea temperature lineTemperature curve
Average high, low and seaDaylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on the 15th of each monthClimate normals month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | 29° | 30° | 30° | 30° | 30° | 27° | 27° | 27° | 27° | 28° | 28° | 29° |
| Average low | 24° | 24° | 26° | 26° | 26° | 25° | 24° | 24° | 24° | 24° | 24° | 24° |
| Precipitation | 6 mm | 6 mm | 20 mm | 90 mm | 253 mm | 876 mm | 798 mm | 422 mm | 274 mm | 292 mm | 140 mm | 27 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 5.3 | 1.3 | 6.2 | 13.2 | 25.8 | 28 | 30.2 | 24.7 | 24.7 | 24 | 19.3 | 9.3 |
| Cloud cover | 19% | 14% | 15% | 32% | 49% | 69% | 73% | 69% | 59% | 54% | 42% | 25% |
| Sea temperature | 28° | 29° | 29° | 30° | 30° | 29° | 27° | 27° | 27° | 28° | 29° | 29° |
| Daylight | 11h 32 | 11h 46 | 12h 03 | 12h 22 | 12h 38 | 12h 47 | 12h 43 | 12h 30 | 12h 12 | 11h 53 | 11h 37 | 11h 28 |
| Month score | 71 | 77 | 63 | 45 | 39 | 41 | 42 | 44 | 46 | 46 | 49 | 63 |