Climate guideThirty-year normals for Lucknow
Lucknow climate by month
Hot-summer Mediterranean · CsaBest Jan–Feb · Dec
Annual mean25°day and night
Seasonal swing17°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation900 mm101 wet days a year
26.84° N, 80.92° EElevation 126 mUTC+5:30 · India Standard Time
When to goLucknow · weather score
Best timeJan–Feb · Dec
October: high / low31° / 20°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Lucknow has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa): dry, sunny summers and mild, wetter winters.
The warmest month is May, when afternoons average 39° and nights 26°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 21° and lows of 9°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 17°.
About 900 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. July is the wettest month (253 mm, 25 wet days) and November the driest (6 mm, 1 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 7% in October to 62% in July.
Compared with New Delhi, the capital, Lucknow is 0.4° cooler on a May afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 39° · May
- Coldest nights
- 9° · January
- Wettest month
- July
- Driest month
- November
- Clearest skies
- October · 7% cloud
- Longest day
- 13 h 49 min
- Shortest day
- 10 h 28 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 | 21° | 25° | 31° | 37° | 39° | 37° | 33° | 32° | 31° | 31° | 27° | 23° |
| Average low | 9° | 12° | 17° | 22° | 26° | 27° | 26° | 26° | 24° | 20° | 14° | 10° |
| Precipitation | 21 mm | 16 mm | 9 mm | 6 mm | 20 mm | 82 mm | 253 mm | 230 mm | 191 mm | 55 mm | 6 mm | 11 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 2.9 | 3 | 2.2 | 2.5 | 6.5 | 13.4 | 24.6 | 24.3 | 16.2 | 3.9 | 0.8 | 0.9 |
| Cloud cover | 13% | 12% | 14% | 11% | 8% | 27% | 62% | 61% | 34% | 7% | 7% | 11% |
| Daylight | 10h 38 | 11h 15 | 11h 58 | 12h 47 | 13h 27 | 13h 49 | 13h 41 | 13h 06 | 12h 20 | 11h 33 | 10h 51 | 10h 28 |
| Month score | 93 | 93 | 69 | 52 | 43 | 26 | 22 | 26 | 39 | 66 | 88 | 98 |
ivMonth by month
Lucknow in every month
January93
21° / 9°
21 mm · 2.9 wet days
February93
25° / 12°
16 mm · 3 wet days
March69
31° / 17°
9 mm · 2.2 wet days
April52
37° / 22°
6 mm · 2.5 wet days
May43
39° / 26°
20 mm · 6.5 wet days
June26
37° / 27°
82 mm · 13.4 wet days
July22
33° / 26°
253 mm · 24.6 wet days
August26
32° / 26°
230 mm · 24.3 wet days
September39
31° / 24°
191 mm · 16.2 wet days
October66
31° / 20°
55 mm · 3.9 wet days
November88
27° / 14°
6 mm · 0.8 wet day
December98
23° / 10°
11 mm · 0.9 wet day