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Climate guideThirty-year normals for Malerkotla
Malerkotla climate by month
Hot semi-arid · BShBest Jan · Nov–Dec
Annual mean24°day and night
Seasonal swing20°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation620 mm96 wet days a year
30.53° N, 75.88° EElevation 251 mUTC+5:30 · India Standard Time
When to goMalerkotla · weather score
Best timeJan · Nov–Dec
October: high / low31° / 18°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Malerkotla 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 39° and nights 24°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 18° and lows of 6°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 20°, a large swing typical of continental interiors.
About 620 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. August is the wettest month (150 mm, 22 wet days) and November the driest (6 mm, 1 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 4% in October to 34% in July.
Compared with New Delhi, the capital, Malerkotla is 0.4° cooler on a May afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 39° · May
- Coldest nights
- 6° · January
- Wettest month
- August
- Driest month
- November
- Clearest skies
- October · 4% cloud
- Longest day
- 14 h 06 min
- Shortest day
- 10 h 11 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 | 18° | 21° | 27° | 35° | 39° | 39° | 34° | 33° | 33° | 31° | 26° | 21° |
| Average low | 6° | 9° | 13° | 19° | 24° | 26° | 26° | 25° | 23° | 18° | 12° | 8° |
| Precipitation | 23 mm | 26 mm | 24 mm | 18 mm | 26 mm | 61 mm | 164 mm | 150 mm | 101 mm | 9 mm | 6 mm | 12 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 3.6 | 5.2 | 5.3 | 4.5 | 5.7 | 12.4 | 21.4 | 21.7 | 10.7 | 1.9 | 1.4 | 2.1 |
| Cloud cover | 22% | 22% | 23% | 19% | 15% | 14% | 34% | 33% | 11% | 4% | 8% | 17% |
| Daylight | 10h 23 | 11h 06 | 11h 57 | 12h 54 | 13h 41 | 14h 06 | 13h 57 | 13h 17 | 12h 23 | 11h 28 | 10h 38 | 10h 11 |
| Month score | 92 | 88 | 78 | 48 | 45 | 29 | 28 | 34 | 43 | 69 | 91 | 95 |
ivMonth by month
Malerkotla in every month
January92
18° / 6°
23 mm · 3.6 wet days
February88
21° / 9°
26 mm · 5.2 wet days
March78
27° / 13°
24 mm · 5.3 wet days
April48
35° / 19°
18 mm · 4.5 wet days
May45
39° / 24°
26 mm · 5.7 wet days
June29
39° / 26°
61 mm · 12.4 wet days
July28
34° / 26°
164 mm · 21.4 wet days
August34
33° / 25°
150 mm · 21.7 wet days
September43
33° / 23°
101 mm · 10.7 wet days
October69
31° / 18°
9 mm · 1.9 wet days
November91
26° / 12°
6 mm · 1.4 wet day
December95
21° / 8°
12 mm · 2.1 wet days