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Puri climate by month
What the weather is like
Puri has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw): .
The warmest month is May, when afternoons average 33° and nights 28°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 26° and lows of 19°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 8°, a small seasonal swing typical of places tempered by the sea.
About 1,621 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. July is the wettest month (315 mm, 28 wet days) and December the driest (9 mm, 1 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 10% in February to 77% in July.
The sea reaches about 29° in June. 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, Puri is 6.6° cooler on a May afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 33° · May
- Coldest nights
- 19° · January
- Wettest month
- July
- Driest month
- December
- Clearest skies
- February · 10% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 29° · June
- Longest day
- 13 h 19 min
- Shortest day
- 10 h 57 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 | 26° | 29° | 31° | 32° | 33° | 32° | 30° | 30° | 30° | 30° | 28° | 27° |
| Average low | 19° | 22° | 25° | 27° | 28° | 28° | 27° | 27° | 26° | 25° | 22° | 19° |
| Precipitation | 12 mm | 27 mm | 18 mm | 18 mm | 88 mm | 222 mm | 315 mm | 372 mm | 286 mm | 189 mm | 65 mm | 9 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 1.9 | 2.4 | 4.7 | 8.9 | 14.9 | 22.1 | 27.8 | 27.4 | 23.9 | 13.4 | 2.8 | 1.4 |
| Cloud cover | 12% | 10% | 11% | 13% | 22% | 65% | 77% | 74% | 62% | 35% | 23% | 16% |
| Sea temperature | 25° | 26° | 27° | 28° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 28° | 26° |
| Daylight | 11h 03 | 11h 30 | 12h 00 | 12h 35 | 13h 04 | 13h 19 | 13h 13 | 12h 49 | 12h 16 | 11h 43 | 11h 13 | 10h 57 |
| Month score | 90 | 79 | 63 | 49 | 35 | 24 | 26 | 29 | 33 | 46 | 79 | 90 |