Satellite: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH · CC BY 4.0 · Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016
Climate guideThirty-year normals for Sunam
Sunam climate by month
Hot semi-arid · BShBest Jan · Nov–Dec
Annual mean24°day and night
Seasonal swing20°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation579 mm87 wet days a year
30.13° N, 75.80° EElevation 245 mUTC+5:30 · India Standard Time
When to goSunam · weather score
Best timeJan · Nov–Dec
October: high / low32° / 18°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Sunam 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 19° and lows of 7°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 20°, a large swing typical of continental interiors.
About 579 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. August is the wettest month (135 mm, 20 wet days) and November the driest (6 mm, 1 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 4% in October to 35% in July.
Compared with New Delhi, the capital, Sunam is 0.1° cooler on a May afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 39° · May
- Coldest nights
- 7° · January
- Wettest month
- August
- Driest month
- November
- Clearest skies
- October · 4% cloud
- Longest day
- 14 h 04 min
- Shortest day
- 10 h 13 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 | 19° | 22° | 28° | 35° | 39° | 39° | 34° | 33° | 33° | 32° | 27° | 21° |
| Average low | 7° | 9° | 14° | 19° | 24° | 27° | 27° | 26° | 24° | 18° | 13° | 8° |
| Precipitation | 18 mm | 23 mm | 19 mm | 17 mm | 25 mm | 63 mm | 150 mm | 135 mm | 103 mm | 10 mm | 6 mm | 10 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 3.4 | 4.5 | 4.4 | 4 | 5.2 | 11.5 | 19.1 | 20 | 9.9 | 1.6 | 1.2 | 1.9 |
| Cloud cover | 21% | 20% | 21% | 17% | 14% | 13% | 35% | 33% | 11% | 4% | 8% | 15% |
| Daylight | 10h 24 | 11h 07 | 11h 57 | 12h 53 | 13h 39 | 14h 04 | 13h 55 | 13h 15 | 12h 22 | 11h 29 | 10h 39 | 10h 13 |
| Month score | 92 | 89 | 77 | 49 | 46 | 31 | 25 | 33 | 43 | 68 | 90 | 96 |
ivMonth by month
Sunam in every month
January92
19° / 7°
18 mm · 3.4 wet days
February89
22° / 9°
23 mm · 4.5 wet days
March77
28° / 14°
19 mm · 4.4 wet days
April49
35° / 19°
17 mm · 4 wet days
May46
39° / 24°
25 mm · 5.2 wet days
June31
39° / 27°
63 mm · 11.5 wet days
July25
34° / 27°
150 mm · 19.1 wet days
August33
33° / 26°
135 mm · 20 wet days
September43
33° / 24°
103 mm · 9.9 wet days
October68
32° / 18°
10 mm · 1.6 wet days
November90
27° / 13°
6 mm · 1.2 wet day
December96
21° / 8°
10 mm · 1.9 wet days