Tirukkalikkunram, India Climate
The warmest month is May, with an average high of 39°C; the coldest is January, with an average low of 21°C. A normal year brings 1219 mm of precipitation.
Temperature through the year
The normal daily high and low and the record for every date at Madras/Minambakkam, since 1901. The line marks today.
- Normal low
- Normal high
- Record high
- Record low
Normals for Sep 29
- Normal high
- 34°C
- Record high
- 37°Cin 1980
- Record low
- 21°Cin 2011
- Chance of a wet day
- 68%
- Daylight
- 12 h 02 min
Month by month
Averages for 1991-2020. Wet days have at least 1 mm of precipitation in the reanalysis. Each month links to its own page.
| Month | Avg high | Avg low | Record high | Record low | Precipitation | Wet days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 30°C | 21°C | 35°C (1998) | 12°C (2002) | 16 mm | 3.1 |
| February | 32°C | 22°C | 38°C (1981) | 15°C (1974) | 11 mm | 0.0 |
| March | 34°C | 24°C | 41°C (2021) | 18°C (1989) | 12 mm | 0.0 |
| April | 36°C | 26°C | 43°C (2006) | 20°C (1981) | 24 mm | 3.0 |
| May | 39°C | 28°C | 45°C (2003) | 22°C (1996) | 56 mm | 6.2 |
| June | 38°C | 43°C (2012) | 20°C (1976) | 72 mm | 12.0 | |
| July | 36°C | 26°C | 40°C (2015) | 21°C (1985) | 90 mm | 15.5 |
| August | 35°C | 40°C (2004) | 20°C (1983) | 121 mm | 18.6 | |
| September | 35°C | 25°C | 39°C (2024) | 20°C (1990) | 129 mm | 21.0 |
| October | 33°C | 24°C | 40°C (1977) | 20°C (2000) | 239 mm | 21.7 |
| November | 31°C | 23°C | 39°C (1992) | 17°C (2012) | 300 mm | 18.0 |
| December | 29°C | 21°C | 33°C (2010) | 17°C (1981) | 149 mm | 9.3 |
| Year | 34°C | 1219 mm | 128 |
Precipitation
Rain and melted snow together. The chance of a wet day is the share of days with at least 1 mm of precipitation in the reanalysis.
1219 mm in a normal year, most in November.
Chance of a wet day
- Chance of a wet day
Humidity and comfort
NASA POWER reanalysis, 1991-2020, for the grid cell around Tirukkalikkunram.
The muggiest month is April, when 100 percent of days are muggy or worse, with a mean dew point of 18°C or more.
| Month | Dew point | Humidity | Dry | Comfortable | Humid | Muggy | Oppressive | Miserable |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 20°C | 77% | 0% | 0% | 16% | 63% | 21% | 0% |
| February | 20°C | 73% | 0% | 0% | 14% | 55% | 30% | 0% |
| March | 21°C | 69% | 0% | 0% | 5% | 38% | 54% | 2% |
| April | 23°C | 69% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 4% | 72% | 24% |
| May | 24°C | 67% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 2% | 47% | 51% |
| June | 23°C | 67% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 4% | 75% | 20% |
| July | 23°C | 69% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 3% | 85% | 12% |
| August | 23°C | 73% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 1% | 72% | 27% |
| September | 24°C | 77% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 1% | 54% | 45% |
| October | 24°C | 80% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 4% | 48% | 48% |
| November | 23°C | 82% | 0% | 0% | 2% | 15% | 58% | 25% |
| December | 21°C | 80% | 0% | 0% | 8% | 45% | 43% | 4% |
Comfort is judged by the day's mean dew point: dry below 13°C, comfortable to 16°C, humid to 18°C, muggy to 21°C, oppressive to 24°C, miserable above.
Clouds
Average share of the sky covered, from satellite (CERES and GEWEX SRB) by way of NASA POWER, 1991-2020.
The clearest month is March, with the sky 33 percent covered on average; the cloudiest is July, at 83 percent.
Wind
The mean wind speed over the whole day, from the MERRA-2 reanalysis by way of NASA POWER. Gusts run well above it.
The windiest month is June, averaging 18.0 km/h at 10 meters (33 feet) above the ground.
Daylight and sunshine
The longest day is Jun 12, with 12 h 52 min of daylight; the shortest is Dec 14, with 11 h 23 min.
- Day length
Solar energy
Average daily sunshine reaching the ground on a flat surface, in kilowatt-hours per square meter, clouds included.
Month pages
The weather in Tirukkalikkunram in each month, day by day.
What this means
A normal is the average of the thirty years 1991 to 2020, the period the World Meteorological Organization and NOAA use for comparison. It is an average, not a forecast: most days depart from it, and some by a long way.
A record is the highest or lowest value on the date in every year the station has reported, back to 1901. It rests on one station, so a neighbor a few miles away can hold different ones.
Cloud, humidity, wind and sunshine come from a reanalysis: a weather model run over the past with every observation fed in, averaged over a grid cell about 50 km across. It is consistent everywhere on Earth; it smooths local detail such as a lake shore or a valley.
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Sources
Records: NOAA GHCN-Daily, station IN020040900, every year on file, quality-flagged values removed. Cloud, humidity, wind and sunshine: NASA POWER (MERRA-2, CERES and GEWEX SRB), 1991-2020. The data was obtained from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center's Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) project funded through the NASA Earth Science Division: POWER Daily API v2, accessed 2026-09-25. Sun and moon: computed with the NOAA solar equations and Meeus.