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Madurai weather

Tamil Nadu · 1,465,625 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 23:13

Air: Extremely poor Hot · 2 d Moderate storm risk · Sat, Sun, Mon

27°

Mainly clear

Feels like 38°C

Wind

1 km/h

Gusts

4 km/h

Humidity

82 %

Pressure

1012 hPa

Clouds

25 %

Storm

Rise 06:07 Set 17:55 Day 11 h 47 min UV 10 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Mainly clear

27°

Feels like 38°

Wind ↑ ESE 4 km/h

Humidity 82 %

23:00

27°

N 1

02:00

24°

NW 8

Madurai forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +1.8° warmer than usual

Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)

Hourly detail

Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Madurai climate: what a normal year looks like

Afternoons reach 30 °C or more from January to November; the typical peak is 38 °C in May.

The hottest stretch is May, when afternoons average 38 °C; the coldest is December, when nights average 22 °C.

The wet season is concentrated from September to November, which brings 50% of the annual total; October by itself averages 191 mm.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 32 °C, 2 °C cooler than a normal October (34 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	31 °C	21 °C	16 mm
Feb	34 °C	23 °C	18 mm
Mar	37 °C	25 °C	29 mm
Apr	38 °C	27 °C	56 mm
May	38 °C	27 °C	72 mm
Jun	37 °C	27 °C	49 mm
Jul	36 °C	26 °C	55 mm
Aug	36 °C	26 °C	75 mm
Sep	36 °C	26 °C	92 mm
Oct	34 °C	25 °C	191 mm
Nov	31 °C	23 °C	174 mm
Dec	30 °C	22 °C	85 mm
Whole year	35 °C	25 °C	910 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 9.92° N, 78.12° E, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.

Air you breathe in Madurai: pollution and pollen

6/6

Extremely poor

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.583µg/m³

PM1087µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Madurai

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Madurai, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

No open weather radar covers Madurai yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Madurai

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 22:45 Set 11:05

Fri 30/10 79%

Sat 31/10 69%

Sun 1/11 59%

Mon 2/11 49% Last quarter

Tue 3/11 38%

Wed 4/11 28%

Thu 5/11 19%

Fri 6/11 12%

Sat 7/11 6%

Sun 8/11 2%

Mon 9/11 0%

Tue 10/11 1% New moon

Moonrise and moonset in local time (Asia/Kolkata); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Madurai

Curious about the weather in Madurai on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.

Madurai weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Madurai, Tamil Nadu: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “mainly clear”, it is 27 °C (feels like 38 °C) and the wind blows at 1 km/h.

Expected range today: 24 °C to 33 °C and a dry sky; keep an eye on thunderstorms; it will be very hot. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms.

Other big cities nearby

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Tiruppur 157 km 25°

Erode 164 km 26°

Coimbatore 175 km 24°

Salem 193 km 25°

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