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Ranchi weather

Jharkhand · 1,120,374 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 22:20

Drizzle
21°
Drizzle
Feels like 29°C
Wind
17 km/h
Gusts
44 km/h
Humidity
98 %
Pressure
1013 hPa
Clouds
100 %
Storm
No
Rise 05:52 Set 17:12 Day 11 h 20 min UV 3 · Low

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Evening
Light rain
Light rain
21°18°
Feels like 29°
Wind ↑ E 24 km/h
Gusts 44 km/h
Humidity 99 %
💧 3.6 mm
23:00
Light rain
21°
3.2mm
ESE 18
02:00
Overcast
18°
0.1mm
E 17

Ranchi forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +1.6° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
16°19°22°25°28°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed26°19°Thu 29 Oct: max 21° · min 18° · normal 20.9°Fri 30 Oct: max 23° · min 19° · normal 20.7°Sat 31 Oct: max 26° · min 20° · normal 20.6°Sun 1 Nov: max 26° · min 20° · normal 20.6°Mon 2 Nov: max 25° · min 21° · normal 20.4°Tue 3 Nov: max 26° · min 20° · normal 20.3°Wed 4 Nov: max 26° · min 19° · normal 20.2°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu16°22°28°26°18°014
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Ranchi climate: what a normal year looks like

The wet season is concentrated from June to August, which brings 65% of the annual total; July by itself averages 342 mm.

Afternoons reach 30 °C or more from March to June; the typical peak is 36 °C in May.

The hottest stretch is May, when afternoons average 36 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average 11 °C.

A normal year brings roughly 1,370 mm of rain — more than 71% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 25 °C, 3 °C cooler than a normal October (28 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan23 °C11 °C19 mm
Feb27 °C14 °C24 mm
Mar31 °C18 °C28 mm
Apr35 °C22 °C27 mm
May36 °C25 °C57 mm
Jun33 °C25 °C240 mm
Jul29 °C24 °C342 mm
Aug29 °C24 °C313 mm
Sep29 °C23 °C215 mm
Oct28 °C20 °C80 mm
Nov26 °C15 °C13 mm
Dec23 °C11 °C12 mm
Whole year29 °C19 °C1,370 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 23.34° N, 85.31° 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 Ranchi: pollution and pollen

4/6
Poor
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.529µg/m³
PM1029µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Ranchi

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Ranchi, 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 Ranchi yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Ranchi

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 21:42 Set 11:08
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 Ranchi

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

Ranchi weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Ranchi, Jharkhand: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “drizzle”, it is 21 °C (feels like 29 °C) and the wind blows at 17 km/h.

Expected range today: 18 °C to 21 °C and around 4 mm of rain; keep an eye on thunderstorms. 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.

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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations