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Salem weather

Tamil Nadu · 917,414 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 22:22

Air: Very poor Moderate storm risk · Sun, Tue, Wed

30°

Clear sky

Feels like 37°C

Wind

3 km/h

Gusts

6 km/h

Humidity

53 %

Pressure

1010 hPa

Clouds

0 %

Storm

Rise 06:08 Set 17:53 Day 11 h 44 min UV 10 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Clear sky

25°23°

Feels like 32°

Wind ↑ S 5 km/h

Humidity 68 %

23:00

25°

S 5

02:00

20°

W 3

Salem forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

≈ A week close to the usual temperatures

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

Hourly detail

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

Salem climate: what a normal year looks like

Afternoons reach 30 °C or more from February to October; the typical peak is 36 °C in April.

The hottest stretch is April, when afternoons average 36 °C; the coldest is December, when nights average 20 °C.

Days are almost the same length all year: 12 h 48 min of daylight in late June, 11 h 26 min in late December.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 30 °C, 1 °C cooler than a normal October (31 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	30 °C	19 °C	6 mm
Feb	32 °C	21 °C	9 mm
Mar	35 °C	24 °C	18 mm
Apr	36 °C	26 °C	56 mm
May	36 °C	26 °C	97 mm
Jun	33 °C	24 °C	99 mm
Jul	32 °C	24 °C	102 mm
Aug	32 °C	24 °C	113 mm
Sep	32 °C	24 °C	138 mm
Oct	31 °C	23 °C	182 mm
Nov	29 °C	22 °C	129 mm
Dec	29 °C	20 °C	54 mm
Whole year	32 °C	23 °C	1,000 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 11.65° N, 78.16° 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 Salem: pollution and pollen

5/6

Very poor

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.556µg/m³

PM1063µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Salem

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

Moon over Salem

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 22:41 Set 11:09

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 Salem

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

Salem weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Salem, 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 “clear sky”, it is 30 °C (feels like 37 °C) and the wind blows at 3 km/h.

Expected range today: 20 °C to 31 °C and a dry sky; 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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Coimbatore 148 km 29°

Bengaluru 159 km 28°

Vellore 176 km 31°

Mysuru 180 km 30°

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