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Thoothukudi weather

Tamil Nadu · 410,760 inhabitants · Friday, October 30 · updated 02:03

Clear sky
28°
Clear sky
Feels like 38°C
Wind
18 km/h
Gusts
20 km/h
Humidity
76 %
Pressure
1010 hPa
Clouds
2 %
Storm
No
Rise 06:06 Set 17:55 Day 11 h 49 min UV 10 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Night
Mainly clear
Mainly clear
28°
Feels like 39°
Wind ↑ SW 18 km/h
Humidity 81 %
Morning
Mainly clear
Mainly clear
30°28°
Feels like 41°
Wind ↑ S 5 km/h
Humidity 69 %
Afternoon
Clear sky
Clear sky
30°29°
Feels like 42°
Wind ↑ S 19 km/h
Gusts 25 km/h
Humidity 77 %
Evening
Clear sky
Clear sky
29°
Feels like 42°
Wind ↑ S 24 km/h
Humidity 82 %
05:00
Mainly clear
28°
WSW 10
08:00
Mainly clear
28°
NW 4
11:00
Clear sky
30°
S 5
14:00
Clear sky
29°
SSE 19
17:00
Clear sky
30°
S 17
20:00
Clear sky
29°
S 24
23:00
Clear sky
29°
S 7
02:00
Clear sky
28°
0.1mm
S 11

Thoothukudi forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +1.7° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
25°27°29°30°32°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed29°27°Thu 29 Oct: max 30° · min 28° · normal 26.7°Fri 30 Oct: max 30° · min 28° · normal 26.7°Sat 31 Oct: max 30° · min 28° · normal 26.7°Sun 1 Nov: max 29° · min 27° · normal 26.7°Mon 2 Nov: max 29° · min 27° · normal 26.6°Tue 3 Nov: max 29° · min 27° · normal 26.6°Wed 4 Nov: max 29° · min 27° · normal 26.6°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu25°28°31°30°27°07
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Thoothukudi climate: what a normal year looks like

Afternoons reach 30 °C or more from February to October; the typical peak is 35 °C in May.

The wet season is concentrated from October to December, which brings 65% of the annual total; November by itself averages 275 mm.

The hottest stretch is May, when afternoons average 35 °C; the coldest is December, when nights average 24 °C.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 29 °C, 3 °C cooler than a normal October (32 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan30 °C23 °C38 mm
Feb31 °C24 °C33 mm
Mar33 °C26 °C46 mm
Apr34 °C27 °C60 mm
May36 °C28 °C46 mm
Jun35 °C27 °C24 mm
Jul34 °C27 °C18 mm
Aug34 °C27 °C25 mm
Sep34 °C27 °C40 mm
Oct32 °C26 °C199 mm
Nov30 °C25 °C276 mm
Dec29 °C24 °C139 mm
Whole year33 °C26 °C940 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 8.77° N, 78.13° 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 Thoothukudi: pollution and pollen

4/6
Poor
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.537µg/m³
PM1042µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Thoothukudi

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

Full-screen rain radar and next-hour rain on RainAtlas
Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

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

Moon over Thoothukudi

Waning gibbous
79 % illuminated · 19.3 days
Rise 23:53 Set 12:05
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
Wed 11/11 3%

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

Look up a past day in Thoothukudi

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

Thoothukudi weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Thoothukudi, 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 28 °C (feels like 38 °C) and the wind blows at 18 km/h.

Expected range today: 28 °C to 30 °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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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations