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Tirunelveli weather

Tamil Nadu · 1,435,844 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 22:35

Air: Poor Heatwave risk · 6 d Moderate storm risk · Mon, Tue, Wed

33°

Mainly clear

Feels like 42°C

Wind

5 km/h

Gusts

25 km/h

Humidity

53 %

Pressure

1009 hPa

Clouds

25 %

Storm

Rise 06:07 Set 17:58 Day 11 h 50 min UV 9 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Clear sky

30°27°

Feels like 37°

Wind ↑ W 12 km/h

Gusts 20 km/h

Humidity 56 %

23:00

27°

WSW 6

02:00

26°

WNW 7

Tirunelveli forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +3.3° warmer than usual

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

Hourly detail

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

Tirunelveli climate: what a normal year looks like

Afternoons reach 30 °C or more from January to November; the typical peak is 37 °C in April.

The hottest stretch is May, when afternoons average 37 °C; the coldest is December, when nights average 22 °C.

The wet season is concentrated from October to December, which brings 57% of the annual total; November by itself averages 246 mm.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 34 °C, 1 °C warmer than a normal October (33 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	31 °C	22 °C	35 mm
Feb	33 °C	23 °C	32 mm
Mar	36 °C	24 °C	42 mm
Apr	37 °C	26 °C	64 mm
May	37 °C	27 °C	62 mm
Jun	35 °C	26 °C	51 mm
Jul	34 °C	26 °C	42 mm
Aug	35 °C	26 °C	46 mm
Sep	35 °C	25 °C	59 mm
Oct	33 °C	25 °C	191 mm
Nov	30 °C	23 °C	246 mm
Dec	30 °C	22 °C	125 mm
Whole year	34 °C	24 °C	990 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 8.73° N, 77.68° 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 Tirunelveli: pollution and pollen

4/6

Poor

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.545µg/m³

PM1050µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Tirunelveli

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

Moon over Tirunelveli

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 22:50 Set 11:04

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.

Sea and tides near Tirunelveli

Tide station used: Tirunelveli

Sea state

Smooth

waves 0.9 m

Period

6 s

Swell

0.4 m

TodayThu 29/10

Low tide 09:51 0.2 m

High tide 15:11 0.6 m

Low tide 21:19 0.1 m

TomorrowFri 30/10

High tide 03:50 0.8 m

Low tide 10:30 0.2 m

High tide 15:46 0.6 m

Low tide 21:33 0.1 m

SatSat 31/10

High tide 04:26 0.8 m

Low tide 11:13 0.3 m

High tide 16:25 0.5 m

Low tide 21:51 0.2 m

SunSun 01/11

High tide 05:07 0.7 m

Low tide 12:11 0.3 m

High tide 17:16 0.5 m

Low tide 22:20 0.3 m

Indicative heights above chart datum. Coefficient: 20 for the weakest tides, 120 for the strongest. · more tide detail on TidesAtlas

Look up a past day in Tirunelveli

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

Tirunelveli weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Tirunelveli, 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 33 °C (feels like 42 °C) and the wind blows at 5 km/h.

Expected range today: 26 °C to 36 °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, plus the tide times for Tirunelveli.

Other big cities nearby

Thoothukudi 50 km 29°

Thiruvananthapuram 85 km 30°

Kanayannur 208 km 30°

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