10-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Clear sky
21°
Feels like 24°
Wind↑ ESE 3 km/h
Humidity 64 %
Afternoon
Clear sky
26°
Feels like 29°
Wind↑ NNE 6 km/h
Humidity 46 %
11-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Clear sky
20°
Feels like 20°
Wind↑ SE 3 km/h
Humidity 59 %
Afternoon
Clear sky
25°
Feels like 28°
Wind↑ ESE 4 km/h
Humidity 46 %
12-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Clear sky
20°
Feels like 23°
Wind↑ NNE 1 km/h
Humidity 62 %
Afternoon
Partly cloudy
26°
Feels like 28°
Wind↑ SE 5 km/h
Humidity 46 %
13-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Clear sky
21°
Feels like 24°
Wind↑ NNW 2 km/h
Humidity 59 %
Afternoon
Clear sky
26°
Feels like 28°
Wind↑ N 5 km/h
Humidity 42 %
Varanasi 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)
Varanasi climate: what a normal year looks like
The wet season is concentrated from July to September, which brings 74% of the annual total; July by itself averages 307 mm.
Afternoons reach 30 °C or more from March to October; the typical peak is 40 °C in May.
Day and night differ most in April: 38 °C in the afternoon against 24 °C before dawn, a 14 °C swing.
In 3 months out of twelve, rainfall averages under 10 mm.
Forecast highs for the coming week average 29 °C, 3 °C cooler than a normal October (32 °C).
30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month
Typical high
Typical low
Rainfall
Jan
22 °C
10 °C
18 mm
Feb
27 °C
14 °C
17 mm
Mar
32 °C
18 °C
12 mm
Apr
38 °C
24 °C
7 mm
May
40 °C
27 °C
11 mm
Jun
38 °C
29 °C
145 mm
Jul
33 °C
28 °C
307 mm
Aug
33 °C
27 °C
261 mm
Sep
32 °C
26 °C
171 mm
Oct
32 °C
22 °C
40 mm
Nov
29 °C
16 °C
6 mm
Dec
24 °C
12 °C
7 mm
Whole year
32 °C
21 °C
1,000 mm
Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 25.32° N, 83.01° 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 Varanasi: pollution and pollen
3/6
Moderate
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.523µg/m³
PM1023µg/m³
Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.
Rain radar around Varanasi
Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Varanasi, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.
Rain radarLast two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline
No open weather radar covers Varanasi yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).
Moon over Varanasi
Waning gibbous
79 % illuminated · 19.3 days
Rise 22:56 Set 12:23
Sat31/1069%
Sun1/1159%
Mon2/1149%Last quarter
Tue3/1138%
Wed4/1128%
Thu5/1119%
Fri6/1112%
Sat7/116%
Sun8/112%
Mon9/110%
Tue10/111%New moon
Wed11/113%
Moonrise and moonset in local time (Asia/Kolkata); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.
Look up a past day in Varanasi
Curious about the weather in Varanasi on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.
Varanasi weather at a glance
This page gathers everything about the weather in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “overcast”, it is 21 °C (feels like 28 °C) and the wind blows at 20 km/h.
Expected range today: 20 °C to 24 °C and around 23 mm of rain. 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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