Varanasi month by month
Plan your visit to Varanasi by month. Compare weather, crowds, events, and prices across all twelve months with historical climate data.
- January
- High
- 21°C
- Low
- 10°C
- Rain
- 12 mm
January in Varanasi means fog. Not a gentle haze, but the dense, grey blanket that settles over the Indo-Gangetic Plain and routinely grounds flights at Lal Bahadur Shastri…
- February
- High
- 27°C
- Low
- 13°C
- Rain
- 10 mm
February in Varanasi likely gives you the most comfortable weather window of the year for exploring this city on foot. Afternoons reach about 27°C (80°F), warm enough for a single…
- March
- High
- 33°C
- Low
- 19°C
- Rain
- 12 mm
March in Varanasi means one thing above all else. Holi. The city's celebration of the festival of colors tends to run longer and wilder than most Indian cities, often stretching…
- April
- High
- 39°C
- Low
- 24°C
- Rain
- 2 mm
April in Varanasi is, to put it plainly, hot. The average high reaches 38.9°C (102°F) with lows around 23.8°C (75°F), and by mid-month the stone lanes of the old city feel like a…
- May
- High
- 39°C
- Low
- 27°C
- Rain
- 41 mm
May in Varanasi is, to put it plainly, punishing. Afternoon temperatures regularly push above 40°C (104°F), and the loo, a dry westerly wind that rolls off the Gangetic plain, can…
- June
- High
- 38°C
- Low
- 28°C
- Rain
- 158 mm
June in Varanasi is, honestly, one of the toughest months to visit. Daytime temperatures average 38.2°C (101°F), and when the monsoon arrives around mid-month, it turns the dry…
- July
- High
- 34°C
- Low
- 27°C
- Rain
- 304 mm
July is Varanasi at its wettest. The monsoon delivers about 304mm of rain across 23 days, and the Ganges swells into a wide brown torrent that swallows the lower steps of…
- August
- High
- 32°C
- Low
- 26°C
- Rain
- 306 mm
August in Varanasi means the Ganges has swallowed the lower ghats. That is the single most important thing to understand about this month. With 306mm of rain spread across roughly…
- September
- High
- 32°C
- Low
- 26°C
- Rain
- 256 mm
September in Varanasi means the Ganges is still swollen from 3 months of monsoon rainfall. The river covers the lower steps at Dashashwamedh Ghat and Assi Ghat, sometimes climbing…
- October
- High
- 31°C
- Low
- 22°C
- Rain
- 98 mm
October in Varanasi belongs to the Ramlila. The UNESCO-recognized Ramlila of Ramnagar, a weeks-long open-air theatrical retelling of the Ramayana performed across the river at…
- November
- High
- 28°C
- Low
- 16°C
- Rain
- 5 mm
November is Dev Deepawali month, and that alone puts Varanasi on the short list. On Kartik Purnima, the full moon of the Hindu month of Kartik, more than a million earthen oil…
- December
- High
- 23°C
- Low
- 12°C
- Rain
- 10 mm
December in Varanasi means fog. Dense, white, ground-level fog rolls off the Ganges most mornings and does not lift until 10 or 11 AM, turning the ghats into something closer to a…