Weather in Aurangabad in January
India · 20-year averages, January
Prime time. If you get to pick your dates, January is the one. Highs average 29.9 °C, lows 12.9 °C, and rain falls on 1 days — nothing in the month is working against you.
January ranks 2 of 12 in Aurangabad. Only December scores clearly higher, and the difference is small enough to be settled by price rather than weather.
Rain falls on only 1 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. Pack for 29.9 °C days and 12.9 °C nights; the spread matters more here than any single number.
What the averages hide
Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: 15 days top 30 °C — hot spells arrive, but they break; the day swings 16.9 °C from low to high, which means one bag has to cover both. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest January day reached 35.4 °C and the coldest night fell to 6.6 °C.
January is dependably dry, and that reliability is the point: across the twenty years measured, the wettest January on record still only managed 17 mm, and the driest managed 0 mm. There is no meaningful variability to plan around, which makes this one of the few months anywhere that you can build a fixed outdoor itinerary against without a fallback. The wettest single day in twenty years of Januarys brought 13 mm. Rain simply is not the variable that decides this trip — heat, crowds and cost are.
Wind is light at 6.4 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and the air is dry at 38% humidity, which makes the heat far more bearable than the same figure somewhere humid — and dehydrates you faster than you expect.
How January sits in the year
Temperatures hold steady either side: 29.2 °C in December, 29.9 here, 33.3 in February. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.
Daylight in January
January sits at the dark end of Aurangabad's year — 11 hours of daylight against 13.3 at midsummer, holding steady all month. Sightseeing days are genuinely shorter, and an itinerary built for summer will not fit.
An inland climate
With no coast nearby, the year swings a fair way — 27.7 °C between the warmest afternoons and the coldest nights, wider than any coastal city at this latitude would manage. Within January itself the daily swing is 16.9 °C, so mornings and afternoons need different clothes.
How busy it gets
Peak season. Expect the highest prices of the year and to be booking well ahead.
Crowd levels are estimated from climate desirability and school-holiday calendars, not from visitor numbers.
January in Aurangabad versus nearby
If Aurangabad is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Nashik is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day less rain. Pune is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day less rain.
So: January is effectively as good as it gets here — 4 points behind December, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.
Every month in Aurangabad
| Month | High °C | Low °C | Rain days | Rain mm | Humidity % | Daylight h | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 29.9 | 12.9 | 1 | 3 | 38 | 11 | 85 |
| February | 33.3 | 15.8 | 1 | 3 | 29 | 11.5 | 70 |
| March | 36.4 | 19.1 | 2 | 13 | 26 | 12 | 48 |
| April | 39.7 | 22.7 | 1 | 6 | 24 | 12.6 | 30 |
| May | 40.6 | 24.7 | 2 | 14 | 33 | 13.1 | 30 |
| June | 34.4 | 23.9 | 16 | 140 | 64 | 13.3 | 36 |
| July | 30.3 | 22.4 | 20 | 184 | 78 | 13.2 | 50 |
| August | 29.3 | 21.6 | 19 | 174 | 82 | 12.8 | 53 |
| September | 29.2 | 21.1 | 17 | 177 | 83 | 12.3 | 53 |
| October | 29.7 | 18.7 | 8 | 60 | 72 | 11.7 | 72 |
| November | 29.4 | 15.7 | 3 | 21 | 63 | 11.2 | 83 |
| December | 29.2 | 13.3 | 1 | 3 | 49 | 10.9 | 89 |
See all twelve months in Aurangabad, or where else to go in January.
Planning the rest of the trip
- Where to eat & stay in Aurangabad every café, restaurant and hotel
- Flight time to Aurangabad how long you are actually in the air
- Aurangabad time zone and the difference from home
- Days until your trip count down to the departure date