Weather in Jamshedpur in January
India · 20-year averages, January
Prime time. January is about as good as Jamshedpur gets. Highs average 25.5 °C, lows 10.1 °C, and rain falls on 2 days — nothing in the month is working against you.
January ranks 2 of 12 in Jamshedpur. Only December scores clearly higher, and the difference is small enough to be settled by price rather than weather.
Rain falls on only 2 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. Nothing specialised needed — this is the month you pack for the trip rather than for the weather.
What the averages hide
Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: the day swings 15.5 °C from low to high, which means one bag has to cover both. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest January day reached 33.4 °C and the coldest night fell to 2.9 °C.
This is the volatile part. January rainfall has ranged from 0 mm to 60 mm across the twenty years measured — a 60 mm spread around an average of 13 mm. The average is real but almost no individual January looks like it, so treat the figure as the middle of a wide range rather than a forecast.
Wind is light at 5.2 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 61%.
How January sits in the year
Temperatures hold steady either side: 24.8 °C in December, 25.5 here, 30.3 in February. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.
Daylight in January
January sits at the dark end of Jamshedpur's year — 10.9 hours of daylight against 13.5 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 — 30.6 °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 15.5 °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 Jamshedpur versus nearby
If Jamshedpur is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Ranchi is close enough to be a coin toss — 2.3 °C cooler, 1 day more rain. Kolkata is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, the same number of rain days.
So: January is effectively as good as it gets here — 1 points behind December, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.
Every month in Jamshedpur
| Month | High °C | Low °C | Rain days | Rain mm | Humidity % | Daylight h | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 25.5 | 10.1 | 2 | 13 | 61 | 10.9 | 97 |
| February | 30.3 | 13.8 | 3 | 16 | 52 | 11.4 | 80 |
| March | 35.8 | 19 | 5 | 23 | 41 | 12 | 48 |
| April | 40.5 | 24 | 8 | 43 | 39 | 12.7 | 30 |
| May | 40.7 | 26.3 | 15 | 102 | 50 | 13.2 | 22 |
| June | 36.2 | 26.8 | 22 | 230 | 69 | 13.5 | 24 |
| July | 31.9 | 25.5 | 27 | 356 | 85 | 13.4 | 38 |
| August | 30.9 | 25.2 | 27 | 329 | 88 | 12.9 | 40 |
| September | 30.4 | 24.4 | 22 | 247 | 88 | 12.3 | 43 |
| October | 29.3 | 20.7 | 11 | 98 | 81 | 11.7 | 67 |
| November | 27 | 15.2 | 2 | 9 | 74 | 11.1 | 97 |
| December | 24.8 | 11 | 1 | 10 | 68 | 10.7 | 98 |
See all twelve months in Jamshedpur, or where else to go in January.
Planning the rest of the trip
- Where to eat & stay in Jamshedpur every café, restaurant and hotel
- Flight time to Jamshedpur how long you are actually in the air
- Jamshedpur time zone and the difference from home
- Days until your trip count down to the departure date