Weather in Nagpur in August
India · 20-year averages, August
A hard month. August is a hard month in Nagpur, and worth planning around. You should expect rain on 24 days of the month, which is more days wet than dry.
August ranks 6 of 12 in Nagpur: past the worst of the year but short of December, which is the month to book if the dates are open.
Rain on 24 of the month's 31 days, 9 of them heavy. At that frequency a wet-weather backup is not a contingency, it is the itinerary — book the indoor things first and treat the clear days as the bonus. Natural fibres and a second shirt for the day. At 87% nothing dries, including you.
What the averages hide
Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: 13 days top 30 °C — hot spells arrive, but they break; the day barely swings — 6 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest August day reached 33.4 °C and the coldest night fell to 21.4 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 106 mm — roughly 34% of the month's rain in one day.
August is statistically steady but not small: the year-to-year variation is modest in relative terms, yet the wettest August on record still delivered 526 mm against 181 mm in the driest. In a month this wet, even a tame spread is a lot of rain in absolute terms — the 310 mm average is a reasonable planning figure, not a promise.
Wind is light at 9.5 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity at 87% is the real story though — it is the number that decides how the day feels, not the 29.5 °C.
How August sits in the year
Temperatures hold steady either side: 30.8 °C in July, 29.5 here, 30 in September. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much. Rain is the thing that moves: September brings 6 days less of it, so pushing the dates later buys drier weather.
Daylight in August
August is at or near the longest days of Nagpur's year: 12.9 hours of daylight, losing 0.5 hours across the month. Evenings are the real gain — dinner outdoors still happens in full light.
An inland climate
With no coast nearby, the year swings a fair way — 31.7 °C between the warmest afternoons and the coldest nights, wider than any coastal city at this latitude would manage.
How busy it gets
Shoulder. The value months — prices ease off and you get the place closer to itself.
Crowd levels are estimated from climate desirability and school-holiday calendars, not from visitor numbers.
August in Nagpur versus nearby
If Nagpur is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Jabalpur is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day more rain. Raipur is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 2 days more rain.
So: August is a compromise. December is 44 points better and is what Nagpur is actually like at its best — worth moving the trip for if that is possible, and worth adjusting expectations for if it is not.
Every month in Nagpur
| Month | High °C | Low °C | Rain days | Rain mm | Humidity % | Daylight h | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 29.4 | 12.2 | 2 | 15 | 43 | 11 | 86 |
| February | 33.2 | 15.6 | 2 | 10 | 35 | 11.4 | 69 |
| March | 37.5 | 20.2 | 4 | 20 | 29 | 12 | 30 |
| April | 41.8 | 25.2 | 3 | 13 | 23 | 12.6 | 30 |
| May | 43.9 | 29.1 | 4 | 21 | 25 | 13.1 | 30 |
| June | 37.1 | 27 | 17 | 223 | 58 | 13.4 | 20 |
| July | 30.8 | 24.1 | 25 | 361 | 82 | 13.3 | 46 |
| August | 29.5 | 23.5 | 24 | 310 | 87 | 12.9 | 47 |
| September | 30 | 22.8 | 18 | 200 | 85 | 12.3 | 47 |
| October | 29.7 | 19.3 | 6 | 48 | 76 | 11.7 | 77 |
| November | 29.1 | 15.2 | 2 | 10 | 68 | 11.1 | 87 |
| December | 28.7 | 12.2 | 1 | 3 | 56 | 10.9 | 91 |
See all twelve months in Nagpur, or where else to go in August.
Planning the rest of the trip
- Where to eat & stay in Nagpur every café, restaurant and hotel
- Flight time to Nagpur how long you are actually in the air
- Nagpur time zone and the difference from home
- Days until your trip count down to the departure date