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Weather extremes
How extreme does New Delhi's weather get?
The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days New Delhi has recorded — the outer limits of what its weather can do, and how far they sit beyond a normal day.
The four kinds of extreme
The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest single days New Delhi has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year looks like.
That is about 16°F hotter than a normal June afternoon in New Delhi (typical high near 102°F).
The three most extreme on record
About 13°F colder than a normal January night in New Delhi (typical low near 45°F).
The three most extreme on record
More rain in a single day than New Delhi usually gets in the whole month of July (typical July total about 9.3 in).
The three most extreme on record
How hot and cold it gets, month by month
The shaded band is the normal range of daily temperatures for each month. The dots show the most extreme it has ever been — so you can see how far beyond a normal day the records really sit.
New Delhi's record heat sits well above even a hot day for the season — June's 118°F is about 16°F beyond a normal hot afternoon. Its record cold is just as far below a normal winter night — the dots mark how rare each extreme really is.
In plain terms
Methodology & sources
Temperature & precipitation — 1991–2020 normals computed from 28 years of daily observations at New Delhi/safdarjun, a weather station, about 5 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.