Desert forts and lake palaces in India's north-west, where the pre-monsoon heat is genuinely dangerous. Daytime highs in Rajasthan run from about 23 °C in January to 40 °C in May, an annual range of roughly 17 °C.
Measured against a city trip, the conditions hold up December to February. January is the most consistent single month: highs near 23 °C, nights around 9 °C, and roughly 2 mm of rain across the month.
What rules months out here is temperature and rainfall, not any composite judgement. Rainfall is sharply seasonal: August averages 143 mm against 2 mm in January, so the wet season is the real planning constraint rather than heat or cold. March is the weakest month on these criteria.
What Rajasthan is known for
- Amber Fort, the Hawa Mahal and Jaipur's City Palace are the core of the Pink City
- Udaipur's Lake Palace appears to float on Lake Pichola
- Jaisalmer is a living fort — people still inhabit the walls, which is causing them to fail
- The Pushkar camel fair fills the desert town each autumn
Month by month
| Month | High °C | Low °C | Precip mm | Wet days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 23 | 9 | 2 | 1.0 |
| February | 26 | 12 | 3 | 1.0 |
| March | 32 | 17 | 11 | 1.3 |
| April | 37 | 22 | 5 | 1.4 |
| May | 40 | 26 | 7 | 2.8 |
| June | 38 | 27 | 59 | 6.6 |
| July | 33 | 26 | 138 | 15.0 |
| August | 31 | 25 | 143 | 15.2 |
| September | 33 | 23 | 69 | 8.3 |
| October | 33 | 21 | 11 | 1.9 |
| November | 29 | 15 | 3 | 0.8 |
| December | 24 | 11 | 10 | 0.6 |
Ticked rows are months where every hard requirement for a city trip is met across at least half the month.
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Nearby regions
Figures are 30-year climatology sampled at Jaipur, Udaipur, Jodhpur, Jaisalmer and Pushkar, averaged across those locations, from ERA5-Land reanalysis fitted with a harmonic seasonal cycle and a trend term, evaluated for 2026. Sampling named towns rather than averaging the whole region avoids blending valley and mountain conditions into a figure true of neither. Cells are about 0.08° wide, from ERA5-Land's 0.1° grid, which is itself driven by a 0.25° (~28 km) atmospheric reanalysis — so individual valleys, sheltered bays and single summits are not resolved. In steep terrain read these as conditions for the wider area rather than for one village. They describe typical conditions, not a forecast. Read how the climatology is built.