Climate Madurai Airport 2020-2024

Climate and trends: average temperature, flight conditions, precipitation, wind speed and direction.

Calculated from historical METAR data of Madurai Airport (VOMD) between 2020 and 2024.

VFR conditions (%)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	3.7	0	0	1	0	11
February	8.6	0	14	2	0	6
March	10.4	0	10	2	8	12
April	13.8	2	11	13	4	7
May	24.8		13	32	51	12
June	44.5		44	54	33	67
July	44.0		47	43	59	38
August	39.3		40	52	41	29
September	32.0		33	54	26	27
October	15.1		7	23	18	33
November	1.9		1	0	3	3
December	1.1		0	0	0	2
Average	18.5	0.3	19.5	24.0	21.3	21.1

10th best VFR conditions of India

VFR conditions during daylight period

Percentage of observations where the VFR minimums for ceiling and visibility are met: visibility of 8 km or more and a ceiling of 3,000 ft or more. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Marginal VFR conditions (%)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	66.4	43	65	78	55	88
February	82.7	76	78	81	85	90
March	86.5	77	85	89	95	96
April	91.5	85	91	92	91	100
May	95.2		92	99	98	99
June	98.5		99	98	99	100
July	98.5		99	95	100	100
August	97.7		98	98	98	99
September	96.4		97	97	99	99
October	77.3		59	87	70	90
November	56.8		62	39	62	63
December	48.1		42	46	51	44
Average	82.2	70.3	80.4	84.4	84.1	89.0

Marginal VFR conditions or better during daylight period

Percentage of observations where the MVFR minimums for ceiling and visibility are met: visibility of 5 km or more and a ceiling of 1,000 ft or more. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Maximum temperatures (°C)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	31.6	31	32	33	30	33
February	33.5	35	33	33	32	34
March	36.3	36	35	37	35	37
April	37.7	38	36	37	37	38
May	37.8		38	37	36	39
June	37.6		38	37	37	39
July	36.7		37	35	37	37
August	36.4		38	35	36	38
September	35.3		36	35	36	35
October	33.6		34	34	34	36
November	31.5		32	31	31	31
December	30.8		31	31	31	29
Average	34.9	34.9	34.8	34.6	34.1	35.4

2nd highest temperature of India

Average highest temperature per day

The maximum temperature is typically observed some hours after noon.

Minimum temperatures (°C)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	22.1	23	21	23	23	22
February	22.3	24	21	24	21	23
March	24.1	25	23	25	24	24
April	26.1	27	26	25	26	25
May	26.6		27	27	26	27
June	26.6		27	26	26	27
July	26.5		27	26	26	26
August	25.7		25	25	26	26
September	25.1		26	25	25	25
October	24.7		24	24	25	25
November	23.7		24	23	24	23
December	23.0		24	23	23	23
Average	24.6	24.4	24.5	24.6	24.5	24.8

62nd lowest temperature of India

Average lowest temperature per day

The minimum temperature is typically observed just before sunrise.

Precipitation (%)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	1.8	3	0	1	8	0
February	0.5	0	2	1	0	0
March	0.5	0	1	1	0	0
April	0.8	2	3	2	1	0
May	1.1		0	3	2	1
June	1.0		1	1	2	0
July	1.8		2	3	1	2
August	2.4		2	4	1	2
September	2.4		2	2	3	6
October	3.9		3	3	5	2
November	6.6		6	6	10	7
December	4.2		6	3	1	12
Average	2.1	1.2	2.3	2.3	2.8	2.6

Precipitation during daylight period

Percentage of observations with observed rain, drizzle, snow or hail. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Wind speed (knots)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	5.6	7	7	6	3	6
February	6.2	8	7	6	6	7
March	4.9	6	6	6	5	5
April	4.2	6	4	4	4	5
May	4.8		4	6	5	5
June	6.9		6	5	7	7
July	7.9		10	8	8	6
August	6.9		6	7	6	8
September	4.9		6	5	5	6
October	4.1		5	4	4	5
November	4.6		6	4	4	5
December	5.5		7	5	6	5
Average	5.6	6.6	6.1	5.4	5.2	5.8

2nd highest wind speed of India

Average wind speed

Excluding wind gusts. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Prevailing wind direction

Month	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	062°	056°	060°	050°	056°
February	068°	060°	059°	061°	061°
March	084°	076°	065°	080°	076°
April	090°	092°	117°	098°	101°
May		185°	277°	258°	194°
June		289°	273°	283°	277°
July		277°	277°	279°	283°
August		290°	276°	287°	279°
September		257°	291°	282°	268°
October		092°	004°	327°	283°
November		055°	052°	051°	044°
December		053°	038°	057°	038°

Prevailing wind direction

Average wind direction, weighed by wind speed. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.