India Climate Monitor tracking

A live temperature record for India

How hot is India getting?

Two centuries of warming, the country today, and your own city — day by day. Built on the same reanalysis the world's monitors use: ERA5 (Copernicus), Berkeley Earth and Open-Meteo.

Every year since 1817 cool → warm, vs the mid-century average
1850190019502000 1817 2020
2016
India's warmest year on record, at +0.68°C vs the 1991–2020 normal
+0.91°C
warmer in the 2010s than the 1940s, India-wide
8/10
of the ten warmest years have come since 2011
13th
where 2025, the latest full year, ranks of 86

The modern record

Eighty years of warming, one line

India's annual average temperature as a difference from the 1991–2020 normal. Each point is a year; the soft band is a ten-year trend. Hover for any year.

-2 -1.5 -1 -0.5 0 +0.5 +1 19401960198020002020 1991–2020 normal
Source: ERA5 / Copernicus, all-India area average, 1940–2025.

Where it's warming fastest

The mountains are heating quickest of all

How much each state has warmed — the 2015-2024 average against the 1951-1980 baseline. The Himalayan north leads; the deep south warms slowest.

Decade by decade

The line that won't go back down

Average anomaly per decade (ERA5, vs 1991–2020). Cool blue gives way to warm ember.

1940s
-0.69
1950s
-0.83
1960s
-0.48
1970s
-0.39
1980s
-0.29
1990s
-0.30
2000s
+0.03
2010s
+0.22
2020s
+0.25

The Pacific's pulse

El Niño and La Niña, the master switch

Sea-surface temperature in the central Pacific (the Niño-3.4 region), as a difference from normal. Above the warm line is El Niño; below the cool line is La Niña. This one patch of ocean nudges weather worldwide — including India's monsoon.

NOAA El Niño Advisory (11 June 2026) — El Niño underway, weekly Niño-3.4 +0.7°C and strengthening. · 63% chance of a very strong El Niño by November-January 2026-27

The slower 3-month ONI still reads +0.48°C (Neutral) for MAM 2026 — it lags the fast-rising weekly value, which is why a chart built on ONI alone looks calm.

-2 -1 0 +1 +2 +3 19901995200020052010201520202025 +0.7° now (weekly) 63% chance very strong by winter →
El Niño (> +0.5°C) La Niña (< −0.5°C) dashed arrow = NOAA official outlook (categorical, not a numeric plume)

Source: NOAA CPC — Oceanic Niño Index, Niño-3.4 3-month running anomaly. Current through MAM 2026, fetched 2026-06-06.

What moves the monsoon

The Pacific has a hand on India's rain

Each bar is one monsoon's all-India rainfall, above or below normal, coloured by whether the Pacific was in an El Niño (warm) or La Niña (cool) state that summer. El Niño years lean dry; La Niña years lean wet.

El Niño monsoons since 1950: -3.2% on average · La Niña monsoons: +5.9%

-30 -20 -10 0 +10 +20 +30 19501960197019801990200020102020 % vs normal monsoon
El Niño year La Niña year Neutral

Source: NOAA CPC — Oceanic Niño Index for the ENSO state; IMD all-India June–September rainfall departure from normal.

Your city

Down to the day, where you live

How this year is tracking against the 1991–2020 normal, the warming fingerprint month by month, and the long trend.

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This year vs normal

Every year since 1950 as a faint line; the recent years picked out. Hover to read any day.

Warming, month by month

Each cell is one month's anomaly vs its 1991–2020 normal. Cool blue to warm ember. Hover a cell.

The long trend, and the road to 2050

Annual average temperature vs the 1991–2020 normal, with a ten-year trend and the CMIP6 climate-model projection ahead.

Humid heat: the danger is how it feels

Days each year that felt like 40°C or hotter once you fold in humidity (apparent temperature). The darker base is the truly dangerous "felt like 45°C and up" days.

How this is built

A static page rebuilt by a weekly job, so the figures stay current. Three independent datasets, on purpose: Berkeley Earth for the deep historical record (back to 1817), ERA5 / Copernicus reanalysis for the modern national record and the year ranking, and Open-Meteo's ERA5-backed daily reanalysis for the 38 cities. They use different baselines (1951–1980 and 1991–2020), so anomaly numbers are not directly comparable — each chart states its own.

City records start in 1950 (ERA5's earlier back-extension is less reliable); daily means are the reanalysis values, never reconstructed from the day's high and low.

Data generated 2026-06-13 · national record + 38 cities · beta