Haryana shares Punjab's continental, western-disturbance-dominated winter and short, light monsoon, but its southern districts push up against the Thar Desert's heat, and its proximity to Delhi means its autumn stubble-burning smog has an outsized, widely reported impact on the National Capital Region's air quality. For live interactive rainfall, wind and satellite maps over Haryana, open VayuMet.
Almost the entire state lies on the flat Indo-Gangetic/Indus plain, part of the same agricultural belt as Punjab. A narrow Aravalli fringe crosses the south (Mahendragarh, Gurugram), the Yamuna forms the eastern border with Uttar Pradesh, and the Ghaggar is a seasonal river in the northwest.
Winter (December-February) is cold and foggy, dominated by western disturbances. Pre-monsoon summer (March-June) is hot and dry, most intense in the south near the Rajasthan border. The monsoon (July-September) is, like Punjab's, shorter and lighter than most of India since the state sits near the edge of the monsoon's reach. Post-monsoon (October-November) is dry and increasingly associated with smog from crop-residue burning.
As in Punjab, western disturbances are Haryana's main winter precipitation source and are typically followed by cold-wave conditions and dense fog once they clear.
Southern Haryana districts such as Mahendragarh and Bhiwani, closest to the Thar Desert, see some of north India's most intense pre-monsoon heat.
Like Punjab, Haryana's monsoon rainfall depends mainly on the stronger Bay of Bengal-origin depressions reaching this far northwest, making its monsoon season shorter and lighter than central or eastern India's.
Large-scale paddy-stubble burning combined with falling temperatures and calm winds produces severe smog across the state, compounding with Delhi-NCR's own pollution to create some of the country's most reported seasonal air-quality crises.
Frequencies cited from published IMD/IITM climatology where a source is named inline; day-count figures in the table below are computed directly from the 1951–2025 IMD daily archive.
The table below is a state-wide average across Haryana's 22 districts, built from IMD's real 1991-2020 gridded rainfall/temperature normals and 1951-2025 daily archives (not a forecast). Southern, more desert-adjacent districts run hotter and drier than this average — use the district climatology tool linked below for any single district's own figures.
| Season | Rainfall (mm) | Rain days | Mean Max / Min (°C) | Typical Hottest / Coldest (°C) | Sky (Sunny·Partly·Overcast days) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winter Jan–Feb | 39.8 | 7.2 | 21.7 / 8.9 | 26.1 / 6.5 | 22.7·36.3·0.0 |
| Pre-Monsoon (Summer) Mar–May | 62.9 | 11.8 | 35.3 / 20.3 | 40.9 / 12.4 | 44.4·47.6·0.0 |
| Monsoon (SW) Jun–Sep | 523.4 | 56.4 | 35.5 / 26.3 | 40.7 / 22.6 | 47.8·73.8·0.4 |
| Post-Monsoon Oct–Dec | 22.9 | 5.0 | 27.7 / 13.3 | 34.7 / 6.3 | 69.7·22.3·0.0 |
State figures are a simple average across 22 member districts (IMD Pune 1991–2020 normal; day-count and sky figures from real 1951–2025 daily archives — see District Climatology tool for any single district's own numbers, which can differ substantially from this state average).
Computed directly from the real IMD 1951–2025 daily gridded archive — not a forecast, and not the same as a single-station record. IMD's gridded temperature is 1°×1° (~111 km/cell) and rainfall is 0.25°×0.25° (~25 km/cell); both are spatial analyses of many station observations; a famous single-station record (e.g. a specific town's all-time hottest day) will typically read higher than the grid-cell value shown here, since one station reading isn't smoothed over a ~25–111 km box. "Place" is the nearest district to the grid cell where the extreme occurred, not necessarily the exact spot.
Pre-monsoon (Apr-Jun). Southern Haryana, bordering the Thar Desert region, sees the state's most intense and sustained pre-monsoon heat.
Monsoon (Jul-Sep). The Yamuna and Ghaggar can flood during heavy monsoon spells or upstream releases, affecting areas along the Haryana-Delhi and Haryana-Punjab borders.
Winter (Dec-Jan). Multi-day fog and cold-wave spells disrupt transport across the state each winter.
Post-monsoon (Oct-Nov). Stubble-burning smoke, combined with temperature inversion and proximity to Delhi-NCR, produces severe seasonal air-quality episodes.
Winter/pre-monsoon (Feb-Apr). Western-disturbance-linked hailstorms threaten the standing wheat crop, as in neighbouring Punjab.
Click a district on the District Climatology tool or search it on the 10-day forecast page for its own normals — the grid below is the full current list (India's Local Government Directory codes, cross-checked against the latest state reorganisation).