Haryana Weather Forecast & Climate Summary
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.
Geography & Seasonal Cycle
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.
Weather Systems by Season
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.
Seasonal Weather Data
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).
Recorded Extremes (IMD 1951–2025 Gridded Data)
- Highest maximum temperature recorded (Jhajjar): 47.6°C — 9 Jun 1966
- Lowest minimum temperature recorded (Fatehabad): -1.0°C — 7 Feb 1974
- Highest 24-hour rainfall recorded (Yamunanagar): 444 mm — 2 Jul 1956
- Highest monthly rainfall recorded (Ambala): 1077 mm — Aug 1995
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.
Risk Profile
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.
Haryana Weather Highlights
- Haryana's climate closely mirrors Punjab's — a short, western-disturbance-dominated winter and a monsoon that is shorter and lighter than most of India because the state sits near the edge of the monsoon's reach.
- Its southern districts, closest to the Thar Desert, see meaningfully more intense pre-monsoon heat than the rest of the state.
- Haryana's autumn stubble-burning smog receives outsized national attention because of its direct, well-documented contribution to Delhi-NCR's air quality crisis each year.
All 22 Districts
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).