New Delhi
It is 77.0°F at New Delhi/Safdarjung, 17:30 local on Monday. New Delhi is the 20th hottest of 139 capitals by annual mean, and the 119th hottest capital right now.
17:30 local · Monday 28 September 2026
Source: METAR reports from the aerodrome
Normal for this date here is a high of 94.1°F.
Sunday, 4 June 1989
Source: GHCN-Daily
Monday, 31 December 1945
Source: GHCN-Daily
The record for 28 September here is 100.4°F, set in 1980. Today reached 82.4°F.
The whole record bookKuwait City, at 114.8°F. The two ends of the capitals table right now.
See Kuwait CityWhere New Delhi stands
- Among capitals, annual mean
- #20
- of 139
- Among capitals, right now
- #119
- of 213 reporting
- Hottest month
- May
- 103.6°F
- Widest annual swing
- #45
- of 139
New Delhi by month
Normal high · record high · record low- Jan69.1°FHigh 86.0°F · 28 Jan 1991Low 32.0°F · 8 Jan 1975
- Feb75.6°FHigh 93.4°F · 25 Feb 2006Low 35.6°F · 7 Feb 1974
- Mar86.0°FHigh 107.1°F · 31 Mar 1945Low 41.0°F · 5 Mar 1945
- Apr97.9°FHigh 110.3°F · 29 Apr 2009Low 53.1°F · 3 Apr 2021
- May · warmest103.6°FHigh 117.1°F · 25 May 1991Low 60.3°F · 14 May 1982
- Jun102.2°FHigh 118.2°F · 4 Jun 1989Low 64.2°F · 1 Jun 2021
- Jul
Nearby, hottest and coldest
8 of 8 nearby stations reported today.
Capitals with a similar climate
The capitals immediately warmer and cooler than New Delhi by annual mean.
- Manila 89.6°F
- Accra 89.2°F
- Lomé 88.7°F
- Willemstad 88.7°F
- Santo Domingo 88.5°F
- Panama City 88.3°F
How New Delhi’s temperature has been recorded
When did temperature records begin in New Delhi?
The archive held here for New Delhi, India starts in 1944, which is 81 years of record, across 35,814 days with a stored reading.
Which station measures New Delhi's temperature?
New Delhi/Safdarjung (VIDD), 213 m above sea level. Every figure on this page comes from that one station rather than from a city-wide average, so it is a measurement at a known place rather than an estimate for an area.
What is the highest temperature ever recorded in New Delhi?
118.2°F, on 4 June 1989, in the record held for New Delhi/Safdarjung. That is the highest daily maximum in the archive for this station, not a national record and not an official figure: those are set by national meteorological services.
What is the lowest temperature ever recorded in New Delhi?
32.0°F, on 31 December 1945, in the same archive. Like the high, it is the lowest daily minimum this station has recorded rather than an official national figure.
Sources and checks for this page
Live readings come from METAR reports from the aerodrome at New Delhi/Safdarjung. Monthly means and every record on this page are computed from NOAA GHCN-Daily observations stored per station, per year, per month, and the capital list is GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Nothing here is modelled, interpolated or estimated, and a month the archive never covered is left out rather than filled in. See how this is built.