LOCATION:
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY, SHIBPUR, HOWRAH, IN KOLKATA,
WEST BENGAL
ACCESS:
3m wide road
Howrah railway station 5km
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport, Kolkata 18 km
BE COLLEGE BUS STOP
GEOLOGY
Indo-Gangetic Plain, the soil and water are predominantly alluvial in origin. Kolkata is located over the
"Bengal basin", a pericratonic tertiary basin.
CLIMATE
Kolkata are in the middle and the summers are that easy to define.
The best time to visit are February, March, October, November.
The month with the highest relative humidity is September (86.52 %). The month with the lowest
relative humidity is March (59.17 %).
The month with the highest number of rainy days is August (28.00 days). The month with the lowest
number of rainy days is December (1.17 days).
Kolkata has a tropical climate. In winter, there is much less rainfall in Kolkata than in
summer. The Köppen-Geiger climate classification is Aw. The temperature here
averages 26.0 °C | 78.8 °F. The annual rainfall is 1656 mm | 65.2 inch.
CLIMATE GRAPH // WEATHER BY MONTH KOLKATA
The driest month is December, with 11 mm | 0.4 inch of rainfall. With an average of 365
mm | 14.4 inch, the most precipitation falls in July.
AVERAGE TEMPERATURE KOLKATA
The warmest month of the year is May, with an average temperature of 30.6 °C | 87.0
°F. January has the lowest average temperature of the year. It is 19.0 °C | 66.2 °F.
WEATHER BY MONTH // WEATHER AVERAGES KOLKATA
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Janu Febru Marc April May June July Augu Septe Octo Nove Dece
ary ary h st mber ber mber mber
Avg. Temperature 19 °C 22.7 27.1 29.9 30.6 29.5 28.1 27.9 27.6 26.3 23.3 20.1
°C (°F) (66.2) °C °C °C °C °C °C °C °C °C °C °C
°F (72.9) (80.8) (85.8) (87) (85.2) (82.6) (82.2) (81.6) (79.4) (74) (68.1)
°F °F °F °F °F °F °F °F °F °F °F
Min. Temperature 12.9 16.5 21.4 25.5 26.9 27 °C 26.1 25.8 25.3 23 °C 18.4 14.5
°C (°F) °C °C °C °C °C (80.5) °C °C °C (73.4) °C °C
(55.3) (61.7) (70.5) (77.8) (80.5) °F (78.9) (78.4) (77.5) °F (65.1) (58.1)
°F °F °F °F °F °F °F °F °F °F
Max. Temperature 25.3 29 °C 33.3 35.7 35.4 33.1 31.1 31 °C 30.8 30.2 28.5 25.9
°C (°F) °C (84.1) °C °C °C °C °C (87.7) °C °C °C °C
(77.5) °F (91.9) (96.2) (95.7) (91.6) (87.9) °F (87.5) (86.3) (83.3) (78.6)
°F °F °F °F °F °F °F °F °F °F
Precipitation / 12 27 35 63 127 277 365 312 260 135 32 11
Rainfall mm (in) (0) (1) (1) (2) (5) (10) (14) (12) (10) (5) (1) (0)
Humidity(%) 64% 61% 59% 67% 73% 81% 85% 86% 87% 82% 70% 65%
Rainy days (d) 1 2 3 6 9 16 21 21 18 10 2 1
avg. Sun hours 9.1 9.3 9.7 9.7 8.9 8.7 8.2 7.8 7.8 8.3 8.9 8.8
(hours)
Data: 1991 - 2021 Min. Temperature °C (°F), Max. Temperature °C (°F), Precipitation / Rainfall
mm (in), Humidity, Rainy days. Data: 1999 - 2019: avg. Sun hours
The difference in precipitation between the driest month and the wettest month is 354
mm | 14 inch. During the year, the average temperatures vary by 11.6 °C | 20.9 °F.
HOURS OF SUNSHINE IN KOLKATA
avg. hours of sun
Total hours of sun
In Kolkata, the month with the most daily hours of sunshine is March with an average of
9.73 hours of sunshine. In total there are 301.55 hours of sunshine throughout March.
The month with the fewest daily hours of sunshine in Kolkata is January with an
average of 7.83 hours of sunshine a day. In total there are 234.95 hours of sunshine in
January.
Around 3197.95 hours of sunshine are counted in Kolkata throughout the year. On
average there are 105.19 hours of sunshine per month.
