Geography and Climate
Situated in the heart of the great Gangetic plain, Lucknow city is surrounded by its rural towns and villages like the orchard town of Malihabad, historic Kakori, Mohanlal ganj, Gosainganj, Chinhat, Itaunja. On its eastern side lies Barabanki District, on the western side is Unnao District, on the southern side Raebareli District, and on the northern side the Sitapur and Hardoi districts. The Gomti River, the chief geographical feature, meanders through the city, dividing it into the Trans-Gomti and Cis-Gomti regions. Lucknow city is located in the seismic zone III.
Lucknow has a warm humid subtropical climate with cool, dry winters from December to February and dry, hot summers from April to June. The rainy season is from mid-June to mid-September, when Lucknow gets an average rainfall of 896.2 millimetres (35.28 in) from the south-west monsoon winds, and occasionally frontal rainfall will occur in January. In winter the maximum temperature is around 25 °C (77 °F) and the minimum is in the 7 to 9 degrees Celsius range. Fog is quite common from late December to late January. Summers are extremely hot with temperatures rising to the 40 to 45 degree Celsius range, the average highs being in the high 30s.
| Climate data for Lucknow, India | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Average high °C (°F) | 22.6 (72.7) |
26.0 (78.8) |
32.2 (90.0) |
38.1 (100.6) |
40.5 (104.9) |
38.7 (101.7) |
33.6 (92.5) |
32.5 (90.5) |
33.0 (91.4) |
32.5 (90.5) |
28.9 (84.0) |
24.1 (75.4) |
31.9 (89.4) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 6.9 (44.4) |
9.3 (48.7) |
14.2 (57.6) |
20.5 (68.9) |
24.7 (76.5) |
27.1 (80.8) |
26.1 (79.0) |
25.6 (78.1) |
24.3 (75.7) |
19.0 (66.2) |
11.8 (53.2) |
7.4 (45.3) |
18.1 (64.6) |
| Rainfall mm (inches) | 21.9 (0.862) |
11.2 (0.441) |
7.7 (0.303) |
4.9 (0.193) |
16.5 (0.65) |
107.4 (4.228) |
294.3 (11.587) |
313.9 (12.358) |
180.6 (7.11) |
45.2 (1.78) |
3.8 (0.15) |
7.3 (0.287) |
1,014.7 (39.949) |
| Avg. rainy days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 1.6 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 4.2 | 11.6 | 13.1 | 7.4 | 2.0 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 44.2 |
| Source: climatetemp.info | |||||||||||||
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