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Best time to visit Ujjain

India · South Asia

All twelve months scored on daily temperature, rainfall, humidity and holiday crowding.

The year in Ujjain

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  1. Ujjain in January: sweet spot
  2. Ujjain in February: sweet spot
  3. Ujjain in March: good, busy
  4. Ujjain in April: avoid
  5. Ujjain in May: avoid
  6. Ujjain in June: avoid
  7. Ujjain in July: avoid
  8. Ujjain in August: avoid
  9. Ujjain in September: ok
  10. Ujjain in October: sweet spot
  11. Ujjain in November: good, busy
  12. Ujjain in December: good, busy
  • Sweet spot
  • Good
  • OK
  • Avoid
  • Busy
Go in Jan, Feb or Oct — these months score within a whisker of each other; 28C max, 0 rainy days. Nov is the next best.

Dry season: Oct–May, 6 or fewer rainy days a month.

Things to do in Ujjain

  • Mahakaleshwar Temple One of the main attractions of Ujjain and one of the 12 Jyotirlingas.
  • Kal Bhairav Temple Temple in India
  • Chintaman Ganesh temple Built across the Shipra on the Fatehabad railway line.
  • Jantar Mantar Like the Jantar Mantars in Delhi and Jaipur, this one is also built by Maharaja Jai Singh II in 1725.
  • Kaliadeh Palace 15th century palace in central India
  • Gopal Mandir This huge temple is in the middle of the big market square.

Tours and tickets in Ujjain

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Sights and their lines from Wikivoyage (Ujjain), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, and Wikidata; in order of how often each one's Wikipedia article was read on phones in the last 12 months.

Month by month

No fare history for this route yet, so this ranking is climate and crowds only — the price column will fill in as the scanner collects.

MonthMax °CRain days HumiditySun h/day VerdictWhy
Jan 24° 1d 64% 9.9h sweet spot 24C max, 1 rainy day
Feb 28° 0d 48% 10.7h sweet spot 28C max, 0 rainy days
Mar 33° 0d 33% 11.6h goodbusy holidays: IN: Eid al-Fitr (estimated)
Apr 38° 0d 25% 11.8h avoid extreme heat: 27 days over 35C
May 39° 0d 33% 11.7h avoid extreme heat: 30 days over 35C
Jun 35° 8d 61% 9.7h avoid extreme heat: 17 days over 35C
Jul 29° 17d 84% 6.3h avoid monsoon: 17 rainy days, 364mm
Aug 28° 15d 86% 6.7h avoid monsoon: 15 rainy days, 322mm
Sep 29° 13d 84% 8.4h ok 29C max, 13 rainy days
Oct 31° 2d 61% 10.4h sweet spot 31C max, 2 rainy days
Nov 29° 1d 54% 10.4h goodbusy busier than usual
Dec 25° 1d 62% 9.4h goodbusy busier than usual

Rain days are the days with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts them.

Weather read at the Mahakaleshwar temple: ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

A busy month is a crowded one, not a bad one — usually it is crowded because the weather is good. It is flagged rather than scored down, and crowds alone never make a month “avoid”: that is reserved for weather worth skipping.

How busy it gets

Busiest in August, November and December; quietest in May, June and September.

Then and now

Ujjain's August days now average 28.2°C, 0.8°C warmer than in 1981–1990. 1 of 12 months are clearly warmer, 2 clearly cooler.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
1981–9025.7°27.8°32.9°37.4°39.3°35.7°29.3°27.4°29.6°31.2°28.6°26.2°
2017–2624.4°28.4°33.1°37.8°39.2°35.1°29.4°28.2°29.1°30.8°28.6°25.0°
Change-1.3°+0.6°+0.2°+0.5°-0.1°-0.6°+0.0°+0.8°-0.5°-0.4°+0.1°-1.1°

The average daily high, month by month, for the nearest ERA5 grid cell. Bold is a clear change; grey is within the ordinary spread between years. Every destination, ranked.

Getting there

Fly into Indore (IDR), then drive. The flights under Where to book are to Indore.

The drive from each airport is the road's, from openrouteservice.org by HeiGIT: typical, not a schedule.

How far Ujjain is, and what it costs, depends on where you set off from — the months above do not.

Before you go

Type C and D plugs at 230 V. Drives on the left. The currency is the Indian rupee. UK Foreign Office: avoid all travel to parts. Everything for India: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.

Being there

On arrival

  • Paying — Cards are taken at larger hotels, chain stores and many restaurants; small shops and family-run businesses rarely take them, so carry some cash.
  • Tipping — Not traditional; up to 10% is usual only in smarter restaurants. Taxi and auto-rickshaw drivers do not expect a tip.

Getting around Ujjain

  • Apps — Rides: Ola, Rapido, Uber. Maps: Google Maps, Apple Maps. Messages: WhatsApp. The apps also book auto-rickshaws, and bike taxis where these are allowed.

Help

  • Emergency — 112 (any emergency).
    TravelCharika is not an emergency service: we cannot call for help or send anyone. Numbers can change; if one fails, ask someone local or your hotel.

Put together by hand from the sources listed, checked 3 October 2026. Apps, cards and rules change, so check before you rely on one.

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Ujjain in pictures

Harsiddhi Temple, Ujjain 02
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Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Harsiddhi Temple, Ujjain 01
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Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

What Ujjain is like

Ujjain (Hindi: उज्जैन, Sanskrit: उज्जयिनी Ujjayinī) is a city in the Malwa region of Madhya Pradesh in India. It is home to the Mahakaleshwar Temple, one of the Jyotirlingas of India, and famous for the Hindu pilgrimage Kumbh Mela, gathering hundreds of millions of pilgrims every 12 years. More on Wikivoyage

Worth seeing
Bhartrihari Caves. These caves are just above the bank of the Shipra near the temple of Gadkalika. More on Wikivoyage
Getting in
Ujjain is well connected with rest of India by road and rail, but there is no airport. The closest airport is in Indore, 52 km away. More on Wikivoyage

From the Wikivoyage article on Ujjain, written by travellers and licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the full article has far more. The numbers above are measured; this is experience.

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Ujjain is in India, South Asia. Distances are great-circle, so a short one can still be a long way round.

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