Gujarat Weather, AQI and Fuel Prices

Why Check Gujarat Weather & Data?

Gujarat runs India's most trade-driven state economy, worth roughly ₹27.9 lakh crore in the 2024-25 budget estimate and about 8.3 percent of national GDP, built on a coastline longer than any other state's, revised in 2025 to 2,340 kilometres. Surat's diamond workshops cut and polish the large majority of the world's diamonds by volume, the state's Jamnagar and Dahej petrochemical complexes anchor a major share of India's refining and petrochemical capacity, and Ahmedabad's textile mills and Rajkot's engineering units round out a manufacturing base that accounts for close to a fifth of the country's industrial output. All of that sits on the Arabian Sea coast, which means this page's live weather numbers carry very different weight for different readers: a Kutch or Saurashtra fisherman checking wind speed before heading out, a Surat diamond polisher whose workshop runs on grid power a cyclone can knock out for days, an Ahmedabad office worker checking the afternoon heat index before a school pickup, a Vadodara logistics firm timing a shipment around monsoon flooding on NH48. Cyclone season and peak summer heat rarely overlap on the calendar, but between them they define most of the state's real weather risk.

Kutch's Cyclones, Ahmedabad's Heat: Gujarat's Two Real Risks

Gujarat's two defining hazards sit at opposite ends of the map and the calendar. Cyclone Biparjoy made landfall near Jakhau Port in Kutch on June 15, 2023, with sustained winds of 115 to 140 kmph; two people died in the run-up to landfall, but disaster authorities credit the evacuation of roughly 109,000 people, including over 10,000 children, with keeping the confirmed post-landfall death toll in Gujarat at zero. The storm still damaged about 500 kutcha houses, uprooted roughly 800 trees, and cut power to nearly 1,000 villages, 40 percent of them in Kutch district alone. Heat is the other real threat: Ahmedabad hit 46.6°C on May 23, 2024, prompting a five-day red alert, with heat-related deaths confirmed that month in Rajkot, Ahmedabad and Banaskantha. The city's memory of 2010, when a week above 48°C killed an estimated 800 people, is exactly why Ahmedabad built India's first city Heat Action Plan, credited with avoiding roughly 1,190 deaths a year since 2013. Monsoon flooding adds a third, less predictable risk: heavy rain across Gujarat in late August 2024 killed at least 28 people, most by drowning, and forced more than 30,000 from their homes, with Vadodara among the worst-hit cities.

How to Use Gujarat's Data for Daily Decisions

Surat's diamond and textile workshop owners should watch grid and cyclone advisories together from June to September, since a Kutch or Saurashtra landfall routinely knocks out power to units hundreds of kilometres inland for days. Saurashtra and Kutch fishermen should treat any cyclone or deep depression watch as a stand-down signal well before wind speeds turn dangerous, since evacuation lead time, not last-minute judgment, is what kept Biparjoy's death toll near zero. Ahmedabad and Vadodara commuters and outdoor workers should check the afternoon heat index through April and May specifically, and shift physical work to before 8am once a red alert is active. Farmers across Saurashtra and north Gujarat's cotton and groundnut belt should track the monsoon's actual progress from south Gujarat northward rather than a single onset date, since Kutch routinely receives its first rain two to three weeks after Surat does. Travellers and logistics firms moving goods along NH48 or the Ahmedabad-Mumbai corridor should check both rainfall and river-level advisories in August, when flooding rather than the cyclone itself has caused the state's more recent mass evacuations.

Gujarat's Seasonal Calendar

Monsoon normally reaches south Gujarat and south Saurashtra around June 15, and takes until roughly June 30 to cover Kutch in the state's north-west, a two-week lag worth tracking separately rather than assuming one onset date for the whole state. Heat season runs March to June, peaking in April and May, when Ahmedabad, Rajkot and the Kutch-Saurashtra belt regularly cross 44°C and occasionally push toward 46°C or higher. Winter, November to February, is short but genuinely cool by Gujarat's standards and the state's main season for outdoor construction, weddings and the Uttarayan kite festival in mid-January, when clear skies are part of the celebration. Navratri in September or October brings nine nights of garba dancing across the state's cities, often overlapping with the tail end of monsoon withdrawal. Cyclone season on the Arabian Sea runs roughly June to September and again briefly in October-November, and travellers to the Kutch or Saurashtra coast in those months should check IMD cyclone advisories alongside the ordinary weather forecast, not instead of it.

Gujarat vs Nearby States: Weather & Data Comparison

Figures from state budget documents, IMD climate statements and dated news reports; each state's rainfall/temperature numbers come from different station sources and years, so treat this as a broad reference, not a single-source dataset.