Indore
City in India: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Indore Rajwada: Deolekar, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Indore is a city in India, in Madhya Pradesh. About 2.0 million people live in the city proper, making it the 15th largest city of India in our atlas.
It lies at 22.72° N, 75.83° E, about 550 m (1,804 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the Asia/Kolkata time zone. It sits inside the tropics.
Location
Red dot: Indore. Green dots: other major cities of India. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Indore has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw). The warmest month is usually May, with average highs near 42°C (108°F); the coolest nights come in Jan at about 11°C (51°F). Around 922 mm (36 in) of rain and snow falls in a typical year, most of it in Jul.
Bars: average daily high and low (°C) for each month; blue columns and figures: average precipitation (mm). Gridded 2001-2025 averages from NASA POWER, so mountain and coastal spots can differ from local station records.
Landmarks and places to see
Popular sights within a few kilometres of the city centre, ranked by how widely they are documented on Wikipedia.
What to eat in IndiaNational dishes, street food, desserts and drinks on Intercontinental Chef.Nearby major cities
- Bhopal · 171 km
- Vadodara · 273 km
- Kota · 274 km
- Aurangabad · 319 km
- Ahmedabad · 334 km
- Surat · 351 km
- Nashik · 367 km
- Nagpur · 376 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 1269743 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q66616 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Indore Rajwada: Deolekar, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Rajwada Palace, Indore: Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Moderne Maharajah, Musée des arts décoratifs, Paris 3 October 2019 02: Jean-Pierre Dalbéra from Paris, France, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Lalbagh palace, Indore: Dipan S, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
