Madurai
City in India: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Madurai, India: Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Madurai is a city in India, in Tamil Nadu. About 1.5 million people live in the city proper, making it the 25th largest city of India in our atlas.
It lies at 9.92° N, 78.12° E, about 139 m (456 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the Asia/Kolkata time zone. It sits inside the tropics.
Location
Red dot: Madurai. Green dots: other major cities of India. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Madurai has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw). The warmest month is usually Apr, with average highs near 37°C (98°F); the coolest nights come in Jan at about 18°C (64°F). Around 962 mm (38 in) of rain and snow falls in a typical year, most of it in Oct.
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
- Tiruchirappalli · 118 km
- Tirunelveli · 141 km
- Coimbatore · 175 km
- Kallakurichi · 221 km
- Bengaluru · 344 km
- Chennai · 424 km
- Vijayawada · 782 km
- Hyderabad · 829 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 1264521 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q228405 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Madurai, India: Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- S-TN-23 Thirumalai Naicker Palace Madurai 1: R.K.Lakshmi, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Samanar Malai Caves, Madurai: எஸ்ஸார், CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
