page_title: North India
section_title: General climate
hierarchical_section_title: North India / Geography / General climate
caption_attribution_description: English: South Asia- Köppen-Geiger climate classification map is based on native vegetation, temperature, precipitation and their seasonality. &#160;&#160; (Af) Tropical rainforest &#160;&#160; (Am) Tropical monsoon &#160;&#160; (Aw) Tropical savanna, wet &amp; dry &#160;&#160; (BWh) Hot desert &#160;&#160; (BWk) Cold desert &#160;&#160; (BSh) Hot semi arid &#160;&#160; (BSk) Cold semi arid &#160;&#160; (Csa) Mediterr. dry, hot summ. &#160;&#160; (Cwa) Subtropical humid summ, dry winter &#160;&#160; (Cwb) Subtropical highland, dry wint &#160;&#160; (Cfa) Subtropical humid summ (no dry)
context_page_description: North India is a loosely defined region consisting of the northern part of India. The dominant geographical features of North India are the Indus-Gangetic Plain and the Himalayas, which demarcate the region from the Tibetan Plateau and Central Asia.
  The term North India has varying definitions—the Ministry of Home Affairs in its Northern Zonal Council Administrative division included the states of Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Punjab and Rajasthan and Union Territories of Delhi, Chandigarh. while the Ministry of Culture in its North Culture Zone includes the state of Uttarakhand but excludes Delhi whereas the Geological Survey of India includes Uttar Pradesh and Delhi but excludes Rajasthan and Chandigarh. Other states sometimes included are Bihar, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal.
  North India has been the historical centre of the Mughal, Delhi Sultanate and British Indian Empire.
context_section_description: North India lies mainly in the north temperate zone of the Earth. Though cool or cold winters, hot summers and moderate monsoons are the general pattern. North India is one of the most climatically diverse regions on Earth. During summer, the temperature often rises above 35 °C across much of the Indo-Gangetic plain, reaching as high as 50 °C in the Thar desert, Rajasthan and up to 49 in Delhi. During winter, the lowest temperature on the plains dips to below 5 °C, and below the freezing point in some states. Heavy to moderate snowfall occurs in Himachal Pradesh, J&K and Uttarakhand. Much of North India is notorious for heavy fog during winters.
  Extreme temperatures among inhabited regions have ranged from −45 °C (−49 °F) in Dras, Jammu and Kashmir to 50.6 °C (123 °F) in Alwar, Rajasthan. Dras is claimed to be the second-coldest inhabited place on the planet (after Siberia), with a recorded low of -60 °C.
caption: India's Köppen climate classification map[26] is based on native vegetation, temperature, precipitation and their seasonality.(Major categories)   (Am) Tropical monsoon   (Aw) Tropical savanna, wet & dry   (BWh) Hot desert   (BWk) Cold desert   (BSh) Hot semi arid   (Cwa) Subtropical humid summer, dry winter   (Cwb) Subtropical highland, dry wint
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