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3 min readPuneMay 13, 2026 02:24 PM IST
The India Meteorological Department’s (IMD) weather station at Shivajinagar in Pune recorded on Wednesday the fourth-highest temperature for May since records started being maintained in 1969.
Shivajinagar, which hosts the city’s main observatory, recorded a minimum temperature of 27.4 degrees Celsius in the morning, which is 5.1 degrees above normal.
The minimum temperature here has increased by 5.7 degrees Celsius in just three days, since 21.7 degrees Celsius was recorded on May 10.
The last time Shivajinagar woke up feeling so warm in May was in 2024, when the morning temperature was 27.3 degrees Celsius. Last year, the warmest May morning was much cooler at 25.3 degrees Celsius.
If it is any comfort, Shivajinagar’s record for the highest minimum temperature for May was 29.4 degrees Celsius on May 12, 1979. A day earlier that year, the minimum temperature was 28.2 degrees Celsius, the second-highest on record. It was decades later that the morning warmth in Shivajinagar would touch a new high, 28 degrees Celsius, on May 19, 2010.
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Though Shivajinagar represents the official weather data of Pune, other parts of the city record different temperatures. Lohegaon has seen particularly hot mornings and days. On Wednesday, the minimum temperature here reached 29.2 degrees Celsius, which is a worrying 6.9 degrees Celsius above normal and far higher than the previous morning’s 27 degrees Celsius, which was already 4.7 degrees above normal.
Other parts of Pune also remained unbearably hot. Hadapsar, Magarpatta, and Koregaon Park started the day as the warmest parts of the city, when the mercury soared to 28.8 degrees Celsius. Wadgaonsheri reached 28 degrees Celsius, marginally above the previous day’s minimum temperature, and Chinchwad recorded 27.1 degrees Celsius, which was higher than Tuesday’s morning temperature of 26.9 degrees Celsius.
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There was little respite even in the leafy neighbourhoods of the National Defence Academy and Pashan on Wednesday, as the morning temperature hit around 26.4 degrees Celsius, 4.6 degrees Celsius, and 2.2 degrees Celsius higher than the day before’s readings. It was similar at Lavale, which reported 24.1 degrees Celsius on Wednesday, up from 23.7 degrees Celsius on Tuesday.
The IMD has said that central Maharashtra and Marathwada will experience a heatwave and warm night phenomenon until Thursday.
A warm night is a term used to depict a condition in which the maximum temperature over a place is above 40 degrees Celsius and the minimum temperature is 4.5 -6.4 degrees Celsius above normal.
According to the IMD, Pune’s minimum temperature will be between 21 degrees Celsius and 27 degrees Celsius in the next few days.
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