India / West Bengal
Digha Beach
Digha Beach is a 3.4 km-long sandy beach facing south-south-east, 1.6 km south-west of Digha (West Bengal, India). The sea averages 29.9 °C in June, its warmest month, and 22.6 °C in January; it stays at 21 °C or above all year.
Average sea surface temperature by month. Current month outlined.
Month by month
October at Digha Beach
Beach-day index 8.2/10 · India median 7.8
| Measure | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sea °C | 22.6 °C | 23.9 °C | 26.8 °C | 28.5 °C | 29.5 °C | 29.9 °C | 29.4 °C | 29.2 °C | 29.6 °C | 29.4 °C | 27.0 °C | 24.2 °C |
| High °C | 25° | 29° | 33° | 35° | 34° | 32° | 31° | 30° | 30° | 30° | 28° | 25° |
| Low °C | 13° | 17° | 22° | 26° | 27° | 28° | 27° | 27° | 26° | 24° | 19° | 14° |
| Rain mm | 14 | 22 | 32 | 55 | 147 | 248 | 364 | 340 | 286 | 168 | 31 | 9 |
| Cloud % | 32 | 29 | 37 | 45 | 57 | 79 | 85 | 83 | 73 | 49 | 34 | 34 |
| Wind m/s | 3.0 | 2.9 | 3.5 | 5.0 | 4.9 | 5.2 | 5.3 | 4.5 | 3.7 | 2.8 | 2.7 | 3.0 |
| Daylight h | 11.0 | 11.4 | 12.0 | 12.6 | 13.2 | 13.4 | 13.3 | 12.9 | 12.3 | 11.7 | 11.1 | 10.8 |
| Record high/low | 30°/7° | 36°/10° | 40°/15° | 42°/21° | 44°/25° | 40°/25° | 34°/26° | 33°/25° | 33°/24° | 33°/16° | 31°/12° | 29°/8° |
| Beach index | 9.3 | 9.5 | 8.4 | 7.2 | 6.8 | 6.7 | 6.9 | 7.1 | 7.3 | 8.2 | 9.4 | 9.4 |
Long-term monthly averages: air from NASA POWER (2001–2020), sea from NOAA OISST (1991–2020); records are the extremes of 2001–2020. How the index works.
When to go
The beach-day index peaks in November–February; February scores 9.5/10 with highs of 29 °C, sea at 23.9 °C and 22 mm of rain.
In February that is 0.4 points above the median of the 107 beaches in India covered by this atlas.
At its warmest the water here is 0.7 °C warmer than the India median for June (29.2 °C).
Across the year the sea averages 27.5 °C, warmer than 85% of the coastal beaches in the atlas.
July is the wettest month (364 mm) and December the driest (9 mm); the yearly total is about 1,720 mm.
Daylight runs from 10.8 hours in December to 13.4 hours in June; in mid-February the sun rises at 06:11 and sets at 17:36 local time.
Orientation, sun and shore
The shore faces south-south-east (165°). Open water fills about 50% of the horizon close by, which makes it an open stretch of shore.
The sun sets over the sea in November–January; in mid-December it goes down at 16:59 local time on a bearing of 245°.
Sunrise is over the sea in September–April.
Straight out to the south-south-east there is open water for more than 2,000 km, so the beach is exposed to long ocean swell.
About 1 km offshore the sea is roughly 3 m deep and 4 m at 3 km, a shallow, gently shelving sea floor. Behind the beach the ground is about 10 m above sea level 500 m inland and 6 m at 1.5 km, a flat coastal plain.
Within 1 km, the land is 49% tree cover, 31% built-up land and 8% bare ground, sand or rock (satellite land-cover map, 2021): a partly built-up setting. Water makes up 53% of that circle.
- Tree 49%
- Built 31%
- Bare 8%
- Grass 7%
- Crop 5%
Land cover: ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m). Orientation from OpenStreetMap land polygons sampled in 36 directions; depths and heights from the GEBCO 2020 grid (about 450 m cells), indicative only.
Rainfall reaches 364 mm in July and stays above 250 mm in July, August and September.
OpenStreetMap shows no lifeguard station within 1 km. Seasonal lifeguard posts are often unmapped, so check on site.
Photos
Facilities within 1 km
- 20Restaurants, cafés & bars
- –Public toilets
- –Showers
- –Car parks
- –Lifeguard stations
- 172Hotels & guesthouses
- 2Cash machines
Food and drink mapped within 1 km: 18 restaurants and 2 cafés. Accommodation: 172 hotels and guesthouses.
Counted within 1 km of the beach (bus stops 1.5 km) from OpenStreetMap features and Overture Maps places, release of 2026-10. Unmapped does not mean absent.
Around the beach
Attractions & museums
- Digha Park attraction 260 m NE
- Digha Science Centre museum 860 m NW
Getting there
| Airport | Code | Distance | Direction |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport Kolkata | CCU | 151 km | north-east |
| Kazi Nazrul Islam Airport Durgapur | RDP | 225 km | north |
| Biju Patnaik International Airport Bhubaneswar | BBI | 232 km | south-west |
Straight-line distances from the beach; road distance is usually 20–40% longer.
Local transport: rail station Digha (960 m).
1 town or village of 1,000+ people lie within 10 km (about 3.7K residents); within 30 km there are 1 (about 3.7K).
Map
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Data on this page
- Air temperature, rain, cloud, wind, humidity: NASA POWER climatology 2001–2020, 0.5° grid.
- Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 monthly normals 1991–2020, nearest ocean cell 12.1 km away.
- Beach outline, surface, rules and public facilities: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), feature w376191689; restaurants, cafés, bars and lodging: Overture Maps places (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).
- Towns and time zone: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Airports: OurAirports (public domain). Sunrise and sunset: NOAA solar equations.
- Photos: Wikimedia Commons, author and licence under each image.
- Orientation: OpenStreetMap land polygons (ODbL). Depth and terrain: GEBCO 2020 grid.
- Settlements: GeoNames places with 1,000+ inhabitants.
- Land cover: ESA WorldCover 2021, 10 m (CC BY 4.0).
- Search popularity: about 110K Google searches a month for the name (KeywordTool, October 2026).
Data compiled 2026-10-13. Something wrong? Report a data error.