Bengaluru wakes up to chilly Christmas, sees second coldest winter in more than a decade

Bengaluru recorded one of its coldest mornings in over a decade on Christmas Day, as several parts of Karnataka came under the grip of a cold spell.

According to the Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre, parts of Bengaluru Urban recorded a minimum temperature of 11.2°C, while the India Meteorological Department (IMD) reported 13.4°C at Bengaluru airport.

The lowest temperature ever recorded in the city was 8.9°C in 1883. Since 2012, this was the second closest to that record, after Bengaluru registered a low of 12°C in December 2016.

In the state, the northern Bidar district registered a low of 6.5°C during the early hours of Thursday morning. KSNDMC data shows that 27 of the 31 districts registered minimum temperatures below 11°C. Bengaluru Urban and Davanagere (both with a minimum of 11.2°C), Udupi (16.6°C) and Dakshina Kannada (17.4°C) were the only four recording minimum temperatures above 11°C.