Location Bandel is located at and it has an elevation of 16 meter. The main river that flows by Bandel is
Hooghly. The town is in
Gangetic Plain. near Bandel
Climate Like the rest of the
Ganges Delta of
West Bengal, the climate is tropical wet-and-dry in nature. A prolonged hot and humid weather is the main characteristic of the climate of
Bandel. The monsoon stays from early June to mid-September. Winter persists for almost three months, from mid-November to mid-February. The weather remains dry during the winter and humid during summer. During the recent years, Bandel has been experiencing extremely high temperature with the maximum of
41°C occurring in the month of May. The lowest temperature observed in 2024 is
16°C in January. The summer season is usually observed first in April, but the high temperatures have once again, taken over. In 2025, temperature rise was observed as early as the beginning of February. Winter started in 2024 from the end of November. Low temperatures of winter are now no longer so high. In 2017, the lowest temperature of January was
13°C, and over the next 4 years it has dropped to about
8.4°C, a drop of
4.6°. And as for summer, the maximum temperatures have risen quite a bit. June is regarded as the hottest month of the year in Hooghly District with the temperature rising from
35°C in 2017 to
37.1°C in 2021, a rise of
2.1° followed by May. Rainfall and precipitation is quite diverse in Bandel and also Hooghly District. In 2025, it rained in both January and February. This is quite rare considering rainy season usually starts in May, which is also regarded as the hottest season of the year. One day, presumably
February 20 is the day of the highest rainfall in Bandel of February in 2025 . On this day, the sky became very dark accompanied by thunderstorm, strong winds and eventually, rainfall. So much water had collected in the low-lying areas that it reached up to waist-level and it was technically impossible for two wheelers to pass through it. The rain continued for
8-12 hours and almost every ground was under water. All the places where rainwater had collected was left with water for about a day before it eventually drained. The rainfall on this day is approximately . Which is classified as '
Very Heavy Rain' according to the
National Centre for Hydrology and Meteorology. The month of the highest rainfall is
July, with more than
300 mm per year followed by
August with more than
180 mm. The others with more than
80 mm are
May, June, September and October. ==Economy==