Kanpur
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About
Kanpur, originally named Kanhapur and formerly anglicized as Cawnpore, is the largest city of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Founded by Rajput ruler Hindu Singh Chandel, Kanpur became one of the most important commercial and military stations of British Raj.
Wikipedia →Summary excerpted from the Wikipedia article Kanpur, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text may be clipped or paraphrased to fit this page.
The next week in Kanpur
7-day forecast from Open-Meteo. UV badges flag days when sun protection matters (3 and above is moderate; 8 and above is risk territory for unprotected fair skin within 30 minutes).
Today
Partly cloudy
41° / 28°
UV Very high
Sun
Clear
42° / 29°
UV Very high
Mon
Clear
43° / 30°
UV Very high
Tue
Clear
43° / 31°
UV Very high
Wed
Clear
43° / 30°
UV Very high
Thu
Clear
43° / 31°
UV High
Fri
In May 16
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Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
48° / 21°
Typical high / low
1 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
13.4h
05:21 – 18:47local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near Kanpur
2 commercial airports within 100 km. Closest is Kanpur Airport (KNU) at 11 km.
Getting around Kanpur
Public-transit operators within 8 km of the city center. Click through to each operator’s site for routes, fares, and tickets.
Local transit operators
Operators and modes aggregated by TransitLand from individual transit-agency GTFS feeds. Route classifications (subway / tram / rail / bus / etc) come from each feed’s GTFS route_type codes.
Sister cities
Sources
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- Wikipedia →
Summary, canonical article, and some image fallbacks.
- Wikidata →
Population, area, image, coordinates, and linked identifiers where available.
- NASA POWER →
Monthly temperature and rainfall climatology.
- Open-Meteo historical weather →
1991-2020 temperature and precipitation cross-check for compact climate fields.
- Open-Elevation →
Coordinate-based elevation backfill.
- tz database →
Coordinate-based IANA timezone lookup.
- Site credits →
Global source notes, map tiles, flags, licenses, and attribution policy.