Akola Bazar has two rivers, intersecting at the northeast corner of the town near Bandar Baba Temple.
The climate of the town is, in general, hot and dry with moderately cold winters.
The cold waves over northern India sometimes affect the place and the minimum temperature may drop to about 5 °C (41 °F).
On Friday, 10 August 2012 during monsoon season, due to heavy rain, rivers overflowed wiping out more than 260 villages in Vidharbha.
Then chief minister of Maharashtra, Prithviraj Chavan, visited Akola Bazar among few other villages on Friday, 11 August 2012.