A field experiment was conducted at College of Horticulture, Sirsi during late kharif 2017 to study the nature and magnitude of genetic diversity of 40 culinary melon genotypes. Based on D2 analysis, the genotypes were grouped into seven different clusters, where the cluster I possessed maximum number (28) of genotypes followed by the cluster II (5), V (3), and rest are solitary. | Assessment of genetic diversity in culinary melon (Cucumis melo var conomon) under rainfed condition