Archive · 15 Sep 2026
Mumbai Surpasses Annual Monsoon Rainfall Quota as Showers Return
Mumbai has received a lot of rain this monsoon season.
The city’s Santacruz weather station measured 2,442.6 millimeters of rain from June to September 15.
Its usual total for the full monsoon season is 2,389 millimeters.
This means Santacruz has received about 2 percent more rain than average.
Mumbai normally gets its yearly rainfall during the monsoon months.
Those months are June, July, August, and September.
The nearby Colaba station usually records less rain, with an average of 2,103 millimeters.
The monsoon season was still continuing when the average was passed.
Mumbai’s Santacruz suburbs recorded 2,442.6 mm of rain from June through Tuesday morning, September 15.
The rainfall total is 2 percent above Santacruz’s seasonal monsoon average of 2,389 mm.
Mumbai’s monsoon rainfall quota is typically recorded between June and September.
The India Meteorological Department’s Colaba station has an average seasonal rainfall of 2,103 mm.
The monsoon season had not yet concluded when Santacruz exceeded its average.
- Who
- Mumbai, the India Meteorological Department, and its Santacruz and Colaba weather stations.
- What
- Mumbai’s Santacruz station surpassed its average seasonal monsoon rainfall total by 2 percent.
- When
- From the start of the southwest monsoon in June through Tuesday morning, September 15; the year is not specified.
- Where
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, including the Santacruz and Colaba observatories.
- Why
- Mumbai receives its annual rainfall quota during the June-to-September monsoon season.
- Santacruz rainfall
- 2,442.6 mm recorded from June through Tuesday morning, September 15.
- Santacruz seasonal average
- 2,389 mm during the June-to-September monsoon period.
- Rainfall surplus
- 2 percent above Santacruz’s seasonal average.
- Colaba seasonal average
- 2,103 mm according to IMD climatological records.
- Rainfall period
- The southwest monsoon began in June and the season had not yet concluded.
- Measuring agency
- India Meteorological Department.