Today
Has it rained enough in Kolkata?
Rain soaked properly in 3 days ago, and the ground is still holding some of it.
Kolkata has had 371.1mm of rain in the last 30 days. A normal September here brings 272.1mm, so the ground is roughly where it should be for the time of year.
Rain reaching the roots · 14 days
16 SeptToday
Reached the roots
Rain that did not
3 days of 14
Thirty years
Rain in Kolkata through a normal year
Across a normal year Kolkata gets about 1654.8mm of rain, most of it in July (349.8mm) and least in January (14.3mm).
A normal September in Kolkata has rain on 28 days. Only 24 of them bring enough to reach a root.
That makes Kolkata one of the wetter places this site covers in India in September — 2nd of 8, against Mumbai at the wet end (312mm) and Jaipur at the dry end (70.2mm).
JanFMAMJJulASOND
Average rainfall by month, 1995–2024
What it means
What that means for what you grow
- Pots and hanging basketsWorth checking by hand even so — a pot in the sun can dry out in a wet week, because there is so little soil to hold anything.
- Beds and bordersNothing needed. Watering soil that is already wet does more harm than good.
- New plantingsAnything planted within the last month is the exception; its roots have not spread far enough to find water on their own.