Watering gardens in Mumbai

No need today

Rain is due tomorrow, which should cover it.

Updated this morning
Today

Has it rained enough in Mumbai?

Rain soaked in today, and the ground has taken it.

Mumbai has had 205.3mm of rain in the last 30 days. A normal September here brings 312mm, so the ground is roughly where it should be for the time of year.

Rain reaching the roots · 14 days
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Reached the roots Rain that did not one day of 14
Thirty years

Rain in Mumbai through a normal year

Across a normal year Mumbai gets about 1996.5mm of rain, most of it in July (682.5mm) and least in April (0.4mm).

A normal September in Mumbai has rain on 28 days. Only 23 of them bring enough to reach a root.

That makes Mumbai the wettest place this site covers in India in September — 312mm against Jaipur's 70.2mm at the other end.

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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.