Today
Has it rained enough in Pune?
Rain soaked in today, and the ground has taken it.
Pune has had 86.7mm of rain in the last 30 days. A normal September here brings 192.7mm, so that is about 45% of what the ground usually gets — and the driest September in 30 years was 57mm.
Rain reaching the roots · 14 days
15 SeptToday
Reached the roots
Rain that did not
3 days of 14
Thirty years
Rain in Pune through a normal year
Across a normal year Pune gets about 1118.1mm of rain, most of it in July (318.2mm) and least in January (1.7mm).
A normal September in Pune has rain on 27 days. Only 19 of them bring enough to reach a root.
That makes Pune one of the wetter places this site covers in India in September — 3rd 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 basketsWorst hit, and first to suffer. Very little soil, fully exposed, and nothing to fall back on — in this weather they can empty in a day.
- Salad and leafy vegShallow-rooted and quick to bolt once they run dry. First priority of anything in the ground.
- Beds and bordersA long soak that reaches the roots is worth more than a daily sprinkle, which only wets the surface and is gone by lunchtime.
- Established shrubs and treesFine as they are. They draw from far deeper than a dry spell reaches.