June 2025: District wise rainfall in India’s SW Monsoon

In the just concluded month June 2025, the first month of India’s South West 2025 monsoon, India received 180 mm rainfall, 8.89% above the normal June rainfall of 165.3 mm as per India Meteorological department. In June 2024 the rainfall was 147.2 mm, 11% below normal, June 2023 rainfall was 148.6 mm (10% below normal), in June 2022 the rainfall was 152.3 mm (8% below normal), in June 2021, the rainfall was 182.9 mm (about 11% above normal) and in June 2020, the rainfall was 196.9 mm (about 18% above normal) and in June 2019 it was 33% below normal. So in last seven years from 2019 to 2025, India had below normal rainfall in 4 years in June, and above normal in three years (2020, 2021, 2025). Nine times since 2008 June rainfall was below normal.

However, the distribution of rainfall has been far from normal in June 2024, both temporally and spatially as we will see below.

State wise Rainfall As we can see from the IMD map above, out of 36 States and Union Territories (UTs), five (Gujarat, Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Ladakh and Diu-Daman-Dadar-Na) had large Excess (Actual rainfall more than 60% above normal), Eight had Excess (Actual rainfall 20-59% above normal), 13 had normal (Actual rainfall 19% below normal to above normal), Ten had deficit (Actual rainfall 20-59% below normal rainfall) and None had Large Deficit (Actual rainfall over 60% below normal) in rainfall in June 2025. Goa again had the highest rainfall of 759.5 mm, Ladakh had the lowest rainfall at 11.4 mm.

Sub Division wise rainfall IMD divides India into 36 meteorological divisions (the logic of many of them is far from clear). As we can see from the map above, seven sub divisions had Large Excess rainfall, eight had excess rainfall, eleven had Normal rainfall, ten had deficit rainfall and none had large deficit. Coastal Karnataka had the highest rainfall at 929.6 mm and Punjab had the lowest at 69.7 mm rainfall in June 2025.

DISTRICT WISE STATE WISE RAINFALL Above we can see the IMD’s all India map with districts rainfall given with usual colour code for rainfall category of Large Excess, Excess, Normal, Deficit and Large Deficit.

NORTH INDIA: Jammu & Kashmir