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High Rainfall days in India’s districts in July 2025

An analysis of the daily district wise rainfall data from India Meteorological Department (IMD) for July 2025 shows that there were 718 (down from 914 in July 2024, 855 in July 2023, 809 in July 2022 and almost same as 717 in July 2021) instances when district rainfall of a day was above 50 mm. Such high rainfall instances included 635 (down from 730 in July 2024, 660 in July 2023, 663 in July 2022, up from 595 in July 2021) instances when rainfall was 50-100 mm, 75 (143 in July 2024, 149 in July 2023, 107 in July 2022, 98 in July 2021) instances when it was 100-150 mm, 7 (27 in July 2024, 34 in July 2023, 28 in July 2022, 17 in July 2021) times when it was 150-200 mm and  just 1 (14 in July 2024, 12 in July 2023, 16 in July 2022 and 7 in July 2021) time when rainfall in July 2025 when rainfall was above 200 mm.

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

In July 2025, India received 294.3 mm (306.6 mm in July 2024[i], 318.4 in July 2023[ii] and 327.7 mm in July 2022[iii]) rainfall, 4.9% above (9.3 % above in July 2024, 13.5% above normal in July 2023 and 16.8% above normal in July 2022) the normal July rainfall of 280.5 mm as per India Meteorological department. So this is the fourth consecutive year when rainfall in July is above normal, the quantum has gone down with each passing year during these last four years.

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