Average Rainfall for India in August

The tables below give monthly averages for rainfall during August at cities in India. Each place has a total for how many days of wet weather it usually gets this month and for the normal amount of precipitation.

The calculation of days only includes the days when precipitation totalled at least one millimetre (0.04 inches).

The month's total rainfall is an historical average of weather data collected during 1961 to 1990.

You can jump to a separate table for each section of the country: Northern India, Eastern India, Southern India and Western India.

Northern India

Average monthly precipitation in August
Days Place State Inches mm
14 Agra Uttar Pradesh 8.9 227
13 Allahabad Uttar Pradesh 10.5 266
9 Amritsar Punjab 7.4 187
20 Bhopal Madhya Pradesh 14.4 366
13 Chandigarh Chandigarh 11.1 283
24 Dehradun Uttarakhand 28.5 723
18 Indore Madhya Pradesh 14.2 360
16 Lucknow Uttar Pradesh 10.5 266
10 Ludhiana Punjab 7.4 189
19 Mukteswar Uttarakhand 11.1 281
12 New Delhi Delhi 9.3 235
18 Patna Bihar 10.8 273
22 Shimla Himachal Pradesh 15.2 386
7 Srinagar Jammu and Kashmir 3.0 76
17 Varanasi Uttar Pradesh 10.5 268

Eastern India

August averages for total rainfall
Days Place State Inches mm
23 Agartala Tripura 11.6 294
19 Balasore Orissa (Odisha) 12.5 318
19 Bhuba­neshwar Orissa (Odisha) 15.3 389
26 Cherrapunji Meghalaya 69.3 1760
19 Dibrugarh Assam 16.9 429
16 Gopalpur West Bengal 7.8 198
15 Guwahati Assam 8.9 227
23 Kohima Nagaland 14.3 364
20 Kolkata (Calcutta) West Bengal 13.7 349
20 Raipur Chhattisgarh 14.4 365
21 Ranchi Jharkhand 12.8 324
24 Shillong Meghalaya 12.5 317

Southern India

Average amount of rain in August
Days Place State Inches mm
13 Bangalore Karnataka 4.7 119
11 Chennai Tamil Nadu 5.4 138
6 Coimbatore Tamil Nadu 1.1 28
14 Hyderabad Telangana 6.4 163
7 Madurai Tamil Nadu 3.4 87
16 Minicoy Lakshadweep 9.5 241
14 Mysore Karnataka 3.1 78
1 Pamban Island Tamil Nadu  0.4 9
23 Port Blair Andaman & Nicobar 16.7 425
9 Puducherry Pondicherry 4.7 118
13 Thiruvanan­thapuram Kerala 6.0 152
12 Vijayawada Andhra Pradesh 5.8 146
12 Vishak­hapatnam Andhra Pradesh 6.7 169

Western India

Precipitation totals for August
Days Place State Inches mm
15 Ahmedabad Gujarat 11.3 288
15 Aurangabad Maharashtra 6.2 158
15 Jaipur Rajasthan 8.0 203
15 Kota Rajasthan 9.6 243
25 Mumbai Maharashtra 19.2 487
17 Nagpur Maharashtra 11.5 291
21 Nasik Maharashtra 5.2 132
27 Panaji Goa 24.5 622
16 Pune Maharashtra 5.1 129
14 Rajkot Gujarat 7.0 177
18 Surat Gujarat 9.5 241
17 Vadodara Gujarat 10.5 268
References

India Meteorological Department and World Meteorological Organization. World Weather Information Service.

World Data Center for Meteorology. Climate of the World.

India Precipitation
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