Rain and tide

Monsoon Room

The city runs on rain for four months and talks about it for the other eight. Here is the count.

Rain by day Past days Forecast

See the numbers as a table

Arabian Sea

Highest tides this week

Heavy rain is one thing. Heavy rain at high tide is when the water has nowhere to go.

Plan around it

Get off at Mahalaxmi
Haji Ali Dargah
A white mosque and tomb on an islet in the bay, reached by a causeway that goes under at high tide.
Get off at Sewri
Flamingo Point
The jetty past the fort where, from about November to May, flamingos feed on the mudflats at low tide.
Get off at Lower Parel
Worli Sea Face
A long, open promenade facing the Sea Link, wilder than Marine Drive. In the monsoon the waves come over the wall.

The monsoon itself is on the city’s calendar, and today’s tide is on the Board.

The rain figures come from weather models for the centre of the city, not from the rain gauges at Colaba and Santacruz, so they will not match the official totals.
Tide times and heights are modelled too. Heights are measured from mean sea level, so they read lower than the figures in a port tide table.
The monsoon normally reaches Mumbai around 11 June and pulls back in early October.
Lake levels, the number the city watches for its water supply, are not here yet.