The southwest monsoon reached Delhi on June 29, 2025, a day earlier than the usual onset date of June 30, covering the entire city and the National Capital Region (NCR), according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD). This marks one of the earliest arrivals since 2013, bringing relief from heatwaves with light to moderate rainfall and thunderstorms expected through July 10.
“The Southwest Monsoon has further advanced into remaining parts of Rajasthan, West Uttar Pradesh and Haryana and the entire Delhi today, the 29th June 2025. Thus, it covered the entire country on 29th June, 2025, against the normal date of 08th July (nine days before the normal date),” the IMD said in a statement on Sunday.
This year’s June 29 convergence marks the earliest complete national coverage since 2020, with the monsoon typically taking a median of four days to cover the entire country after reaching Delhi during the 2001-2025 period.
On Sunday, June 29, 2025, rainfall across Delhi varied widely, with Safdarjung, the city’s primary weather station, recording 5.1 mm of rain between 8:30 AM and 5:30 PM. Palam saw the highest at 13.6 mm, followed by Ayanagar (9.9 mm), Rajghat (8.3 mm), Lodhi Road (5.3 mm), Pusa (1 mm), and Najafgarh (2 mm).
An IMD official confirmed the monsoon’s onset met criteria for the Haryana-Chandigarh-Delhi subdivision. “Widespread light rain covered Chandigarh, western Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, and Haryana, accompanied by easterly winds,” the official stated.
Believe it or not: The longest monsoon journey from Kerala to Delhi occurred in 2002, taking 51 days from May 29 to July 19. This year’s arrival in Delhi came two days after the normal date of June 27 and represents the 11th earliest arrival in the capital since 2001, when IMD onset records for Delhi began.
The IMD has issued a yellow alert for Delhi on Monday, forecasting light to moderate showers, with light rain likely to continue from July 1 through July 5. Heavy to very heavy rainfall is forecast across many parts of northwest, central, eastern, and northeastern India over the next seven days, with isolated extremely heavy spells expected over Jharkhand and Odisha on June 30.
