Mumbai Monsoon — The City That Celebrates the Rain

The Mumbai monsoon (the Southwest Monsoon arriving in Mumbai typically between June 5-15 and lasting until late September, bringing approximately 2,400 mm of rainfall in approximately 100 days — the defining meteorological and cultural event of the Mumbai year): Mumbai receives more rainfall in a single month (approximately 800mm in July) than London receives in a year (approximately 600mm total), and the city's relationship with the monsoon — simultaneously celebratory, resigned, and occasionally catastrophic — is central to the identity of Mumbaikars; the monsoon transforms the city: the coastline becomes dramatic with crashing waves, the national park turns impossibly green, and the streets turn into rivers.