Mumbai has three seasons. April to June is summer when the temperatures are hot. The monsoon season lasts from June to October when it rains and rains. In the winter - November to March - it is cooler and drier. But the climate in Mumbai is very different from mountains of the North-East of India where we visited in Spring 2002. Click on the thermometer to get a graph of the average monthly temperatures for Mumbai and a city in North East India called Shillong.

	Mumbai gets more rain during the monsoon season than a lot of India because it lies on the coast. Click on the raindrop to see a table of the average rainfall for Mumbai. Can you work out from the figures when the monsoon season begins and ends? Boys in rainstorm © Zed Nelson/Panos Pictures For a story about the monsoon in Mumbai, go to www.pitara.com/magazine/features/65.htm. Imagine you live and work in Mumbai on the morning the monsoon rains arrive. What would it be like if you were: a businessperson going to work by motorcycle, a dustman, shopping in the market, a night worker living on the ground floor??