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Pakistan Monsoon 2025 Rainfall Update Pakistan
Meteorological Department-CDPC (21st
August 2025) (Contact: info.cdpc@pmd.gov.pk,
pmdcdpc@yahoo.com) |
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Monsoon progress
Highlights (26th June to 21st August): This year monsoon season set on 26th June 2025
over Pakistan, five days earlier than its normal date (1st July).
However, excessive monsoon rainfall occurred in the last week of June and in
the month of July and a near normal rainfall in August, so far, which leads
to slightly above average rainfall during the period. 26-30 June 2025 During the period an excessive amount of rainfall
occurred as whole in Pakistan i.e. 17.1mm (+219.9%). Most of the excessive
rain areas were Sindh, Punjab, Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as compared
to the regions AJK and Gilgit-Baltistan where the rainfall was below average
during the period. 1-31 July 2025 During the period, the national rainfall was largely
above average with 63.3mm (22.8%) across Pakistan as a whole. The situation
was similar in the regions too, i.e. AJK with 197.7mm (13.7%), Punjab with
163.5mm (+57.3%), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
with 115.2mm (4.5%), Balochistan with 39.3mm (+32.5%), Gilgit-Baltistan with 20.2mm
(52%), all recorded excessively above average rainfall. Whereas the regions
The Sindh with 31.6mm(-47.5%) was the only region to
observe a near average rainfall with negative departure of (-1%). 1-21 August 2025 During the period, the national rainfall was near average
with 42.3mm (-2.3%) across Pakistan as a whole. The diverse situation was
observed in the regions, i.e. Gilgit-Baltistan with 18.3mm(+71.2%) was largely above
average, Balochistan with 25.0mm (+33.3%) was above average, whereas AJK with
110.2 mm (+0.1%), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with 81.7mm
(+5.4%) and Sindh with 43.3 mm (-3.9%) exhibited near average rainfall. The
region Punjab with 50.9mm (-56.9%) was the only region observed
below average rainfall. |
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Note: Calculations are provisional |
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