Nagpur district: rain, soils and orange orchards.

Facts, with their sources

Each fact names the public document it comes from and the year of its data. Where two official sources disagree, both are shown.

• Normal rainfall is 1139.4 mm a year, and it rains from June to September. The western parts get 800 to 900 mm; other parts get 1000 to 1200 mm.Source: Central Ground Water Board, Aquifer Maps and Ground Water Management Plan, Nagpur District · Date: March 2021 (rainfall 1998 to 2019)
• Soils are medium to deep clayey black cotton soils, with loamy alluvial soils and shallow red soils in places.Source: Central Ground Water Board, Ground Water Information, Nagpur District · Date: 2013
• Oilseeds covered 202,096 hectares and cotton 142,789 hectares in 2016-17.Source: Central Ground Water Board, Nagpur District aquifer report · Date: 2021 (crop year 2016-17)
• Nagpur mandarin covered 25,330 hectares in 2008-09. A 2025 study gives 21,973.6 hectares in 2021-22, citing Indiastat.Source: ICAR-CRIDA, Agriculture Contingency Plan for Nagpur District; Plant Archives 25 (Suppl. 1) · Date: 2008-09 and 2021-22
• Orange cultivation is widespread in Katol, Narkhed and Kalmeshwar talukas.Source: The Hitavada (newspaper), Mandarin Orange to be focus area for Nagpur under ODOFP · Date: 2 March 2021

Rain in Nagpur in an average year

Nagpur gets about 1214 mm of rain in an average year, 1069 mm of it from June to September.

For comparison, the official normal in the Central Ground Water Board's report is 1139.4 mm a year. Source: Central Ground Water Board, Aquifer Maps and Ground Water Management Plan, Nagpur District · 2021

Source: CHIRPS v2.0 rainfall (Climate Hazards Center, UC Santa Barbara; Funk et al. 2015), averaged over the area by VarshaKrishi. It is a satellite-and-rain-gauge estimate, so it differs from official normals, which use other years and stations.