Manipur Weather, AQI and Fuel Prices

Why Check Manipur Weather & Data?

Manipur is a small northeastern state of roughly 28.56 lakh people at the 2011 Census, projected to reach close to 32.89 lakh by mid-2025 under the Registrar General's own technical-group estimate, and it is built around a striking valley-hills divide: the Imphal Valley covers just 2,166 square kilometres, only 9.7 percent of the state's land, yet held 56 percent of Manipur's population, 15.9 lakh people, at the last census, spread across Imphal East, Imphal West, Bishnupur and Thoubal districts. The remaining roughly 90 percent of the state's territory is hill terrain, districts including Churachandpur, Kangpokpi, Senapati, Ukhrul, Tamenglong, Noney, Pherzawl and Kamjong, carrying far fewer people across a much larger, harder-to-reach area. Manipur's GSDP reached an estimated ₹49,937 crore in 2024-25, up 9.6 percent over the year before, with services now contributing 71.03 percent of gross state value added against just 18.55 percent from agriculture, even though farming and horticulture still define daily life outside Imphal: the state produced 813.23 thousand tonnes of horticulture crops across 81.11 thousand hectares in 2024-25 alone. Handloom is Manipur's largest cottage industry and the state ranks among India's top five by number of looms, with roughly 2.5 lakh weavers, overwhelmingly women, producing Phanek, Innaphi and Rani textiles across Imphal, Thoubal, Bishnupur and Senapati as of October 2025. This page's live weather, AQI and fuel numbers matter differently depending on who's reading: a paddy farmer in the Imphal Valley watching the Imphal river's level before transplanting, a handloom weaver in Thoubal timing dyeing and outdoor drying around the day's rain forecast, a traveller checking road and security advisories before a hill-district trip, a Churachandpur or Kangpokpi resident weighing a landslide warning against the only road home.

Tupul's Landslide, Imphal's Floods, 2023's Long Disruption: Manipur's Real Risks

Manipur's hill terrain and its 2023 ethnic conflict have produced very different but equally disruptive risks. Monsoon flooding and landslides recur nearly every year: a landslide at the Tupul railway construction site in Noney district on June 30, 2022 killed 61 people, 29 of them Territorial Army personnel guarding the site, after days of heavy rain destabilised a hill slope already cut for railway work; the 2024 monsoon then breached the Imphal river's western embankment, affecting roughly 200,000 people and damaging more than 24,000 houses across 348 villages and urban localities; and in June 2025, rain from a depression over northern Bangladesh flooded Senapati district and triggered landslides in Ukhrul, Pherzawl, Noney and Tamenglong, affecting at least 19,811 people. Separately, and far more disruptive in practical terms, ethnic violence between the Meitei community of the Imphal Valley and the Kuki-Zo community of the surrounding hills broke out on May 3, 2023 and remains unresolved as of mid-2026 reporting. A near-total internet shutdown that began May 3, 2023 ran, with only brief interruptions, until full restoration on December 3, 2023, roughly seven months, the longest such shutdown in Northeast India's history, cutting off banking, e-commerce, remote work and much routine emergency communication across the state for that entire stretch. Government figures put the conflict's direct death toll at 217 as of 2026 reporting and 258 as of a November 2024 count, figures this page treats as dated snapshots rather than a final tally given the conflict's continuation; a separate RTI disclosure found 731 further deaths among displaced people in relief camps since 2023, a broader measure covering camp-related hardship and illness rather than direct violence. Displacement peaked near 60,000 people in 2023-24; 2026 government data still counted 58,821 people displaced, while independent reporting put the number still living in camps closer to 43,000, figures this page has not been able to reconcile. The unrest also cut Manipur's tourist arrivals from around 160,000 in the year to March 2023 to just 19,908 between April and November 2023, and cost Imphal Valley farmers an estimated ₹211 crore to ₹266 crore in lost paddy-season income across separate farmer-body surveys of the same five-month period.

How to Use Manipur's Data for Daily Decisions

A paddy farmer in the Imphal Valley's Bishnupur, Imphal East or Imphal West districts should track the Imphal and Iril rivers' levels through the June-September season rather than rainfall totals alone, since the 2024 flood came from an embankment breach rather than simply heavy local rain. A traveller planning a trip to or through Manipur should check both the day's road-security advisory and local curfew status before departure, particularly for hill routes through Kangpokpi, Churachandpur or the Imphal-Kangpokpi corridor, since access has changed with little notice at multiple points since May 2023. A resident of Noney, Ukhrul, Tamenglong or another hill district should treat a landslide or heavy-rain warning as a signal to avoid slope-adjacent travel immediately, not only during the exact hours of a downpour, given that both the 2022 Tupul disaster and the June 2025 slides followed days, not hours, of saturating rain. A handloom weaver in Thoubal, Bishnupur or Imphal should plan dyeing and outdoor drying of Phanek and Innaphi cloth around the short dry windows the forecast shows during the monsoon months, since these textiles are hand-finished outdoors and a sudden downpour can ruin a half-dried piece. Anyone checking the AQI or fuel price pages here should also treat supply disruption as a real possibility during any period of renewed unrest, since fuel and essential-goods convoys into the valley have been delayed or rerouted at various points since 2023.

Manipur's Seasonal Calendar

The southwest monsoon typically reaches Manipur in the first week of June and holds through September, with the IMD grouping Manipur alongside Nagaland, Mizoram and Tripura for a normal withdrawal date around October 15, among the last parts of India the monsoon leaves each year. Paddy transplanting across the Imphal Valley runs through June and July behind the confirmed monsoon onset, with harvest concentrated in October and November, timing that places Manipur's biggest agricultural window right alongside its biggest tourism event: the Sangai Festival, held every November 21-30 across 14 venues including Moirang and Imphal, named for the state's rare brow-antlered Sangai deer and run by the state tourism department since 2010 to showcase Manipuri art, cuisine and craft. Winter, December through February, is Manipur's driest and most stable stretch, and the season most suited to hill-district travel, though anyone planning a Sangai Festival trip in late November should still confirm the monsoon has fully withdrawn from that year's specific route, since actual withdrawal dates vary from the mid-October normal.

Manipur vs Nearby States: Weather & Data Comparison

Assam's and Nagaland's figures are reused from this site's own already-published pages for internal consistency; Mizoram's and Manipur's figures are freshly sourced. Treat this as a broad reference, not a single-source dataset.