Tripura Weather, AQI and Fuel Prices

Why Check Tripura Weather & Data?

Tripura is India's third-smallest state by area, home to an estimated 42.32 lakh people as of 2025 (36.74 lakh at the 2011 Census), yet it carries a distinctive economic and geographic profile unlike any other state in the northeast. Its GSDP reached an estimated ₹89,682 crore in 2024-25, up 12.9 percent in nominal terms, and per capita income has climbed to ₹1.93 lakh, from ₹1.54 lakh just two years earlier. Two industries carry outsized weight given the state's small size: natural rubber, where Tripura is India's second-largest producer after Kerala, growing rubber across 97,171.93 hectares and harvesting 1,02,989 tonnes worth roughly ₹1,620 crore a year according to the state's own Industrial Development Corporation, concentrated in West and South Tripura's plantations; and natural gas, where state-run ONGC operates 95 gas-producing wells feeding Tripura's own gas-based power plants, currently producing 3.5 MMSCMD with a target of 4 MMSCMD as the state prepares to join the national Indradhanush Gas Grid by September 2026. Geography compounds both industries' exposure: Bangladesh wraps around Tripura's north, south and west, an 856-kilometre international border that makes up 84 percent of the state's total boundary, leaving Assam and Mizoram as its only two domestic land borders, both reached through the state's narrower northeastern and eastern edges. This page's live weather, AQI and fuel numbers matter differently depending on who's reading them: an Agartala resident checking whether monsoon flooding will reach their neighbourhood again, a rubber-tapping worker in a South Tripura plantation deciding whether rain will halt the day's latex collection, a paddy farmer in the Gumti valley near Amarpur watching the river gauge before transplanting season.

August 2024's Deluge, the Gumti's Cross-Border Waters: Tripura's Defining Risk

Tripura's worst disaster in decades struck between August 19 and 27, 2024, when days of extreme rainfall, Bagafa in South Tripura recorded 49 centimetres in 24 hours, sent the Gumti and other rivers over their banks across every district in the state. The death toll settled at 31 to 32 depending on the source, with one official breakdown attributing 19 deaths to landslides, 12 to drowning and one to a collapsed house, and the floods displaced an estimated 1.49 lakh people from roughly 38,000 families into 821 relief camps, destroyed or severely damaged 3,243 houses and partially damaged 17,046 more, triggered landslips at more than 2,000 locations, and submerged an estimated 1.25 lakh hectares of standing crops. Chief Minister Manik Saha put the state's total loss at roughly ₹15,000 crore, a figure officials said could still rise once a final assessment was complete; state and national media described it variously as Tripura's worst flood since 1956 or since 1983, an inconsistency that has never been resolved in public reporting. The disaster also spilled into a diplomatic dispute: as the same rain pushed the Gumti past its banks in downstream Bangladesh, some Bangladeshi commentators blamed India's release of water from the Dumbur dam, more than 120 kilometres upstream of the border; India's Ministry of External Affairs denied the dam played a role, attributing the flooding on both sides of the border to intense rainfall across the shared Gumti catchment instead, leaving cross-border river management between the two countries an unresolved and recurring flashpoint.

How to Use Tripura's Data for Daily Decisions

An Agartala resident during the June-September monsoon should treat a heavy-rainfall alert as more than routine, flooding in low-lying colonies is now a near-annual event, and the August 2024 disaster showed how quickly a multi-day rain spell can escalate into a citywide emergency. A rubber-plantation worker in West or South Tripura needs the daily and hourly rain forecast for a different reason entirely: latex tapping happens in the early morning and stops the moment rain threatens to wash out the cup collection, so a wet forecast is effectively a lost half-day of wages during the tapping season. A paddy farmer in the Gumti valley around Amarpur or Udaipur should watch both the rainfall forecast and river-level bulletins together, since the kharif transplanting season in June and July falls directly inside the state's flood-risk window, the same weeks the 2024 disaster struck. Anyone near an ONGC gas field in Rokhia, Baramura or Konaban should treat a landslide or heavy-rain advisory seriously too, since access roads to well sites in Tripura's low hill ranges can wash out the same way they did in the 2024 event.

Tripura's Seasonal Calendar

The southwest monsoon typically reaches Tripura by early June and holds through September, with the heaviest and most dangerous rain spells, including the catastrophic one in 2024, tending to cluster in August. Rubber tapping runs through the dry months from roughly November to April and slows sharply once the monsoon sets in, since rain-soaked bark and diluted latex cut both yield and worker income during the wettest weeks. The agricultural calendar follows the same rhythm: kharif paddy is transplanted in June and July, squarely inside the flood-risk window, and harvested from November into December once the rivers have receded. Garia Puja, Tripura's tribal agricultural new year, falls on the first day of Boishakh in mid-April, well ahead of the monsoon, while Kharchi Puja, dedicated to ritually purifying the earth, is held every July at Agartala's Chaturdasha Devata Temple right as the rains are intensifying. Durga Puja in September or October, the state's largest festival by attendance, usually falls after the worst of the flood season has passed, though anyone travelling for it in a wet year should still confirm road conditions in the low-lying districts first.

Tripura vs Assam & Mizoram: Weather & Data Comparison

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