page_title: Thane
section_title: Climate
hierarchical_section_title: Thane / Geography / Climate
caption_attribution_description: Thana district Places of Interest 1896 map
context_page_description: Thane, the official name until 1996 is a metropolitan city in Maharashtra, India. The ancient name of Thane was Shree-Sthanak. It is situated in the north-eastern portion of the Salsette Island. Thane city is entirely within Thane taluka, one of the seven talukas of Thane district; also, it is the headquarters of the namesake district. With a population of 1,841,488 distributed over a land area of about 147 square kilometres, Thane city is the 15th most populated city in India with a population of 1,890,000 according to the 2011 census.
  Located on the north-western side of the state of Maharashtra, the city is an immediate neighbour of Mumbai city and a part of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region.
context_section_description: Thane has a tropical monsoon climate that borders on a tropical wet and dry climate. The overall climate is equable with high rainfall days and very few days of extreme temperatures.
  In Thane, temperature varies from 22 °C to 36 °C. Winter temperatures can fall to 12 °C at night while summer temperatures can rise to over 40 °C at noon. The lowest daytime temperatures are witnessed during the peak of the summer monsoon in July and August when temperatures can drop to about 25 °C. Out of total rainfall, 80% rainfall is experienced during June to October. Average annual rainfall is 2000–2500 mm and humidity is 61–86%, making it a humid-perhumid zone.
caption: Thane district: Places of Interest (1896 map)
exif: {"Image Copyright": "Public Domain, from the British Library's collections, 2013"}