The rainfall of the District is registered at each of the tahsil headquarters and a station is also established on the Ambajheri reservoir. The average fall for the 40 years ending 1906-07 at each rain-gauge station was Nagpur 45 inches, Umrer 46 inches, Ramtek 48 inches and katol 39 inches. The main average for the District during the same period was 45 inches. Though the rainfall in the Katol tahsil is on the average the lightest it is also the most regular and so far as past experience goes this area is the most secure. Katol is the best wooded and hilliest of the four tahsils if the northern forest tract of Ramtek, where the rainfall is the heaviest, be excluded. The rainfall is lightest in the west of the District (the cotton juar country) and heaviest in the east (the wheat and rice tract as the Wainganga is approached. The highest District average was 64 inches in 1887-88, and the lightest 16 inches in 1899-00. The highest rainfall recorded at one station was 8 inches at Ramtek in 1890-91 and the lowest 8 inches in at Umrer in 1868-69. The highest and lowest figures at Nagpur are 76 inches in 1883-84 and 14 inches in 1899-00 respectively. During the forty years ending 1906-07 the rainfall of the District exceeded 50 inches in twelve years and was less than 40 inches in nine years. At Nagpur it was above 50 inches in 18 years and below 40 inches in 13 years. The following figures show the distribution of rain at Nagpur to the nearest half inch; June 9 inches, July inches, August  10 inches, September 8 & half inches, October 2 inches. The average for November is 60cents, for the three months of the cold weather one inch and 11 cent, and during the three months of the hot weather one inch and 20 cents.