Varanasi sits directly on the banks of the Ganges in eastern Uttar Pradesh, and the city’s famous riverside ghats are periodically submerged when monsoon rainfall across the wider Ganges basin, not just locally, pushes river levels up between July and September. Because the river’s response to distant upstream rain can lag by a day or more, radar coverage across the broader basin is often more useful for anticipating ghat flooding than local rainfall alone.
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