The Marine Drive promenade and its tetrapods curving toward Nariman Point on a clear day
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right now.

Dhoop tez hai, boss. Nimbu paani ka time.

The city through the day

Marine Drive · Photo by Swaminathan, CC BY 2.0

Vital signs

The Board

Read from Mumbai just now

Mumbai

15:18 IST

Indian Standard Time

Temp

37°C

Feels like 38°, humidity 30%

Sky

CLEAR

11% cloud, wind 3 km/h

Rain

DRY

0.1 mm expected today

More in the Monsoon Room

Waves

0.5 M

Open-sea height off the coast

Tide

low 17:07

Then high 23:31. Modelled, so approximate.

More in the Monsoon Room

Air

AQI 183

Unhealthy. PM2.5 at 49 µg/m³

Sunset

18:18

Today

It is 15:18 in Bombay

What to do with this hour

A local on call

Ask Bombay

Tell it how much time you have and where you are. It knows the guide, the hour, the weather and the tide.

Get around

The Line

Nobody learns this city by map. You learn it by station. Pick a lit stop and step off.

Western LineChurchgate to Virar

  8. Prabhadevi
  10. Matunga Road
  13. Khar Road
  14. Santacruz
  17. Jogeshwari
  18. Ram Mandir
  21. Kandivali
  23. Dahisar
  24. Mira Road
  25. Bhayandar
  26. Naigaon
  28. Nallasopara
  29. Virar

Central LineCSMT to Kalyan

  3. Sandhurst Road
  5. Chinchpokli
  6. Currey Road
  7. Parel
  12. Vidyavihar
  13. Ghatkopar
  14. Vikhroli
  15. Kanjurmarg
  16. Bhandup
  17. Nahur
  18. Mulund
  20. Kalva
  21. Mumbra
  22. Diva
  23. Kopar
  24. Dombivli
  25. Thakurli

Harbour LineCSMT to Panvel

  3. Sandhurst Road
  4. Dockyard Road
  5. Reay Road
  6. Cotton Green
  8. Vadala Road
  9. GTB Nagar
  10. Chunabhatti
  12. Tilak Nagar
  14. Govandi
  15. Mankhurd
  17. Sanpada
  18. Juinagar
  19. Nerul
  20. Seawoods–Darave
  21. Belapur CBD
  22. Kharghar
  23. Mansarovar
  24. Khandeshwar
  25. Panvel
Boys playing cricket on the Oval Maidan with the Bombay High Court behind the palms

Oval Maidan · Photo by Rangan Datta Wiki, CC BY-SA 4.0

Western Line

Churchgate

चर्चगेट

Where the Western Line begins and the office crowd spills out.

The southern end of the Western Line. Step out and you are between two centuries: Victorian Gothic towers on one side of the Oval Maidan, a curved row of Art Deco apartments on the other. The sea is a five-minute walk west.

  • Oval Maidan cricket
  • Art Deco row
  • Eros Cinema
  • Walk to Marine Drive
Step off at Churchgate

11 places to see, eat and walk around it.

27 stops are open so far, with 200 places in the guide. The faded stations are still being written. First time on a Mumbai train? Read Riding the Local. Know it already? Play Which station?

What is coming

The City’s Year

Bombay does not have seasons so much as festivals. These are the next three.

See the whole year

  • On now, day 1 of 9

    Navratri

    11 to 19 October · Garba grounds across the suburbs

  • In 9 days

    Dussehra

    Tuesday 20 October · Maidans across the city

  • In 4 weeks

    Diwali

    Sunday 8 November · Everywhere, and best along Marine Drive

Where to go

The Guide

200 places that have earned their spot, sorted by the station you get off at. Six to start with.

Open the whole guide

New here?

Your first day

How to move, walk, eat and talk as if you had always lived here.

  • How the city moves

    Riding the Local

    Fast or slow, which coach to board, and how to get off at Dadar at six in the evening.

  • On foot

    11 walks

    Each one starts at a station and strings the guide's places into a few good hours.

  • What the city eats

    The Plate

    29 dishes Bombay made its own, and the old counters that still serve them.

  • Today’s word

    Dhinchak

    Loud, flashy and full of beat, like a wedding band.

Bombay, 1890s

Then & Now

Hand-coloured prints of the city from the 1890s, beside the same neighbourhoods today.

See all 5

Rain and tide

Monsoon Room

The city runs on rain for four months and talks about it for the other eight. Here is the count.

Step into the Monsoon Room
Since 1 June
1,950mm
Week ahead
Dry
Rainy days
97