NCERT Solutions for Class 5th The World Around Us Chapter 9 The six seasons and their months — Seasons of India
Book page 156 Updated on2026-09-19
Q1.
Do you know how many seasons we have in India?
Answer
India has six seasons. They are Vasanta (Spring), Grishma (Summer), Varsha (Monsoon), Sharad (Autumn), Hemant (Pre-winter) and Shishir (Winter). Each one lasts about two months, and together they make one full year.
The six seasons of India, in order. When Shishir ends, Vasanta begins again — the rhythm of the year.
Why six and not four: Many countries name only four seasons. India names six because our year really does have six clearly different spells of weather. We have a long, separate rainy season that most cold countries do not have at all, and our cold weather comes in two steps — a gentle, dewy Hemant first, and then a sharp, foggy Shishir. Naming them separately describes India better.
Did you know? India holds both the wettest place on Earth — Mawsynram in Meghalaya — and one of the driest, the Thar Desert in Rajasthan. Both are in the same country and both get the same six seasons, but they feel completely different.
Q2.
Fill in the table: Seasons — Month of the Year (Fill it up for your region).
Seasons
Month of the Year (Fill it up for your region)
Vasanta (Spring)
Grishma (Summer)
Varsha (Monsoon)
Sharad (Autumn)
Hemant (Pre-winter)
Shishir (Winter)
The blank table printed on page 156.
Answer
Each season covers about two months. Below is the usual pattern for most of northern and central India. Your own region may be a few weeks earlier or later, so check with your teacher and your elders before you write in your book.
Seasons
Month of the Year (sample answer)
What it feels like
Vasanta (Spring)
Mid-February to mid-April (March – April)
Pleasant days, cool mornings. Flowers bloom, new leaves come, the koel calls.
Grishma (Summer)
Mid-April to mid-June (May – June)
Very hot and dry. Long days, hot wind, ponds drying up.
Varsha (Monsoon)
Mid-June to mid-August (July – August)
Heavy rain, cloudy sky, sticky air. Everything turns green.
Sharad (Autumn)
Mid-August to mid-October (September – October)
Rain stops, sky turns clear blue, crops ripen and are harvested.
Hemant (Pre-winter)
Mid-October to mid-December (November – December)
Cool and dry, dew in the morning, days getting shorter.
Shishir (Winter)
Mid-December to mid-February (January – February)
Coldest weeks, fog and frost, bare trees, long nights.
Some regions are quite different:
Region
How the year runs there
Kerala and the west coast
The rains come earlier — around the first week of June — and there is a second spell of rain in October–November. Winter is only mildly cool.
Kashmir valley
Winter is long and snowy, from November to March. Spring comes late, in April, when the almond and cherry trees blossom.
Rajasthan (Thar Desert)
Summer is extremely long and hot. The monsoon is short and gives very little rain. Winter nights are surprisingly cold.
Tamil Nadu
The main rain comes in October–December from the returning winds, not in June–July.
Assam and the north-east
The rains begin early and last very long, with a lot of rain in April–May as well.
Why the months are only approximate: Seasons do not begin on a fixed date the way a school term does. They shade into one another. The monsoon reaches Kerala first and takes about a month to spread across the country, so July in Kerala and July in Punjab are not the same thing at all. That is why the book says “fill it up for your region”.
Check it against real life: Ask when the school announces summer holidays, when the first heavy rain fell last year, and when the woollens were taken out. Those three dates will tell you your region's seasons better than any book.