Dark clouds hovered over the national capital on Wednesday, but rains kept the residents waiting.
Most places in the city remained dry, despite the weather department's forecast of moderate to heavy rains.
The Safdarjung Observatory, which provides representative figures for the city, recorded just 0.2 mm rainfall.
The maximum temperature settled at 36.2 degrees Celsius, two notches above normal. Humidity levels shot up to 92 per cent, causing inconvenience to residents.
Earlier, the India Meteorological Department had predicted moderate to heavy rains in the city on Wednesday and Thursday.
Mahesh Palwat, an expert at Skymet Weather, a private forecasting agency, said the city received on pathy rains as the axis of monsoon trough kept on oscillating.
The monsoon trough remained south of Delhi mostly. One after another, weather systems continued to develop over central India which pulled the monsoon axis towards north Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, he said.
After more than normal rainfall in July, monsoonal precipitation has remained subdued in Delhi in August so far.
The Safdarjung Observatory has recorded just 31.1 mm rainfall in August so far against the normal of 109.6 mm, a deficiency of 72 percent.
The Palam and Lodhi Road weather stations have recorded 51 per cent and 77 per cent less rains this month.
In July, Delhi had gauged 236.9 mm precipitation, which was 12 percent more than the normal of 210.6 mm.
