Comparison of the trend of people’s perceptions and the climatic trends (social data: Quantitative data: Household survey (n = 660); qualitative data: Focus group discussions (n = 12), in-depth interviews (n = 27); climate data: Climate extreme indices, Table 1).

In addition, the temporal trend is given for the perceptions related to the monsoon (S9 Fig). Depending on the perception, the presence of a trend (yes, no, unclear/mixed) or a trend direction (increase, decrease, unclear) is given. Significance of each data type is presented in detail in Figs 2–5. Qualitative data trend of people’s perception was evaluated by the authors. The trend in quantitative data is always represented by the most frequently occurring value, if it is not clearly different from the others it was given as unclear (Figs 1 and 5). Climatic trend was given by summarizing observed (significant) trends (Figs 3, 4 and S9 Fig). Brackets indicate only a small trend (climate = one or a few significant indices, temporal shift = no significant trend). NA = data not available. Green color = social and climate data is matching. Grey color = one data type is missing, so a comparison is not possible (details S4 File).