This study examines how farmers and local people of eastern Uttar Pradesh(UP) in the Indo-Gangetic region of India perceive climate change.This has been achieved by comparing the perception and responses of people with available metrological and agricultural data in Allahabad district of U.P.The outcomes of the study were also compared in terms of traditional and current weather descriptios which point towards a significant shift in age-old weather patterns and allied agricultural activities.Temperature and rainfall analysis of 108 years(1901-2008) envisaged remarkable similarity between perceptions and different agro-met data.Findings support irregularities/variability in temperature and rainfall,alerting seasonal patterns and unpredictability in anticipatory knowledge of traditional folklores that were some common surfacing attributes in consequence of climate change.Favourable responses of different climatic effects/changes ranged from 30;to 100;.Sustantial changes in land cover were found to be 25-100;for indigenous crops which also reflected quantum loss agro-biodiversity.Changes in climate preceived by local people significantly fovoured the results of the present study.