Rainy days · New Mexico
How often does it rain in Albuquerque?
Albuquerque’s rain shows up in midsummer, makes a big entrance and leaves the desert smelling amazing.
Albuquerque gets measurable rain or snow on about 56 days a year, adding up to about 9 inches.
November usually brings Albuquerque about 3 wet days and 0.6 inches. The wettest month is usually July, with about 9 wet days, and the driest is April, with about 3 wet days. That makes Albuquerque number 121 of the 129 US cities we track, rainiest first.
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Rainy days, month by month
| Month | Wet days | Inches |
|---|---|---|
| January | 4 | 0.4 |
| February | 4 | 0.4 |
| March | 4 | 0.5 |
| April | 3 | 0.5 |
| May | 4 | 0.4 |
| June | 4 | 0.6 |
| July | 9 | 1.6 |
| August | 8 | 1.3 |
| September | 6 | 1.1 |
| October | 5 | 0.9 |
| November | 3 | 0.6 |
| December | 4 | 0.5 |
Cities with about as many rainy days
- Sacramento, California: about 58 wet days a year
- San Jose, California: about 61 wet days a year
- Reno, Nevada: about 51 wet days a year
Source: NOAA daily precipitation records for the Albuquerque area, 1991 to 2020 (at least 30 complete years behind every month), via the Applied Climate Information System. A wet day here means at least a hundredth of an inch of rain or melted snow.