Rainy days · Texas
How often does it rain in Amarillo?
Amarillo is dry enough that a wet day feels like a plot twist.
Amarillo gets measurable rain or snow on about 69 days a year, adding up to about 20 inches.
November usually brings Amarillo about 4 wet days and 0.8 inches. The wettest month is usually August, with about 8 wet days, and the driest is January, with about 4 wet days. That makes Amarillo number 116 of the 129 US cities we track, rainiest first.
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Rainy days, month by month
| Month | Wet days | Inches |
|---|---|---|
| January | 4 | 0.7 |
| February | 4 | 0.5 |
| March | 6 | 1.3 |
| April | 6 | 1.4 |
| May | 7 | 2.3 |
| June | 8 | 2.9 |
| July | 7 | 2.8 |
| August | 8 | 2.9 |
| September | 6 | 1.7 |
| October | 5 | 1.8 |
| November | 4 | 0.8 |
| December | 4 | 0.7 |
Cities with about as many rainy days
- Grand Junction, Colorado: about 71 wet days a year
- Yakima, Washington: about 72 wet days a year
- San Francisco, California: about 65 wet days a year
Source: NOAA daily precipitation records for the Amarillo 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.