Rainy days · Alaska
How often does it rain in Anchorage?
Anchorage saves its rain for late summer, right when everyone thought they’d finally dried out.
Anchorage gets measurable rain or snow on about 115 days a year, adding up to about 16 inches.
November usually brings Anchorage about 10 wet days and 1.2 inches. The wettest month is usually September, with about 15 wet days, and the driest is April, with about 5 wet days. That makes Anchorage number 65 of the 129 US cities we track, rainiest first.
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Rainy days, month by month
| Month | Wet days | Inches |
|---|---|---|
| January | 8 | 0.8 |
| February | 8 | 0.9 |
| March | 6 | 0.7 |
| April | 5 | 0.4 |
| May | 7 | 0.7 |
| June | 9 | 1.0 |
| July | 12 | 1.8 |
| August | 14 | 2.9 |
| September | 15 | 3.1 |
| October | 12 | 1.8 |
| November | 10 | 1.2 |
| December | 11 | 1.1 |
Cities with about as many rainy days
- New Orleans, Louisiana: about 115 wet days a year
- Pensacola, Florida: about 115 wet days a year
- Springfield, Illinois: about 115 wet days a year
Source: NOAA daily precipitation records for the Anchorage 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.