Rainy days · North Carolina
How often does it rain in Asheville?
Asheville’s summer rain rolls off the Blue Ridge like it’s headed to the same brewery as everyone else.
Asheville gets measurable rain or snow on about 130 days a year, adding up to about 50 inches.
November usually brings Asheville about 9 wet days and 3.7 inches. The wettest month is usually July, with about 14 wet days, and the driest is October, with about 8 wet days. That makes Asheville number 32 of the 129 US cities we track, rainiest first.
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Rainy days, month by month
| Month | Wet days | Inches |
|---|---|---|
| January | 11 | 4.1 |
| February | 10 | 3.5 |
| March | 12 | 3.8 |
| April | 11 | 4.2 |
| May | 12 | 4.1 |
| June | 13 | 4.8 |
| July | 14 | 4.7 |
| August | 13 | 5.0 |
| September | 9 | 4.1 |
| October | 8 | 3.4 |
| November | 9 | 3.7 |
| December | 10 | 4.2 |
Cities with about as many rainy days
- Hartford, Connecticut: about 130 wet days a year
- Portland, Maine: about 131 wet days a year
- Knoxville, Tennessee: about 129 wet days a year
Source: NOAA daily precipitation records for the Asheville 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.