Rainy days · Texas
How often does it rain in Austin?
Austin’s rain is rare enough that the whole city talks about it like a surprise gig.
Austin gets measurable rain or snow on about 84 days a year, adding up to about 36 inches.
November usually brings Austin about 7 wet days and 2.6 inches. The wettest month is usually March, with about 9 wet days, and the driest is August, with about 5 wet days. That makes Austin number 107 of the 129 US cities we track, rainiest first.
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Rainy days, month by month
| Month | Wet days | Inches |
|---|---|---|
| January | 8 | 3.1 |
| February | 8 | 2.0 |
| March | 9 | 2.9 |
| April | 7 | 2.5 |
| May | 8 | 5.1 |
| June | 7 | 3.1 |
| July | 5 | 2.1 |
| August | 5 | 2.7 |
| September | 7 | 3.2 |
| October | 7 | 4.2 |
| November | 7 | 2.6 |
| December | 8 | 2.8 |
Cities with about as many rainy days
- Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: about 83 wet days a year
- Flagstaff, Arizona: about 82 wet days a year
- Denver, Colorado: about 82 wet days a year
Source: NOAA daily precipitation records for the Austin area, 1991 to 2020 (at least 23 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.