Rainy days · North Carolina
How often does it rain in Charlotte?
Charlotte’s rain moves through like a bank transfer: fast, regular and slightly impersonal.
Charlotte gets measurable rain or snow on about 112 days a year, adding up to about 44 inches.
November usually brings Charlotte about 8 wet days and 3.3 inches. The wettest month is usually June, with about 11 wet days, and the driest is October, with about 7 wet days. That makes Charlotte number 77 of the 129 US cities we track, rainiest first.
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Rainy days, month by month
| Month | Wet days | Inches |
|---|---|---|
| January | 10 | 3.5 |
| February | 10 | 3.1 |
| March | 10 | 4.0 |
| April | 9 | 3.8 |
| May | 10 | 3.4 |
| June | 11 | 4.0 |
| July | 11 | 3.7 |
| August | 10 | 4.3 |
| September | 8 | 3.7 |
| October | 7 | 3.2 |
| November | 8 | 3.3 |
| December | 10 | 3.6 |
Cities with about as many rainy days
- Spokane, Washington: about 113 wet days a year
- Des Moines, Iowa: about 113 wet days a year
- Memphis, Tennessee: about 111 wet days a year
Source: NOAA daily precipitation records for the Charlotte 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.