Rainy days · Ohio
How often does it rain in Cleveland?
Cleveland rain comes in off the lake with the confidence of a team that has never once lost at home.
Cleveland gets measurable rain or snow on about 158 days a year, adding up to about 41 inches.
November usually brings Cleveland about 13 wet days and 3.4 inches. The wettest month is usually January, with about 18 wet days, and the driest is September, with about 10 wet days. That makes Cleveland number 10 of the 129 US cities we track, rainiest first.
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Rainy days, month by month
| Month | Wet days | Inches |
|---|---|---|
| January | 18 | 3.0 |
| February | 14 | 2.5 |
| March | 15 | 3.1 |
| April | 15 | 3.7 |
| May | 13 | 3.8 |
| June | 12 | 3.8 |
| July | 11 | 3.7 |
| August | 10 | 3.5 |
| September | 10 | 3.9 |
| October | 12 | 3.6 |
| November | 13 | 3.4 |
| December | 16 | 3.0 |
Cities with about as many rainy days
- Burlington, Vermont: about 157 wet days a year
- Akron, Ohio: about 160 wet days a year
- Seattle, Washington: about 156 wet days a year
Source: NOAA daily precipitation records for the Cleveland 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.