Rainy days · Texas
How often does it rain in Dallas?
Dallas gets a handful of wet days a month and treats each one as a personal inconvenience.
Dallas gets measurable rain or snow on about 79 days a year, adding up to about 37 inches.
November usually brings Dallas about 6 wet days and 2.5 inches. The wettest month is usually May, with about 9 wet days, and the driest is July, with about 4 wet days. That makes Dallas number 113 of the 129 US cities we track, rainiest first.
Last updated
Rain is in the forecast for the next 48 hours.
Live 48-hour check from OpenWeatherMap, refreshed about every half hour. Alerts from the National Weather Service.
Rainy days, month by month
| Month | Wet days | Inches |
|---|---|---|
| January | 7 | 2.5 |
| February | 7 | 2.8 |
| March | 8 | 3.3 |
| April | 7 | 3.2 |
| May | 9 | 4.8 |
| June | 7 | 3.7 |
| July | 4 | 2.1 |
| August | 5 | 2.2 |
| September | 5 | 2.7 |
| October | 7 | 4.4 |
| November | 6 | 2.5 |
| December | 7 | 2.8 |
Cities with about as many rainy days
- Corpus Christi, Texas: about 79 wet days a year
- San Antonio, Texas: about 81 wet days a year
- Denver, Colorado: about 82 wet days a year
Source: NOAA daily precipitation records for the Dallas-Fort Worth 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.