Rainy days · Colorado
How often does it rain in Denver?
Denver’s rain is mostly a quick afternoon cameo before the sun takes the stage again.
Denver gets measurable rain or snow on about 82 days a year, adding up to about 14 inches.
November usually brings Denver about 5 wet days and 0.7 inches. The wettest month is usually May, with about 10 wet days, and the driest is December, with about 4 wet days. That makes Denver number 109 of the 129 US cities we track, rainiest first.
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Rainy days, month by month
| Month | Wet days | Inches |
|---|---|---|
| January | 5 | 0.4 |
| February | 5 | 0.4 |
| March | 7 | 0.9 |
| April | 9 | 1.7 |
| May | 10 | 2.1 |
| June | 8 | 1.8 |
| July | 9 | 2.1 |
| August | 8 | 1.6 |
| September | 6 | 1.1 |
| October | 6 | 1.0 |
| November | 5 | 0.7 |
| December | 4 | 0.4 |
Cities with about as many rainy days
- San Antonio, Texas: about 81 wet days a year
- Flagstaff, Arizona: about 82 wet days a year
- Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: about 83 wet days a year
Source: NOAA daily precipitation records for the Denver area, 1991 to 2020 (at least 29 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.