Rainy days · Iowa
How often does it rain in Dubuque?
Dubuque’s rain rolls down the Mississippi bluffs like it’s sightseeing.
Dubuque gets measurable rain or snow on about 119 days a year, adding up to about 38 inches.
November usually brings Dubuque about 8 wet days and 2.2 inches. The wettest month is usually May, with about 13 wet days, and the driest is November, with about 8 wet days. That makes Dubuque number 53 of the 129 US cities we track, rainiest first.
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Rainy days, month by month
| Month | Wet days | Inches |
|---|---|---|
| January | 9 | 1.3 |
| February | 9 | 1.6 |
| March | 10 | 2.3 |
| April | 11 | 4.1 |
| May | 13 | 4.3 |
| June | 12 | 5.2 |
| July | 10 | 4.8 |
| August | 9 | 4.0 |
| September | 9 | 3.8 |
| October | 9 | 2.9 |
| November | 8 | 2.2 |
| December | 9 | 1.8 |
Cities with about as many rainy days
- Richmond, Virginia: about 119 wet days a year
- Norfolk, Virginia: about 118 wet days a year
- Minneapolis, Minnesota: about 119 wet days a year
Source: NOAA daily precipitation records for the Dubuque 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.