Rainy days · Texas
How often does it rain in El Paso?
El Paso gets so little rain that a wet July afternoon is basically a festival.
El Paso gets measurable rain or snow on about 48 days a year, adding up to about 9 inches.
November usually brings El Paso about 3 wet days and 0.4 inches. The wettest month is usually July, with about 8 wet days, and the driest is April, with about 1 wet day. That makes El Paso number 123 of the 129 US cities we track, rainiest first.
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Rainy days, month by month
| Month | Wet days | Inches |
|---|---|---|
| January | 3 | 0.4 |
| February | 3 | 0.4 |
| March | 2 | 0.2 |
| April | 1 | 0.2 |
| May | 2 | 0.4 |
| June | 3 | 0.7 |
| July | 8 | 1.6 |
| August | 8 | 1.7 |
| September | 6 | 1.5 |
| October | 4 | 0.6 |
| November | 3 | 0.4 |
| December | 4 | 0.6 |
Cities with about as many rainy days
- Tucson, Arizona: about 47 wet days a year
- Fresno, California: about 47 wet days a year
- Reno, Nevada: about 51 wet days a year
Source: NOAA daily precipitation records for the El Paso 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.