Rainy days · Pennsylvania
How often does it rain in Erie?
Erie borrows water from the lake all year and returns it straight onto the city.
Erie gets measurable rain or snow on about 167 days a year, adding up to about 43 inches.
November usually brings Erie about 15 wet days and 3.8 inches. The wettest month is usually January, with about 20 wet days, and the driest is September, with about 10 wet days. That makes Erie number 5 of the 129 US cities we track, rainiest first.
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Rainy days, month by month
| Month | Wet days | Inches |
|---|---|---|
| January | 20 | 3.4 |
| February | 15 | 2.5 |
| March | 14 | 3.1 |
| April | 14 | 3.5 |
| May | 14 | 3.5 |
| June | 12 | 3.7 |
| July | 11 | 3.3 |
| August | 10 | 3.4 |
| September | 10 | 4.3 |
| October | 14 | 4.4 |
| November | 15 | 3.8 |
| December | 18 | 4.1 |
Cities with about as many rainy days
- Buffalo, New York: about 166 wet days a year
- Youngstown, Ohio: about 168 wet days a year
- Rochester, New York: about 168 wet days a year
Source: NOAA daily precipitation records for the Erie 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.