Rainy days · North Dakota
How often does it rain in Fargo?
Fargo spends more time worrying about wind than rain, and the rain is frankly a bit hurt.
Fargo gets measurable rain or snow on about 109 days a year, adding up to about 24 inches.
November usually brings Fargo about 8 wet days and 1.0 inches. The wettest month is usually June, with about 12 wet days, and the driest is February, with about 7 wet days. That makes Fargo number 82 of the 129 US cities we track, rainiest first.
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Rainy days, month by month
| Month | Wet days | Inches |
|---|---|---|
| January | 9 | 0.7 |
| February | 7 | 0.7 |
| March | 8 | 1.3 |
| April | 8 | 1.5 |
| May | 11 | 3.1 |
| June | 12 | 4.3 |
| July | 10 | 3.1 |
| August | 9 | 2.6 |
| September | 9 | 2.7 |
| October | 9 | 2.2 |
| November | 8 | 1.0 |
| December | 10 | 0.9 |
Cities with about as many rainy days
- Columbia, South Carolina: about 109 wet days a year
- Tampa, Florida: about 108 wet days a year
- Savannah, Georgia: about 108 wet days a year
Source: NOAA daily precipitation records for the Fargo 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.