Rainy days · North Carolina
How often does it rain in Greensboro?
Greensboro’s rain is steady and sensible, like a city that knows its furniture.
Greensboro gets measurable rain or snow on about 116 days a year, adding up to about 44 inches.
November usually brings Greensboro about 8 wet days and 3.3 inches. The wettest month is usually July, with about 11 wet days, and the driest is October, with about 8 wet days. That makes Greensboro number 64 of the 129 US cities we track, rainiest first.
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Rainy days, month by month
| Month | Wet days | Inches |
|---|---|---|
| January | 10 | 3.4 |
| February | 9 | 2.8 |
| March | 11 | 3.7 |
| April | 10 | 3.8 |
| May | 11 | 3.5 |
| June | 11 | 4.1 |
| July | 11 | 4.2 |
| August | 10 | 4.4 |
| September | 8 | 4.6 |
| October | 8 | 3.0 |
| November | 8 | 3.3 |
| December | 9 | 3.2 |
Cities with about as many rainy days
- Atlanta, Georgia: about 116 wet days a year
- Pensacola, Florida: about 115 wet days a year
- Anchorage, Alaska: about 115 wet days a year
Source: NOAA daily precipitation records for the Greensboro 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.