Rainy days · Pennsylvania
How often does it rain in Harrisburg?
Harrisburg’s rain rolls down the Susquehanna with nowhere particular to be.
Harrisburg gets measurable rain or snow on about 126 days a year, adding up to about 44 inches.
November usually brings Harrisburg about 9 wet days and 3.0 inches. The wettest month is usually May, with about 13 wet days, and the driest is November, with about 9 wet days. That makes Harrisburg number 41 of the 129 US cities we track, rainiest first.
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Rainy days, month by month
| Month | Wet days | Inches |
|---|---|---|
| January | 11 | 3.0 |
| February | 10 | 2.6 |
| March | 11 | 3.7 |
| April | 12 | 3.5 |
| May | 13 | 3.8 |
| June | 11 | 4.0 |
| July | 11 | 4.7 |
| August | 10 | 3.8 |
| September | 9 | 4.8 |
| October | 9 | 3.8 |
| November | 9 | 3.0 |
| December | 10 | 3.4 |
Cities with about as many rainy days
- Chicago, Illinois: about 126 wet days a year
- Madison, Wisconsin: about 126 wet days a year
- New York, New York: about 125 wet days a year
Source: NOAA daily precipitation records for the Harrisburg 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.