Rainy days · Florida
How often does it rain in Jacksonville?
Jacksonville’s rain is spread across so much city it barely has time to say hello to each part.
Jacksonville gets measurable rain or snow on about 114 days a year, adding up to about 53 inches.
November usually brings Jacksonville about 7 wet days and 2.0 inches. The wettest month is usually August, with about 15 wet days, and the driest is April, with about 6 wet days. That makes Jacksonville number 71 of the 129 US cities we track, rainiest first.
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Rainy days, month by month
| Month | Wet days | Inches |
|---|---|---|
| January | 8 | 3.3 |
| February | 8 | 2.9 |
| March | 8 | 3.3 |
| April | 6 | 2.9 |
| May | 7 | 3.4 |
| June | 14 | 7.6 |
| July | 14 | 6.8 |
| August | 15 | 6.9 |
| September | 12 | 7.6 |
| October | 8 | 4.0 |
| November | 7 | 2.0 |
| December | 8 | 2.8 |
Cities with about as many rainy days
- Waterloo, Iowa: about 114 wet days a year
- St. Louis, Missouri: about 114 wet days a year
- Baton Rouge, Louisiana: about 114 wet days a year
Source: NOAA daily precipitation records for the Jacksonville 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.