Rainy days · Michigan
How often does it rain in Lansing?
Lansing gets enough grey wet days to make a Michigan summer feel like a rumour.
Lansing gets measurable rain or snow on about 138 days a year, adding up to about 33 inches.
November usually brings Lansing about 12 wet days and 2.5 inches. The wettest month is usually January, with about 14 wet days, and the driest is July, with about 9 wet days. That makes Lansing number 22 of the 129 US cities we track, rainiest first.
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Rainy days, month by month
| Month | Wet days | Inches |
|---|---|---|
| January | 14 | 2.0 |
| February | 11 | 1.7 |
| March | 11 | 2.1 |
| April | 13 | 3.3 |
| May | 13 | 3.7 |
| June | 11 | 3.9 |
| July | 9 | 2.9 |
| August | 10 | 3.5 |
| September | 10 | 2.8 |
| October | 12 | 3.1 |
| November | 12 | 2.5 |
| December | 14 | 1.9 |
Cities with about as many rainy days
- Scranton, Pennsylvania: about 139 wet days a year
- Albany, New York: about 139 wet days a year
- Detroit, Michigan: about 136 wet days a year
Source: NOAA daily precipitation records for the Lansing 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.