Rainy days · Kentucky
How often does it rain in Lexington?
Lexington gets enough rain to keep the bluegrass blue and the bourbon country very well watered.
Lexington gets measurable rain or snow on about 134 days a year, adding up to about 50 inches.
November usually brings Lexington about 10 wet days and 3.4 inches. The wettest month is usually March, with about 13 wet days, and the driest is September, with about 8 wet days. That makes Lexington number 27 of the 129 US cities we track, rainiest first.
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Rainy days, month by month
| Month | Wet days | Inches |
|---|---|---|
| January | 13 | 3.4 |
| February | 12 | 3.6 |
| March | 13 | 4.5 |
| April | 13 | 4.4 |
| May | 13 | 5.4 |
| June | 12 | 5.0 |
| July | 11 | 5.1 |
| August | 10 | 3.7 |
| September | 8 | 3.4 |
| October | 9 | 3.7 |
| November | 10 | 3.4 |
| December | 13 | 4.2 |
Cities with about as many rainy days
- Dayton, Ohio: about 134 wet days a year
- Duluth, Minnesota: about 133 wet days a year
- Toledo, Ohio: about 133 wet days a year
Source: NOAA daily precipitation records for the Lexington 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.