Rainy days · Nebraska
How often does it rain in Lincoln?
Lincoln’s rain falls on a lot of very flat land and has nowhere to hide.
Lincoln gets measurable rain or snow on about 95 days a year, adding up to about 29 inches.
November usually brings Lincoln about 5 wet days and 1.3 inches. The wettest month is usually May, with about 12 wet days, and the driest is November, with about 5 wet days. That makes Lincoln number 99 of the 129 US cities we track, rainiest first.
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Rainy days, month by month
| Month | Wet days | Inches |
|---|---|---|
| January | 6 | 0.7 |
| February | 6 | 0.9 |
| March | 8 | 1.6 |
| April | 10 | 2.7 |
| May | 12 | 4.9 |
| June | 10 | 4.5 |
| July | 9 | 3.3 |
| August | 9 | 3.3 |
| September | 7 | 2.9 |
| October | 7 | 2.1 |
| November | 5 | 1.3 |
| December | 6 | 1.2 |
Cities with about as many rainy days
- Tulsa, Oklahoma: about 94 wet days a year
- Rapid City, South Dakota: about 96 wet days a year
- Billings, Montana: about 97 wet days a year
Source: NOAA daily precipitation records for the Lincoln 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.