Rainy days · Arkansas
How often does it rain in Little Rock?
Little Rock gets a big rain total for a city with such a modest name.
Little Rock gets measurable rain or snow on about 106 days a year, adding up to about 50 inches.
November usually brings Little Rock about 9 wet days and 4.7 inches. The wettest month is usually May, with about 11 wet days, and the driest is September, with about 7 wet days. That makes Little Rock number 86 of the 129 US cities we track, rainiest first.
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Rainy days, month by month
| Month | Wet days | Inches |
|---|---|---|
| January | 9 | 3.5 |
| February | 9 | 4.0 |
| March | 11 | 5.0 |
| April | 9 | 5.6 |
| May | 11 | 5.1 |
| June | 8 | 3.5 |
| July | 9 | 3.3 |
| August | 7 | 3.2 |
| September | 7 | 3.0 |
| October | 8 | 4.5 |
| November | 9 | 4.7 |
| December | 10 | 5.1 |
Cities with about as many rainy days
- Fairbanks, Alaska: about 107 wet days a year
- Houston, Texas: about 104 wet days a year
- Savannah, Georgia: about 108 wet days a year
Source: NOAA daily precipitation records for the Little Rock 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.