Rainy days · California
How often does it rain in Los Angeles?
Los Angeles gets so few wet days that everyone drives like each one is the first rain in history.
Los Angeles gets measurable rain or snow on about 35 days a year, adding up to about 12 inches.
November usually brings Los Angeles about 3 wet days and 0.8 inches. The wettest month is usually February, with about 6 wet days, and the driest is August, with less than 1 wet day. That makes Los Angeles number 127 of the 129 US cities we track, rainiest first.
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Rainy days, month by month
| Month | Wet days | Inches |
|---|---|---|
| January | 6 | 2.9 |
| February | 6 | 3.0 |
| March | 6 | 1.7 |
| April | 3 | 0.6 |
| May | 2 | 0.3 |
| June | 1 | 0.1 |
| July | 1 | trace |
| August | 0 | trace |
| September | 1 | 0.1 |
| October | 2 | 0.5 |
| November | 3 | 0.8 |
| December | 5 | 2.2 |
Cities with about as many rainy days
- Phoenix, Arizona: about 33 wet days a year
- San Diego, California: about 40 wet days a year
- Las Vegas, Nevada: about 26 wet days a year
Source: NOAA daily precipitation records for the Los Angeles 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.