Rainy days · Texas
How often does it rain in Lubbock?
Lubbock’s rain is rare enough that people stop and watch it like a parade.
Lubbock gets measurable rain or snow on about 63 days a year, adding up to about 18 inches.
November usually brings Lubbock about 4 wet days and 0.8 inches. The wettest month is usually June, with about 8 wet days, and the driest is January, with about 4 wet days. That makes Lubbock number 118 of the 129 US cities we track, rainiest first.
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Rainy days, month by month
| Month | Wet days | Inches |
|---|---|---|
| January | 4 | 0.7 |
| February | 4 | 0.7 |
| March | 5 | 1.1 |
| April | 4 | 1.3 |
| May | 7 | 2.7 |
| June | 8 | 2.6 |
| July | 6 | 2.0 |
| August | 6 | 1.7 |
| September | 6 | 2.5 |
| October | 6 | 1.5 |
| November | 4 | 0.8 |
| December | 4 | 0.8 |
Cities with about as many rainy days
- San Jose, California: about 61 wet days a year
- San Francisco, California: about 65 wet days a year
- Sacramento, California: about 58 wet days a year
Source: NOAA daily precipitation records for the Lubbock 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.