Rainy days · Florida
How often does it rain in Miami?
Miami’s rain shows up every summer afternoon at the same time, like a very loud, very wet happy hour.
Miami gets measurable rain or snow on about 141 days a year, adding up to about 67 inches.
November usually brings Miami about 9 wet days and 3.5 inches. The wettest month is usually August, with about 19 wet days, and the driest is March, with about 6 wet days. That makes Miami number 19 of the 129 US cities we track, rainiest first.
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Rainy days, month by month
| Month | Wet days | Inches |
|---|---|---|
| January | 8 | 1.8 |
| February | 7 | 2.1 |
| March | 6 | 2.5 |
| April | 7 | 3.4 |
| May | 11 | 6.3 |
| June | 18 | 10.5 |
| July | 17 | 7.4 |
| August | 19 | 9.6 |
| September | 18 | 10.2 |
| October | 14 | 7.7 |
| November | 9 | 3.5 |
| December | 8 | 2.4 |
Cities with about as many rainy days
- Columbus, Ohio: about 141 wet days a year
- Albany, New York: about 139 wet days a year
- Scranton, Pennsylvania: about 139 wet days a year
Source: NOAA daily precipitation records for the Miami 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.