Rainy days · Wisconsin
How often does it rain in Milwaukee?
Milwaukee’s rain is just the lake topping up the city’s glass.
Milwaukee gets measurable rain or snow on about 125 days a year, adding up to about 35 inches.
November usually brings Milwaukee about 10 wet days and 2.2 inches. The wettest month is usually April, with about 12 wet days, and the driest is September, with about 9 wet days. That makes Milwaukee number 43 of the 129 US cities we track, rainiest first.
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Rainy days, month by month
| Month | Wet days | Inches |
|---|---|---|
| January | 11 | 1.8 |
| February | 10 | 1.7 |
| March | 11 | 2.2 |
| April | 12 | 3.9 |
| May | 12 | 3.5 |
| June | 11 | 4.4 |
| July | 10 | 3.4 |
| August | 10 | 3.6 |
| September | 9 | 3.2 |
| October | 10 | 2.8 |
| November | 10 | 2.2 |
| December | 10 | 1.9 |
Cities with about as many rainy days
- New York, New York: about 125 wet days a year
- Chicago, Illinois: about 126 wet days a year
- Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: about 126 wet days a year
Source: NOAA daily precipitation records for the Milwaukee 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.