Rainy days · Minnesota
How often does it rain in Minneapolis?
Minneapolis rain is polite and brief, because everyone knows the real weather is coming in November.
Minneapolis gets measurable rain or snow on about 119 days a year, adding up to about 32 inches.
November usually brings Minneapolis about 8 wet days and 1.6 inches. The wettest month is usually May, with about 12 wet days, and the driest is February, with about 8 wet days. That makes Minneapolis number 54 of the 129 US cities we track, rainiest first.
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Rainy days, month by month
| Month | Wet days | Inches |
|---|---|---|
| January | 10 | 0.9 |
| February | 8 | 0.9 |
| March | 9 | 1.7 |
| April | 11 | 2.9 |
| May | 12 | 3.9 |
| June | 12 | 4.6 |
| July | 10 | 4.1 |
| August | 10 | 4.3 |
| September | 9 | 3.0 |
| October | 10 | 2.6 |
| November | 8 | 1.6 |
| December | 10 | 1.2 |
Cities with about as many rainy days
- Dubuque, Iowa: about 119 wet days a year
- Richmond, Virginia: about 119 wet days a year
- Norfolk, Virginia: about 118 wet days a year
Source: NOAA daily precipitation records for the Minneapolis-St Paul 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.