Rainy days · Tennessee
How often does it rain in Nashville?
Nashville rain sounds better than most cities’ rain, mainly because somebody is probably writing a song about it.
Nashville gets measurable rain or snow on about 123 days a year, adding up to about 50 inches.
November usually brings Nashville about 9 wet days and 3.9 inches. The wettest month is usually March, with about 12 wet days, and the driest is September, with about 8 wet days. That makes Nashville number 47 of the 129 US cities we track, rainiest first.
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Rainy days, month by month
| Month | Wet days | Inches |
|---|---|---|
| January | 11 | 4.0 |
| February | 11 | 4.5 |
| March | 12 | 4.5 |
| April | 11 | 4.7 |
| May | 12 | 5.0 |
| June | 11 | 4.4 |
| July | 10 | 4.2 |
| August | 9 | 3.8 |
| September | 8 | 3.8 |
| October | 8 | 3.4 |
| November | 9 | 3.9 |
| December | 11 | 4.4 |
Cities with about as many rainy days
- Newark, New Jersey: about 123 wet days a year
- Chattanooga, Tennessee: about 123 wet days a year
- Missoula, Montana: about 124 wet days a year
Source: NOAA daily precipitation records for the Nashville 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.