Rainy days · Louisiana
How often does it rain in New Orleans?
New Orleans rain is warm, heavy and somehow still in a better mood than everyone standing in it.
New Orleans gets measurable rain or snow on about 115 days a year, adding up to about 63 inches.
November usually brings New Orleans about 7 wet days and 3.9 inches. The wettest month is usually July, with about 14 wet days, and the driest is October, with about 7 wet days. That makes New Orleans number 66 of the 129 US cities we track, rainiest first.
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Rainy days, month by month
| Month | Wet days | Inches |
|---|---|---|
| January | 10 | 5.2 |
| February | 9 | 4.1 |
| March | 8 | 4.4 |
| April | 7 | 5.2 |
| May | 8 | 5.6 |
| June | 13 | 7.6 |
| July | 14 | 6.8 |
| August | 14 | 6.9 |
| September | 10 | 5.1 |
| October | 7 | 3.7 |
| November | 7 | 3.9 |
| December | 9 | 4.8 |
Cities with about as many rainy days
- Anchorage, Alaska: about 115 wet days a year
- Pensacola, Florida: about 115 wet days a year
- Springfield, Illinois: about 115 wet days a year
Source: NOAA daily precipitation records for the New Orleans 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.