Rainy days · New Jersey
How often does it rain in Newark?
Newark gets New York’s rain without New York’s attitude, which honestly is a fair trade.
Newark gets measurable rain or snow on about 123 days a year, adding up to about 47 inches.
November usually brings Newark about 9 wet days and 3.3 inches. The wettest month is usually April, with about 12 wet days, and the driest is September, with about 9 wet days. That makes Newark number 48 of the 129 US cities we track, rainiest first.
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Rainy days, month by month
| Month | Wet days | Inches |
|---|---|---|
| January | 11 | 3.4 |
| February | 10 | 3.0 |
| March | 11 | 4.1 |
| April | 12 | 3.9 |
| May | 11 | 4.0 |
| June | 11 | 4.3 |
| July | 10 | 4.7 |
| August | 10 | 4.2 |
| September | 9 | 3.8 |
| October | 9 | 3.8 |
| November | 9 | 3.3 |
| December | 11 | 4.1 |
Cities with about as many rainy days
- Nashville, Tennessee: 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 Newark 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.