Rainy days · Virginia
How often does it rain in Norfolk?
Norfolk gets so much summer rain the Navy probably counts it as a training exercise.
Norfolk gets measurable rain or snow on about 118 days a year, adding up to about 49 inches.
November usually brings Norfolk about 9 wet days and 3.1 inches. The wettest month is usually May, with about 11 wet days, and the driest is October, with about 8 wet days. That makes Norfolk number 57 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 | 9 | 2.9 |
| March | 11 | 3.7 |
| April | 10 | 3.4 |
| May | 11 | 3.8 |
| June | 10 | 4.4 |
| July | 11 | 6.1 |
| August | 10 | 5.8 |
| September | 9 | 5.4 |
| October | 8 | 3.9 |
| November | 9 | 3.1 |
| December | 10 | 3.3 |
Cities with about as many rainy days
- Dubuque, Iowa: about 119 wet days a year
- Richmond, Virginia: about 119 wet days a year
- Birmingham, Alabama: about 118 wet days a year
Source: NOAA daily precipitation records for the Norfolk 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.