Rainy days · Nevada
How often does it rain in Reno?
Reno rolls the dice on rain about once a week, and the house usually wins with sunshine.
Reno gets measurable rain or snow on about 51 days a year, adding up to about 7 inches.
November usually brings Reno about 4 wet days and 0.6 inches. The wettest month is usually February, with about 7 wet days, and the driest is August, with about 2 wet days. That makes Reno number 122 of the 129 US cities we track, rainiest first.
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Rainy days, month by month
| Month | Wet days | Inches |
|---|---|---|
| January | 7 | 1.3 |
| February | 7 | 1.0 |
| March | 6 | 0.8 |
| April | 5 | 0.4 |
| May | 4 | 0.6 |
| June | 3 | 0.4 |
| July | 2 | 0.2 |
| August | 2 | 0.3 |
| September | 2 | 0.2 |
| October | 3 | 0.5 |
| November | 4 | 0.6 |
| December | 7 | 1.1 |
Cities with about as many rainy days
- El Paso, Texas: about 48 wet days a year
- Tucson, Arizona: about 47 wet days a year
- Fresno, California: about 47 wet days a year
Source: NOAA daily precipitation records for the Reno 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.