Rainy days · Virginia
How often does it rain in Richmond?
Richmond’s summer rain arrives in short, loud bursts and then acts like nothing happened.
Richmond gets measurable rain or snow on about 119 days a year, adding up to about 45 inches.
November usually brings Richmond about 8 wet days and 3.1 inches. The wettest month is usually July, with about 11 wet days, and the driest is October, with about 8 wet days. That makes Richmond number 55 of the 129 US cities we track, rainiest first.
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Rainy days, month by month
| Month | Wet days | Inches |
|---|---|---|
| January | 10 | 3.2 |
| February | 9 | 2.6 |
| March | 11 | 4.0 |
| April | 11 | 3.2 |
| May | 11 | 4.0 |
| June | 11 | 4.6 |
| July | 11 | 4.4 |
| August | 9 | 4.9 |
| September | 9 | 4.6 |
| October | 8 | 3.4 |
| November | 8 | 3.1 |
| December | 10 | 3.5 |
Cities with about as many rainy days
- Dubuque, Iowa: about 119 wet days a year
- Norfolk, Virginia: about 118 wet days a year
- Minneapolis, Minnesota: about 119 wet days a year
Source: NOAA daily precipitation records for the Richmond 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.