Rainy days · New York
How often does it rain in Rochester?
Rochester has turned damp into a lifestyle and quietly judges anyone who owns sunglasses.
Rochester gets measurable rain or snow on about 168 days a year, adding up to about 35 inches.
November usually brings Rochester about 15 wet days and 2.8 inches. The wettest month is usually January, with about 20 wet days, and the driest is August, with about 10 wet days. That makes Rochester number 3 of the 129 US cities we track, rainiest first.
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Rainy days, month by month
| Month | Wet days | Inches |
|---|---|---|
| January | 20 | 2.5 |
| February | 16 | 2.1 |
| March | 15 | 2.5 |
| April | 13 | 3.0 |
| May | 12 | 2.9 |
| June | 12 | 3.4 |
| July | 11 | 3.6 |
| August | 10 | 3.3 |
| September | 11 | 3.2 |
| October | 14 | 3.2 |
| November | 15 | 2.8 |
| December | 18 | 2.7 |
Cities with about as many rainy days
- Youngstown, Ohio: about 168 wet days a year
- Erie, Pennsylvania: about 167 wet days a year
- Buffalo, New York: about 166 wet days a year
Source: NOAA daily precipitation records for the Rochester 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.