Rainy days · Illinois
How often does it rain in Rockford?
Rockford’s rain is honest Midwestern rain: shows up, gets the job done, leaves quietly.
Rockford gets measurable rain or snow on about 121 days a year, adding up to about 37 inches.
November usually brings Rockford about 9 wet days and 2.3 inches. The wettest month is usually May, with about 13 wet days, and the driest is September, with about 8 wet days. That makes Rockford number 52 of the 129 US cities we track, rainiest first.
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Rainy days, month by month
| Month | Wet days | Inches |
|---|---|---|
| January | 10 | 1.6 |
| February | 9 | 1.6 |
| March | 11 | 2.4 |
| April | 12 | 3.8 |
| May | 13 | 4.2 |
| June | 11 | 5.2 |
| July | 9 | 3.8 |
| August | 9 | 4.2 |
| September | 8 | 3.6 |
| October | 10 | 2.6 |
| November | 9 | 2.3 |
| December | 10 | 1.9 |
Cities with about as many rainy days
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: about 121 wet days a year
- Orlando, Florida: about 121 wet days a year
- Baltimore, Maryland: about 121 wet days a year
Source: NOAA daily precipitation records for the Rockford 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.