Rainy days · California
How often does it rain in Sacramento?
Sacramento rains all winter and then takes the summer completely off, no notes.
Sacramento gets measurable rain or snow on about 58 days a year, adding up to about 18 inches.
November usually brings Sacramento about 6 wet days and 1.6 inches. The wettest month is usually January, with about 10 wet days, and the driest is July, with less than 1 wet day. That makes Sacramento number 120 of the 129 US cities we track, rainiest first.
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Rainy days, month by month
| Month | Wet days | Inches |
|---|---|---|
| January | 10 | 3.7 |
| February | 9 | 3.5 |
| March | 9 | 2.7 |
| April | 5 | 1.3 |
| May | 4 | 0.8 |
| June | 1 | 0.2 |
| July | 0 | trace |
| August | 0 | trace |
| September | 1 | 0.1 |
| October | 3 | 0.8 |
| November | 6 | 1.6 |
| December | 10 | 3.4 |
Cities with about as many rainy days
- Albuquerque, New Mexico: about 56 wet days a year
- San Jose, California: about 61 wet days a year
- Lubbock, Texas: about 63 wet days a year
Source: NOAA daily precipitation records for the Sacramento area, 1991 to 2020 (at least 29 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.