Rainy days · Pennsylvania
How often does it rain in Scranton?
Scranton’s rain is steady, unremarkable and somehow always there when the paperwork is due.
Scranton gets measurable rain or snow on about 139 days a year, adding up to about 39 inches.
November usually brings Scranton about 10 wet days and 2.8 inches. The wettest month is usually May, with about 13 wet days, and the driest is September, with about 10 wet days. That makes Scranton number 21 of the 129 US cities we track, rainiest first.
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Rainy days, month by month
| Month | Wet days | Inches |
|---|---|---|
| January | 13 | 2.6 |
| February | 11 | 2.1 |
| March | 12 | 2.8 |
| April | 12 | 3.3 |
| May | 13 | 3.3 |
| June | 13 | 3.8 |
| July | 11 | 3.6 |
| August | 11 | 3.8 |
| September | 10 | 4.1 |
| October | 11 | 3.7 |
| November | 10 | 2.8 |
| December | 12 | 2.8 |
Cities with about as many rainy days
- Albany, New York: about 139 wet days a year
- Columbus, Ohio: about 141 wet days a year
- Lansing, Michigan: about 138 wet days a year
Source: NOAA daily precipitation records for the Wilkes-Barre and Scranton 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.