Rainy days · Louisiana
How often does it rain in Shreveport?
Shreveport’s rain is generous, Southern and not in any particular hurry to leave.
Shreveport gets measurable rain or snow on about 101 days a year, adding up to about 51 inches.
November usually brings Shreveport about 8 wet days and 4.0 inches. The wettest month is usually March, with about 10 wet days, and the driest is August, with about 7 wet days. That makes Shreveport number 94 of the 129 US cities we track, rainiest first.
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Rainy days, month by month
| Month | Wet days | Inches |
|---|---|---|
| January | 9 | 4.4 |
| February | 10 | 4.3 |
| March | 10 | 4.9 |
| April | 8 | 5.2 |
| May | 9 | 4.5 |
| June | 9 | 4.8 |
| July | 8 | 3.5 |
| August | 7 | 2.9 |
| September | 7 | 3.5 |
| October | 8 | 4.6 |
| November | 8 | 4.0 |
| December | 10 | 4.9 |
Cities with about as many rainy days
- Cheyenne, Wyoming: about 101 wet days a year
- Bismarck, North Dakota: about 100 wet days a year
- Sioux City, Iowa: about 102 wet days a year
Source: NOAA daily precipitation records for the Shreveport 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.