Rainy days · Washington
How often does it rain in Spokane?
Spokane’s rain spends winter on the city and summer on vacation somewhere far away.
Spokane gets measurable rain or snow on about 113 days a year, adding up to about 16 inches.
November usually brings Spokane about 13 wet days and 2.1 inches. The wettest month is usually January, with about 14 wet days, and the driest is August, with about 3 wet days. That makes Spokane number 76 of the 129 US cities we track, rainiest first.
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Rainy days, month by month
| Month | Wet days | Inches |
|---|---|---|
| January | 14 | 2.0 |
| February | 11 | 1.4 |
| March | 12 | 1.8 |
| April | 10 | 1.3 |
| May | 10 | 1.5 |
| June | 8 | 1.2 |
| July | 4 | 0.4 |
| August | 3 | 0.5 |
| September | 5 | 0.6 |
| October | 9 | 1.4 |
| November | 13 | 2.1 |
| December | 14 | 2.3 |
Cities with about as many rainy days
- Charlotte, North Carolina: about 112 wet days a year
- Des Moines, Iowa: about 113 wet days a year
- Charleston, South Carolina: about 114 wet days a year
Source: NOAA daily precipitation records for the Spokane 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.