Rainy days · New York
How often does it rain in Syracuse?
Syracuse is wet nearly every other day and still acts like the sun owes it money.
Syracuse gets measurable rain or snow on about 174 days a year, adding up to about 40 inches.
November usually brings Syracuse about 16 wet days and 3.2 inches. The wettest month is usually January, with about 19 wet days, and the driest is August, with about 11 wet days. That makes Syracuse number 2 of the 129 US cities we track, rainiest first.
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Rainy days, month by month
| Month | Wet days | Inches |
|---|---|---|
| January | 19 | 2.6 |
| February | 17 | 2.4 |
| March | 16 | 3.0 |
| April | 15 | 3.5 |
| May | 13 | 3.4 |
| June | 12 | 3.6 |
| July | 12 | 3.9 |
| August | 11 | 3.7 |
| September | 11 | 3.4 |
| October | 15 | 3.9 |
| November | 16 | 3.2 |
| December | 19 | 3.2 |
Cities with about as many rainy days
- Rochester, New York: about 168 wet days a year
- Youngstown, Ohio: about 168 wet days a year
- Erie, Pennsylvania: about 167 wet days a year
Source: NOAA daily precipitation records for the Syracuse 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.