Rainy days · Florida
How often does it rain in Tampa?
Tampa’s rain is a summer afternoon tradition, and November is when it finally takes a break.
Tampa gets measurable rain or snow on about 108 days a year, adding up to about 49 inches.
November usually brings Tampa about 5 wet days and 1.4 inches. The wettest month is usually July, with about 17 wet days, and the driest is November, with about 5 wet days. That makes Tampa number 84 of the 129 US cities we track, rainiest first.
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Rainy days, month by month
| Month | Wet days | Inches |
|---|---|---|
| January | 7 | 2.6 |
| February | 7 | 2.6 |
| March | 6 | 2.5 |
| April | 6 | 2.5 |
| May | 6 | 2.6 |
| June | 13 | 7.4 |
| July | 17 | 7.8 |
| August | 16 | 9.0 |
| September | 13 | 6.1 |
| October | 7 | 2.3 |
| November | 5 | 1.4 |
| December | 6 | 2.6 |
Cities with about as many rainy days
- Fargo, North Dakota: about 109 wet days a year
- Columbia, South Carolina: about 109 wet days a year
- Savannah, Georgia: about 108 wet days a year
Source: NOAA daily precipitation records for the Tampa Bay 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.