Rainy days · Washington

How often does it rain in Yakima?

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Yakima gets measurable rain or snow on about 72 days a year, adding up to about 8 inches.

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November usually brings Yakima about 8 wet days and 0.8 inches. The wettest month is usually December, with about 10 wet days, and the driest is July, with about 2 wet days. That makes Yakima number 114 of the 129 US cities we track, rainiest first.

Last updated 6 November 2026

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Rainy days, month by month

Month	Wet days	Inches
January	10	1.2
February	7	0.8
March	7	0.6
April	6	0.6
May	6	0.7
June	5	0.5
July	2	0.2
August	2	0.2
September	3	0.2
October	6	0.6
November	8	0.8
December	10	1.4

Cities with about as many rainy days

Grand Junction, Colorado: about 71 wet days a year
Amarillo, Texas: about 69 wet days a year
San Francisco, California: about 65 wet days a year

Every city’s rainy days, rainiest first

Source: NOAA daily precipitation records for the Yakima 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.