Rainy days · Ohio
How often does it rain in Youngstown?
Youngstown gets so many grey wet days that a dry afternoon feels like a clerical error.
Youngstown gets measurable rain or snow on about 168 days a year, adding up to about 41 inches.
November usually brings Youngstown about 14 wet days and 3.0 inches. The wettest month is usually January, with about 19 wet days, and the driest is September, with about 10 wet days. That makes Youngstown number 4 of the 129 US cities we track, rainiest first.
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Rainy days, month by month
| Month | Wet days | Inches |
|---|---|---|
| January | 19 | 3.0 |
| February | 15 | 2.5 |
| March | 15 | 3.2 |
| April | 15 | 3.8 |
| May | 14 | 3.7 |
| June | 13 | 3.9 |
| July | 11 | 4.3 |
| August | 11 | 3.5 |
| September | 10 | 3.8 |
| October | 13 | 3.3 |
| November | 14 | 3.0 |
| December | 18 | 3.2 |
Cities with about as many rainy days
- Rochester, New York: about 168 wet days a year
- Erie, Pennsylvania: about 167 wet days a year
- Buffalo, New York: about 166 wet days a year
Source: NOAA daily precipitation records for the Youngstown 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.