Cities with the Fewest Rainy Days, Las Vegas, Nevada Leads (2026)

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Days a year with measurable rain or snow, from NOAA's 1991-2020 climate normals; fewest first.

By The Honest Local · 107 cities · every value links to its public source

23 daysLas Vegas, Nevada leads with the lowest rainy days a year of 107 big cities

The top five cities rainy days a year

No. 1Las Vegas, Nevada23 daysrainy days a year
No. 2Phoenix, Arizona33 daysrainy days a year
No. 3Los Angeles, California34 daysrainy days a year
No. 4Riverside, California35 daysrainy days a year
No. 5Bakersfield, California38 daysrainy days a year

Cities with the Fewest Rainy Days on the map

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Days a year with measurable rain or snow, from NOAA's 1991-2020 climate normals; fewest first.

Cities with the Fewest Rainy Days, all 107

The full ranking rainy days a year

	Place	rainy days a year
1	Las Vegas, Nevadabig city	23 days
2	Phoenix, Arizonabig city	33 days
3	Los Angeles, Californiabig city	34 days
4	Riverside, Californiabig city	35 days
5	Bakersfield, Californiabig city	38 days
6	San Diego, Californiabig city	40 days
7	Oxnard, California	44 days
8	Fresno, Californiabig city	47 days
9	Tucson, Arizonabig city	47 days
10	El Paso, Texasbig city	48 days
11	Reno, Nevadabig city	51 days
12	Albuquerque, New Mexicobig city	56 days
13	Stockton, Californiabig city	57 days
14	San Jose, Californiabig city	59 days
15	Sacramento, Californiabig city	61 days
16	McAllen, Texas	62 days
17	San Francisco, Californiabig city	71 days
18	San Antonio, Texasbig city	72 days
19	Dallas, Texasbig city	82 days
20	Oklahoma City, Oklahomabig city	83 days
21	Denver, Coloradobig city	84 days
22	Austin, Texasbig city	86 days
23	Ogden, Utah	86 days
24	Kansas City, Missouribig city	86 days
25	Wichita, Kansasbig city	87 days
26	Colorado Springs, Coloradobig city	87 days
27	Honolulu, Hawaiibig city	89 days
28	Boise, Idaho	89 days
29	Provo, Utah	92 days
30	Salt Lake City, Utah	92 days
31	Tulsa, Oklahomabig city	94 days
32	Charleston, South Carolina	102 days
33	Omaha, Nebraskabig city	103 days
34	Little Rock, Arkansas	106 days
35	Houston, Texasbig city	107 days
36	Savannah, Georgia	108 days
37	Tampa, Floridabig city	108 days
38	Jackson, Mississippi	109 days
39	Augusta, Georgia	109 days
40	Columbia, South Carolina	111 days
41	Memphis, Tennesseebig city	111 days
42	Miami, Floridabig city	112 days
43	Charlotte, NCbig city	112 days
44	Sarasota, Florida	113 days
45	Des Moines, Iowa	113 days
46	Fayetteville, Arkansas	113 days
47	Baton Rouge, Louisiana	114 days
48	New Orleans, Louisianabig city	115 days
49	Cape Coral, Florida	116 days
50	Greensboro, North Carolinabig city	116 days
51	St. Louis, Missouribig city	117 days
52	Durham, North Carolinabig city	118 days
53	Huntsville, AL	118 days
54	Raleigh, North Carolinabig city	118 days
55	Washington DC, Washington, DCbig city	118 days
56	Birmingham, Alabama	118 days
57	Richmond, Virginia	119 days
58	Baltimore, Marylandbig city	119 days
59	Minneapolis, Minnesotabig city	119 days
60	Daytona Beach, Florida	119 days
61	Spokane, Washington	119 days
62	Melbourne, Florida	120 days
63	Jacksonville, Floridabig city	120 days
64	Jacksonville, Floridabig city	120 days
65	Philadelphia, Pennsylvaniabig city	121 days
66	Greenville, SC	121 days
67	Chicago, Illinoisbig city	121 days
68	Virginia Beach, Virginiabig city	122 days
69	Chattanooga, Tennessee	123 days
70	Nashville, Tennesseebig city	123 days
71	Atlanta, Georgiabig city	123 days
72	New Haven, Connecticut	124 days
73	Bridgeport, Connecticut	125 days
74	Winston-Salem, North Carolinabig city	125 days
75	New York, New Yorkbig city	125 days
76	Detroit, Michiganbig city	125 days
77	Milwaukee, Wisconsinbig city	126 days
78	Madison, Wisconsinbig city	126 days
79	Providence, Rhode Island	127 days
80	Toledo, Ohiobig city	127 days
81	Lakeland, Florida	128 days
82	Indianapolis, Indianabig city	128 days
83	Boston, Massachusettsbig city	128 days
84	Hartford, Connecticut	129 days
85	Knoxville, Tennessee	129 days
86	Allentown, Pennsylvania	129 days
87	Harrisburg, Pennsylvania	129 days
88	Orlando, Floridabig city	130 days
89	Asheville, North Carolina	130 days
90	Louisville, Kentuckybig city	131 days
91	Portland, Maine	131 days
92	Cincinnati, Ohiobig city	132 days
93	Poughkeepsie, New York	132 days
94	Akron, Ohio	133 days
95	Dayton, Ohio	134 days
96	Cleveland, Ohiobig city	138 days
97	Worcester, Massachusetts	138 days
98	Albany, New York	139 days
99	Columbus, Ohiobig city	141 days
100	Grand Rapids, Michigan	149 days
101	Seattle, Washingtonbig city	154 days
102	Portland, Oregonbig city	157 days
103	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvaniabig city	161 days
104	Vancouver, Washington	163 days
105	Buffalo, New Yorkbig city	166 days
106	Rochester, New York	168 days
107	Syracuse, New York	174 days

Sources and method

NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 climate normals, MLY-PRCP-AVGNDS-GE001HI (via tape_readings) · 1991-2020

How we got this. Days of rain come from tape_readings, which src/tape/rain.ts reads from NOAA NCEI's 1991-2020 monthly climate normals (days a month with at least 0.01 inch, summed to a year) at the nearest airport-network station that carries the field. A state is the population-weighted mean of its five largest cities' readings, never one proxy city. Cities and states each rank on their own list, fewest first. It refreshes static normals; re-run any time.

Rankings by The Honest Local from public data, one page per list, refreshed on each source’s own cycle. Places with no reading are left out rather than estimated. Every value on this page carries its source in the page’s structured data.

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