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

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Las Vegas, Nevada has the fewest rainy days of the 106 US cities we rank, with 26 rainy days a year (NOAA, 1991-2020). Phoenix, Arizona is next, with 33 rainy days a year.

By The Honest Local · 106 cities · every value links to its public source

26 daysLas Vegas, Nevada leads on the list, the lowest reading of 106 cities

The top five cities rainy days a year

No. 1Las Vegas, Nevada26 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

Fewest rainy days by city and state, cities hover for the numbers, click for every one

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Days a year with measurable rain or snow, from NOAA's 1991 to 2020 climate normals.

Cities with the Fewest Rainy Days, all 106

The full ranking rainy days a year

	Place	rainy days a year
1	Las Vegas, Nevadabig city	26 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	Dallas, Texasbig city	79 days
19	Denver, Coloradobig city	80 days
20	San Antonio, Texasbig city	81 days
21	Oklahoma City, Oklahomabig city	83 days
22	Austin, Texasbig city	86 days
23	Ogden, Utah	86 days
24	Wichita, Kansasbig city	87 days
25	Colorado Springs, Coloradobig city	87 days
26	Boise, Idaho	89 days
26	Honolulu, Hawaiibig city	89 days
28	Provo, Utah	92 days
28	Salt Lake City, Utah	92 days
30	Tulsa, Oklahomabig city	94 days
31	Omaha, Nebraskabig city	103 days
32	Kansas City, Missouribig city	104 days
33	Houston, Texasbig city	104 days
34	Little Rock, Arkansas	106 days
35	Augusta, Georgia	107 days
36	Savannah, Georgia	108 days
37	Tampa, Floridabig city	108 days
38	Jackson, Mississippi	109 days
39	Columbia, South Carolina	109 days
40	Memphis, Tennesseebig city	111 days
41	Charlotte, North Carolinabig city	112 days
42	Sarasota, Florida	113 days
43	Spokane, Washington	113 days
44	Des Moines, Iowa	113 days
45	Fayetteville, Arkansas	113 days
46	Charleston, South Carolina	114 days
47	St. Louis, Missouribig city	114 days
48	Jacksonville, Floridabig city	114 days
49	Baton Rouge, Louisiana	114 days
50	New Orleans, Louisianabig city	115 days
51	Cape Coral, Florida	116 days
52	Greensboro, North Carolinabig city	116 days
53	Atlanta, Georgiabig city	116 days
54	Greenville, South Carolina	117 days
55	Durham, North Carolinabig city	118 days
55	Huntsville, Alabama	118 days
55	Raleigh, North Carolinabig city	118 days
58	Washington, DCbig city	118 days
59	Birmingham, Alabama	118 days
60	Virginia Beach, Virginiabig city	118 days
61	Richmond, Virginia	119 days
62	Minneapolis, Minnesotabig city	119 days
63	Daytona Beach, Florida	119 days
64	Melbourne, Florida	120 days
65	Philadelphia, Pennsylvaniabig city	121 days
66	Orlando, Floridabig city	121 days
67	Baltimore, Marylandbig city	121 days
68	Chattanooga, Tennessee	123 days
69	Nashville, Tennesseebig city	123 days
70	New Haven, Connecticut	124 days
71	Louisville, Kentuckybig city	125 days
72	Bridgeport, Connecticut	125 days
73	Winston-Salem, North Carolinabig city	125 days
74	New York, New Yorkbig city	125 days
75	Milwaukee, Wisconsinbig city	126 days
76	Chicago, Illinoisbig city	126 days
77	Madison, Wisconsinbig city	126 days
78	Providence, Rhode Island	127 days
79	Lakeland, Florida	128 days
80	Indianapolis, Indianabig city	128 days
81	Boston, Massachusettsbig city	128 days
82	Knoxville, Tennessee	129 days
83	Allentown, Pennsylvania	129 days
84	Harrisburg, Pennsylvania	129 days
85	Asheville, North Carolina	130 days
86	Hartford, Connecticut	130 days
87	Portland, Maine	131 days
88	Poughkeepsie, New York	132 days
89	Akron, Ohio	133 days
90	Toledo, Ohiobig city	133 days
91	Dayton, Ohio	134 days
92	Cincinnati, Ohiobig city	136 days
93	Detroit, Michiganbig city	136 days
94	Worcester, Massachusetts	138 days
95	Albany, New York	139 days
96	Columbus, Ohiobig city	141 days
97	Miami, Floridabig city	141 days
98	Grand Rapids, Michigan	149 days
99	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvaniabig city	154 days
100	Seattle, Washingtonbig city	156 days
101	Portland, Oregonbig city	157 days
102	Cleveland, Ohiobig city	159 days
103	Vancouver, Washington	163 days
104	Buffalo, New Yorkbig city	166 days
105	Rochester, New York	168 days
106	Syracuse, New York	174 days

Sources and method

NOAA 1991 to 2020 monthly climate normals · 1991-2020

How we got this. We add up NOAA's twelve monthly normals for days with at least a hundredth of an inch of rain or melted snow, 1991 to 2020, at each city's nearest airport station that reports them. A state is the population-weighted mean of its five largest cities, not NOAA's statewide figure, so it reads where most people live. Cities and states rank on their own lists. It refreshes when NOAA reissues its climate normals.

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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