Nevada Has the Fewest Rainy Days of Any State, Going by Its Five Largest Cities (2026)

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Nevada has the fewest rainy days of the 51 states and territories we rank, going by its five largest cities, with 30 rainy days a year (NOAA, 1991-2020). Arizona is next, with 36 rainy days a year.

By The Honest Local · 51 states · every value links to its public source

30 daysNevada leads on the list, the lowest reading of 51 states and territories

The top five states rainy days a year

No. 1Nevada30 daysrainy days a year
No. 2Arizona36 daysrainy days a year
No. 3California47 daysrainy days a year
No. 4New Mexico56 daysrainy days a year
No. 5Colorado84 daysrainy days a year

States with the Fewest Rainy Days on the map

Fewest rainy days by city and state, states 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.

States with the Fewest Rainy Days, all 51

The full ranking rainy days a year

	Place	rainy days a year
1	Nevada	30 days
2	Arizona	36 days
3	California	47 days
4	New Mexico	56 days
5	Colorado	84 days
6	Oklahoma	87 days
7	Utah	88 days
8	Texas	89 days
9	Idaho	89 days
10	Hawaii	89 days
11	Kansas	93 days
11	Wyoming	93 days
13	Nebraska	99 days
14	South Dakota	102 days
15	North Dakota	103 days
16	Montana	106 days
17	Arkansas	107 days
18	Missouri	108 days
19	Louisiana	111 days
20	Georgia	111 days
21	Mississippi	113 days
22	Iowa	114 days
23	South Carolina	114 days
24	Minnesota	116 days
25	North Carolina	116 days
26	Alabama	118 days
27	Florida	119 days
28	Virginia	119 days
29	Tennessee	120 days
30	Delaware	121 days
31	Maryland	121 days
32	Alaska	122 days
33	New Jersey	124 days
34	Illinois	125 days
35	Wisconsin	126 days
36	Connecticut	127 days
37	Rhode Island	127 days
38	New York	128 days
39	Indiana	130 days
40	Maine	131 days
41	Kentucky	131 days
42	Massachusetts	131 days
43	New Hampshire	132 days
44	Pennsylvania	135 days
45	Michigan	137 days
46	Ohio	141 days
47	West Virginia	147 days
48	Washington	151 days
49	Oregon	154 days
50	Vermont	157 days
51	the US Virgin Islands	173 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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