The US Virgin Islands Has the Most Rainy Days of Any State or Territory, Going by Its Five Largest Cities (2026)

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The US Virgin Islands has the most rainy days of the 51 states and territories we rank, going by its five largest cities, with 173 rainy days a year (NOAA, 1991-2020). Vermont is next, with 157 rainy days a year.

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

173 daysthe US Virgin Islands leads on the list, the highest reading of 51 states and territories

The top five states rainy days a year

No. 1the US Virgin Islands173 daysrainy days a year
No. 2Vermont157 daysrainy days a year
No. 3Oregon154 daysrainy days a year
No. 4Washington151 daysrainy days a year
No. 5West Virginia147 daysrainy days a year

Rainiest States 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.

Rainiest States, all 51

The full ranking rainy days a year

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