Vermont Has the Most Rainy Days of Any State (2026)

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Rainiest States, read from the other end of our states with the fewest rainy days list. Same readings, same sources, all 50 states.

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157 daysVermont leads with the highest rainy days a year of all 50 states

The top five states rainy days a year

No. 1Vermont157 daysrainy days a year
No. 2Washington151 daysrainy days a year
No. 3West Virginia147 daysrainy days a year
No. 4Ohio136 daysrainy days a year
No. 5Pennsylvania136 daysrainy days a year

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

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The full ranking rainy days a year

	Place	rainy days a year
1	Vermont	157 days
2	Washington	151 days
3	West Virginia	147 days
4	Ohio	136 days
5	Pennsylvania	136 days
6	New Hampshire	132 days
7	Massachusetts	131 days
8	Michigan	131 days
9	Kentucky	131 days
10	Maine	131 days
11	Indiana	130 days
12	New York	128 days
13	Rhode Island	127 days
14	Connecticut	127 days
15	Wisconsin	126 days
16	New Jersey	124 days
17	Alaska	122 days
18	Illinois	121 days
19	Delaware	121 days
20	Tennessee	120 days
21	Virginia	120 days
22	Maryland	120 days
23	Alabama	118 days
24	North Carolina	116 days
25	Minnesota	116 days
26	Florida	115 days
27	Georgia	114 days
28	Iowa	114 days
29	Mississippi	113 days
30	the US Virgin Islands	112 days
31	Louisiana	111 days
32	South Carolina	109 days
33	Arkansas	107 days
34	Montana	106 days
35	North Dakota	103 days
36	South Dakota	102 days
37	Missouri	101 days
38	Nebraska	99 days
39	Wyoming	93 days
40	Kansas	93 days
41	Texas	90 days
42	Hawaii	89 days
43	Idaho	89 days
44	Utah	88 days
45	Oklahoma	87 days
46	Colorado	86 days
47	New Mexico	56 days
48	California	47 days
49	Arizona	36 days
50	Nevada	30 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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