Louisiana Is the Wettest of Any State, Going by Its Five Largest Cities (2026)

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Louisiana is the wettest of the 51 states and territories we rank, going by its five largest cities, with 59.2 inches of rain a year (NOAA, 1991-2020). Mississippi is next, with 56.7 inches of rain a year.

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

59.2 inLouisiana leads on the list, the highest reading of 51 states and territories

life in louisiana, living in louisiana, moving to louisiana — **Louisiana**, No. 1 of 51.

The top five states inches of rain a year

No. 1Louisiana59.2 ininches of rain a year
No. 2Mississippi56.7 ininches of rain a year
No. 3Alabama55.8 ininches of rain a year
No. 4Florida54.5 ininches of rain a year
No. 5Tennessee52.2 ininches of rain a year

Wettest States on the map

Driest cities and states by annual rainfall, states hover for the numbers, click for every one

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Inches of rain and melted snow a year, from NOAA's 1991 to 2020 climate normals.

Wettest States, all 51

The full ranking inches of rain a year

	Place	inches of rain a year
1	Louisiana	59.2 in
2	Mississippi	56.7 in
3	Alabama	55.8 in
4	Florida	54.5 in
5	Tennessee	52.2 in
6	South Carolina	49.1 in
7	New York	48.7 in
8	Kentucky	48.6 in
9	Georgia	48.4 in
10	Arkansas	48.2 in
11	Maine	47.7 in
12	Rhode Island	47.5 in
13	Virginia	47.3 in
14	New Jersey	46.5 in
15	Connecticut	45.1 in
16	Delaware	44.8 in
17	North Carolina	44.5 in
18	Massachusetts	44.3 in
18	Pennsylvania	44.3 in
20	West Virginia	43.8 in
21	Maryland	43.5 in
22	Indiana	42.7 in
23	New Hampshire	41.5 in
24	Missouri	41 in
25	Texas	40.6 in
26	Ohio	40.4 in
27	Oregon	38.2 in
28	Vermont	37.9 in
29	Oklahoma	37.8 in
30	Illinois	37.2 in
31	the US Virgin Islands	37 in
32	Kansas	36.3 in
33	Washington	35.6 in
34	Iowa	35.3 in
35	Wisconsin	34.5 in
36	Michigan	34.3 in
37	Minnesota	31.2 in
38	Nebraska	30.6 in
39	South Dakota	24.9 in
40	North Dakota	21.6 in
41	Alaska	20.4 in
42	Hawaii	16.4 in
43	Colorado	15 in
44	Utah	14.8 in
45	Montana	14 in
46	California	13.9 in
47	Wyoming	12.6 in
48	Idaho	11.3 in
49	New Mexico	9.3 in
50	Arizona	8.6 in
51	Nevada	4.8 in

Sources and method

NOAA 1991 to 2020 monthly climate normals · 1991-2020

How we got this. We add up NOAA's twelve monthly precipitation normals, 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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