Louisiana Is the Wettest of Any State (2026)

Name: Driest cities and states by annual rainfall, The Honest Local
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Wettest States, read from the other end of our driest states list. Same readings, same sources, all 50 states.

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59.2 inLouisiana leads with the highest inches of rain a year of all 50 states

life in louisiana, living in louisiana, moving to louisiana — **Louisiana**, No. 1 highest of 50.

The top five states inches of rain a year

No. 1Louisiana59.2 ininches of rain a year
No. 2the US Virgin Islands57.2 ininches of rain a year
No. 3Mississippi56.7 ininches of rain a year
No. 4Alabama55.8 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 precipitation a year, from NOAA's 1991-2020 climate normals; driest first.

Wettest States, all 50

The full ranking inches of rain a year

	Place	inches of rain a year
1	Louisiana	59.2 in
2	the US Virgin Islands	57.2 in
3	Mississippi	56.7 in
4	Alabama	55.8 in
5	Tennessee	52.2 in
6	Florida	50.2 in
7	New York	48.7 in
8	Kentucky	48.5 in
9	Arkansas	48.2 in
10	Maine	47.7 in
11	Rhode Island	47.5 in
12	Georgia	47.4 in
13	New Jersey	46.5 in
14	Virginia	46.4 in
15	South Carolina	45.6 in
16	Delaware	44.8 in
17	North Carolina	44.5 in
18	Pennsylvania	44.5 in
19	Massachusetts	44.3 in
20	Connecticut	44.3 in
21	West Virginia	43.8 in
22	Maryland	42.7 in
23	Indiana	42.7 in
24	Texas	42.1 in
25	New Hampshire	41.5 in
26	Missouri	40.3 in
27	Ohio	38.4 in
28	Vermont	37.9 in
29	Oklahoma	37.8 in
30	Kansas	36.3 in
31	Iowa	35.3 in
32	Wisconsin	34.5 in
33	Washington	34.4 in
34	Illinois	34.4 in
35	Michigan	32 in
36	Minnesota	31.2 in
37	Nebraska	30.6 in
38	South Dakota	24.9 in
39	North Dakota	21.6 in
40	Alaska	20.4 in
41	Hawaii	16.4 in
42	Colorado	15.4 in
43	Utah	14.8 in
44	Montana	14 in
45	California	13.9 in
46	Wyoming	12.6 in
47	Idaho	11.3 in
48	New Mexico	9.3 in
49	Arizona	8.6 in
50	Nevada	4.8 in

Sources and method

NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 climate normals, MLY-PRCP-NORMAL (via tape_readings) · 1991-2020

How we got this. Annual rainfall comes from tape_readings, which src/tape/rain.ts reads from NOAA NCEI's 1991-2020 monthly climate normals (monthly precipitation 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. Cities and states each rank on their own list, driest 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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