The rainiest and driest cities in the world

How many days a year it rains in the world's cities, from ten-year climate normals. Wettest: Cali.

Each city's average wet days and total rainfall are summed across its twelve monthly normals. We show at most two cities per country, so each list spans the world rather than one monsoon belt or one desert. Part of our wider best time to visit study.

The rainiest cities

#	City	Rain days / year	Annual rainfall
1	CaliColombia	303	3111 mm
2	SingaporeSingapore	293	2509 mm
3	JakartaIndonesia	276	2377 mm
4	BogorIndonesia	271	2605 mm
5	DavaoPhilippines	265	2801 mm
6	Benin CityNigeria	232	1753 mm
7	Pointe-NoireRepublic of the Congo	224	1993 mm
8	Bien HoaVietnam	221	2431 mm
9	LagosNigeria	219	1294 mm
10	TaguigPhilippines	213	2170 mm
11	ReykjavikIceland	202	1548 mm
12	BarranquillaColombia	194	1406 mm
13	BangkokThailand	192	1561 mm
14	Hong KongHong Kong	186	2301 mm
15	MacauMacao	185	2072 mm
16	CamayenneGuinea	182	3168 mm
17	Guatemala CityGuatemala	179	1342 mm
18	WillemstadCuracao	175	690 mm
19	EdinburghUnited Kingdom	168	946 mm
20	DublinIreland	163	953 mm
21	VancouverCanada	162	1829 mm
22	MunichGermany	160	1065 mm
23	GuarulhosBrazil	158	1311 mm
24	AmsterdamThe Netherlands	158	917 mm
25	Saint PetersburgRussia	157	765 mm
26	UtrechtThe Netherlands	156	882 mm
27	HangzhouChina	152	1597 mm
28	AntwerpBelgium	148	828 mm
29	FukuokaJapan	147	1814 mm
30	Mexico CityMexico	147	1145 mm

The driest cities

#	City	Rain days / year	Annual rainfall
1	Shubra al KhaymahEgypt	8	33 mm
2	DubaiUnited Arab Emirates	11	94 mm
3	DammamSaudi Arabia	14	96 mm
4	AdenYemen	25	117 mm
5	BaghdadIraq	27	180 mm
6	MarrakeshMorocco	36	209 mm
7	AshgabatTurkmenistan	45	241 mm
8	TehranIran	50	280 mm
9	Al Mawsil al JadidahIraq	52	367 mm
10	JerusalemIsrael	53	280 mm
11	KabulAfghanistan	55	336 mm
12	AthensGreece	64	508 mm
13	MadridSpain	76	505 mm
14	AhmedabadIndia	77	1068 mm
15	OdesaUkraine	79	478 mm
16	LisbonPortugal	79	605 mm
17	NiceFrance	79	799 mm
18	Cape TownSouth Africa	80	626 mm
19	GibraltarGibraltar	80	667 mm
20	MonacoMonaco	83	773 mm
21	BarcelonaSpain	86	676 mm
22	Xi'anChina	86	690 mm
23	MatolaMozambique	95	761 mm
24	HarareZimbabwe	96	751 mm
25	PyongyangNorth Korea	98	1245 mm
26	Goyang-siSouth Korea	100	1294 mm
27	IstanbulTurkey	101	718 mm
28	BudapestHungary	108	673 mm
29	RomeItaly	108	899 mm
30	SplitCroatia	111	1343 mm

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