What country has the most rain?

Brunei Darussalam is the top country by rainfall index in the world. As of 2018, rainfall index in Brunei Darussalam was 3,564 mm. The top 5 countries also includes Papua New Guinea, Malaysia, Solomon Islands, and Indonesia.
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What country rains all day?

Mawsynram and Cherrapunji are just 10 miles apart, but Mawsynram beats its competitor by a mere 4 inches of rainfall. Although it doesn't rain all day in Meghalaya, it does rain every day, Chapple told weather.com. The heavy rainfall is due to summer air currents that sweep over the steaming flood plains of Bangladesh.
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What country has the least rain?

The lowest recorded rainfall in the world occurred at Arica, a port city in northern Chile. An annual average, taken over a 43-year period, was only 0.5 mm (0.02 inch).
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Which is the wettest place in the world?

The quiet, sleepy, yet mesmerising village of Mawsynram trounced Cherrapunji to become the wettest place in the world. Mawsynram receives over 10,000 millimetres of rain in a year.
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What city Rains most?

These are the places with the highest number of annual rain days in the world. In Mawsynram, India, no one leaves the house without an umbrella. The city is known as the wettest place in the world, with an average of 467 inches of rain a year. That's almost 39 feet.
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What is the rainiest city in the US?

Mobile is the rainiest city in the United States. Mobile receives an average annual rainfall of 67 inches and has about 59 rainy days per year.
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The ten rainiest cities are:
  • Mobile, AL.
  • Pensacola, FL.
  • New Orleans, LA.
  • West Palm Beach, FL.
  • Lafayette, LA.
  • Baton Rouge, LA.
  • Miami, FL.
  • Port Arthur, TX.
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Where does it rain 217 days a year?

On average, there are 217 sunny days per year in Atlanta.

Precipitation is rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls to the ground.
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What country has the most snow?

Japan's Mountains, the World's Snowiest Place, Is Melting With Climate Change. This beech forest near Tokamachi, Japan, has seen more snowfall than most other places on Earth.
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What's the driest place on earth?

The Atacama is the driest place on earth, other than the poles. It receives less than 1 mm of precipitation each year, and some areas haven't seen a drop of rain in more than 500 years.
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What country has no snow?

Countries in the South Pacific like Vanuatu, Fiji and Tuvalu have never seen snow. Near the equator, most countries get very little snow unless they are home to mountains, which can have snowy peaks. Even some hot countries like Egypt get snow from time to time.
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Where is the coldest city in the world?

However, while Yakutsk is the coldest city, there are other, less-populous permanently inhabited places that are even more frigid. Oymyakon, a Russian settlement of around 500 people, reached a frosty minus 96.2 F (minus 71.2 C) in 1924. Somewhat surprisingly, Yakutsk and Oymyakon aren't that close to each other.
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What is the snowiest city on Earth?

Aomori City, Japan

What to do: Located on Honshu Island, Aomori City holds the title of snowiest city in the world, and winter is the best time to take advantage of seafood (like scallops) at the Furukawa Fish Market.
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Where does it not rain in the US?

Driest States in America

Nevada takes the lead as the least rainy state in the US, with only 9.5 inches (241 mm) of rain each year. The mountain states, including Wyoming and Montana, dominate the list of America's driest states year round.
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What part of US gets most rain?

The very wettest places far exceed that threshold. According to NOAA-NCDC data, the wettest place in the United States is Mt. Waialeale on Kauai in Hawaii, which gets approximately 460 inches (11,684 millimeters) of rain each year, making it one of the rainiest spots on earth.
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What US city gets the least rain?

Las Vegas, Nevada

Las Vegas is the driest city in the U.S. What might surprise you, though, is how little rainwater it truly gets — only an average of 4.2 inches per year. Las Vegas is a city with over 640,000 residents and a staggering 42 million tourists each year.
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Where does it rain everyday in the US?

Wettest Weather

Among the country's 51 largest urban populations, Buffalo and Rochester, New York most often have days when it's raining or snowing.
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Where in Europe does it rain the most?

One European city far outperforms the rest for the amount precipitation it receives. In Podgorica, Montenegro 1661 millimetres (65.4 inches) of water lands in an average year. That's 293 mm (11.5 inches) more than the next wettest major city, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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Who has more rain than Seattle?

You might be surprised: Seattle isn't the rainiest city in the US, and we'll explain why later on. The award for America's wettest city goes to Rochester and Buffalo, New York, both with 167 days of rain — almost half the year!
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Which country has no summer?

Norway: Situated in the Arctic Circle, Norway is called the Land of the Midnight Sun. For about a period of 76 days from May to late July, the sun never sets. The bright sunlight engulfs the entire region for about 20 hours a day.
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Does it snow in Dubai?

Dubai rarely experiences snow, well, except if we are talking of artificial snows. It, however, receives a heavy shower of hailstones during the winter months. The Jumeirah and Sharjah are the areas frequently pelted by the hailstones.
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Does it snow in Africa?

Snow is an almost annual occurrence on some of the mountains of South Africa, including those of the Cedarberg and around Ceres in the South-Western Cape, and on the Drakensberg in Natal and Lesotho.
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What's the most rain in one day?

The biggest rainfall in a day occurred with the passage of Cyclone Denise in Foc-Foc, La Réunion, an island in the southern Indian Ocean. Some 1.825 meters (71.8 inches) of rain fell over 24 hours, from January 7 to 8, 1966.
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