Florida Annual Rainfall see below for individual cities 


 

Florida city precipitation totals

City

Avg Annual Precip

Avg Snow Annual

Avg. # days of Precip
Apalachicola 56.51 0.0 105
Daytona Beach 49.29 0.0 115
Fort Myers 54.19 0.0 112
Gainesville 48.36 0.0 116
Jacksonville 52.34 0.0 116
Key West 38.94 0.0 109
Miami 58.53 0.0 131
Orlando 48.35 0.0 116
Pensacola 64.28 0.2 110
Tallahassee 63.21 0.0 115
Tampa 44.77 0.0 106
Vero Beach 51.93 0.0 126
West Palm Beach 61.39 0.0 133
State Average - 54.57 inches, 5th wettest in U.S.


Florida Precipitation Data

  • Driest location ranked by lowest annual average precipitation: Key West, southern Florida, 38.94"
  • Wettest location ranked by highest annual average precipitation: Pensacola, western Florida, 52.3"
  • Snowiest location ranked by highest annual average snowfall: Pensacola, western Florida, 0.2"
  • State precipitation record for 24 hours - Yankeetown, northwestern Florida, 9/5/1950, 38.7"
  • State precipitation record for 1 year - Pensacola, western Florida, 1879, 127.24"
  • State snow record for 24 hours - Milton Station, western Florida, 3/6/1954, 4.0"
  • Yankeetown, Florida recorded the second highest 24-hour rainfall total in U.S. history with 38.70 "
     on 9/5/1950, due to Hurricane Easy striking the area
  • Fort Myers, Florida experiences the most thunderstorms in the U.S. with an average of 89 annually.
  • Florida possesses 4 of the Top 10 wettest cities in the United States, ranked by average annual precipitation:
    Pensacola, Tallahassee, West Palm Beach and Miami
  • Of the Top 10 hottest cities in the nation, seven of them are in Florida: Key West, Miami, West Palm Beach, Ft Myers, 
    Orlando, Vero Beach and Tampa
  • Although Key West is the driest location in Florida with 38.84" of precipitation, this amount is still more than the wettest location 
    in South Dakota (29.85"), Nevada (30.60") and New Mexico (28.19")
Precipitation data for other U.S. states

Data source: National Data Climatic Center