Kansas Annual Rainfall see below for individual cities 


 

Kansas city precipitation totals

City

Avg Annual Precip

Avg Snow Annual

 Avg. days of Precip
Concordia 28.43 21.9 90
Dodge City 22.35 19.9 78
Goodland 19.76 37.4 77
Topeka 35.64 20.4 97
Wichita 30.38 15.9 86
State Average - 28.92 inches, 34th wettest in U.S. 

Kansas Precipitation Records 

  • Driest location ranked by lowest annual precipitation: Big Bow, southwest Kansas, 14.60"
  • Wettest location ranked by highest annual precipitation: Pittsburg, southeast Kansas, 46.01"
  • Snowiest location ranked by highest annual snowfall: McDonald, northwest Kansas, 46.0"
  • State precipitation record for 24 hours - Pittsburg, southeast Kansas, 9/24-25/1993, 17.00"
  • State precipitation record for 1 year - Blaine, northeast Kansas, 1993, 68.55"
  • State snowfall record for 24 hours - Ft. Scott, southeast Kansas, 12/28-29/1954, 26.0"
  • State snowfall record for 1 season - McDonald, northwest Kansas, 1983-1984, 103.6"
  • In Topeka, Kansas, 70% of the annual precipitation falls from April through September
  • On March 24, 1912 Kansas City began to dig out from a storm produced 25 inches 
of snow in just 24 hours. The snowfall total was nearly twice that of any other storm on record 
in Kansas City before or since that time. A record 40 inches of snow fell during the 
month of March that year and the total for the winter season of 67 inches was also a record.

Precipitation data for other U.S. states
Data source: National Data Climatic Center