Minnesota Annual Rainfall see below for individual cities 


 

Minnesota city precipitation totals

City

Avg Annual Precip

Avg Snow Annual

 Avg. days of Precip
Duluth 31.00 81.3 134
International Falls 23.93 65.4 131
Minneapolis-St Paul 29.41 49.7 115
Rochester 31.40 48.4 118
St Cloud 27.13 44.4 109
State Average - 27.44 inches, 37th wettest in U.S. 

Minnesota Precipitation Records 

  • Driest location ranked by least annual average precipitation: Karlstad, northwestern Minnesota, 18.56"
  • Wettest location ranked by highest annual average precipitation: Caledonia, southeastern Minnesota, 34.99"
  • Snowiest location ranked by highest annual average snowfall: Duluth, northern Minnesota,  83.3"
  • State precipitation record for 24 hours - Hokah, southeastern Minnesota, 8/18-19/2007, 15.10" 
  • State precipitation record for 1 year - St, Francis, east-central Minnesota, 1991, 52.52"
  • State snowfall record for 24 hours -  Wolf Ridge, northeast Minnesota, 1/6-7/1994, 36.0" 
  • State snow record for 1 season - Pigeon River Bridge, northern Minnesota, 1936-1937, 147.5"
  • On January 21, 1982, the second of two major snowstorms to hit southern Minnesota came to an end. 
Minneapolis received 20 inches of snow in 24 hours to break the previous record of 17 inches in 24 hours 
established just a few days earlier. A record 38 inches of snow covered the ground following the two storms, 
with drifts ten feet high

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