Which country has the most rain and snow?

Colombia has the most rain and snow: 3,240 mm a year (2022). Next come São Tomé and Principe (3,200 mm a year) and Papua New Guinea (3,142 mm a year).

Which country has the least rain and snow?

Egypt, with 18 mm a year (2022).

What is the typical precipitation of a country?

The median of the 180 countries is 1,031 mm a year: half are above it, half below. The median, not the average, because a few countries at the top would drag an average far above almost everyone.

Where do the figures come from?

Average rain and snow in a year over the whole country, in millimetres — a long-term average, not one year’s weather. Source: World Bank, mostly 2022. Only independent states are ranked; territories are listed separately.

Countries by precipitation

Average rain and snow in a year over the whole country, in millimetres — a long-term average, not one year’s weather. 180 countries, highest first. World Bank, mostly 2022

See it on the map

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Highest

3,240

Colombia

Median country

1,031

half above, half below

Lowest

Egypt

Countries by precipitation, World Bank, mostly 2022
#	Country	mm a year	Year	Region
1	Colombia	3,240	2022	South America
2	São Tomé and Principe	3,200	2022	Middle Africa
3	Papua New Guinea	3,142	2022	Melanesia
4	Solomon Islands	3,028	2022	Melanesia
5	Panama	2,928	2022	Central America
6	Costa Rica	2,926	2022	Central America
7	Samoa	2,880	2022	Polynesia
8	Malaysia	2,875	2022	South-Eastern Asia
9	Brunei	2,722	2022	South-Eastern Asia
10	Indonesia	2,702	2022	South-Eastern Asia
11	Bangladesh	2,666	2022	Southern Asia
12	Fiji	2,592	2022	Melanesia
13	Sierra Leone	2,526	2022	Western Africa
14	Singapore	2,497	2022	South-Eastern Asia
15	Liberia	2,391	2022	Western Africa
16	Guyana	2,387	2022	South America
17	Grenada	2,350	2022	Caribbean
18	Philippines	2,348	2022	South-Eastern Asia
19	Suriname	2,331	2022	South America
20	Seychelles	2,330	2022	Eastern Africa
21	Saint Lucia	2,301	2022	Caribbean
22	Nicaragua	2,280	2022	Central America
23	Ecuador	2,274	2022	South America
=24	Bhutan	2,200	2022	Southern Asia
=24	Trinidad and Tobago	2,200	2022	Caribbean
26	Equatorial Guinea	2,156	2022	Middle Africa
27	Myanmar	2,091	2022	South-Eastern Asia
28	Dominica	2,083	2022	Caribbean
29	Jamaica	2,051	2022	Caribbean
30	Venezuela	2,044	2022	South America
31	Mauritius	2,041	2022	Eastern Africa
32	Vanuatu	2,000	2022	Melanesia
33	Guatemala	1,996	2022	Central America
34	Honduras	1,976	2022	Central America
35	Maldives	1,972	2022	Southern Asia
36	Iceland	1,940	2022	Northern Europe
37	Cambodia	1,904	2022	South-Eastern Asia
38	Laos	1,834	2022	South-Eastern Asia
39	Gabon	1,831	2022	Middle Africa
40	Vietnam	1,821	2022	South-Eastern Asia
41	El Salvador	1,784	2022	Central America
42	Brazil	1,761	2022	South America
43	Peru	1,738	2022	South America
44	New Zealand	1,732	2022	Australia and New Zealand
45	Sri Lanka	1,712	2022	Southern Asia
46	Belize	1,705	2022	Central America
47	Japan	1,668	2022	Eastern Asia
48	Guinea	1,651	2022	Western Africa
49	Congo	1,646	2022	Middle Africa
50	Thailand	1,622	2022	South-Eastern Asia
51	Cameroon	1,604	2022	Middle Africa
52	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1,583	2022	Caribbean
53	Guinea-Bissau	1,577	2022	Western Africa
54	DR Congo	1,543	2022	Middle Africa
55	Switzerland	1,537	2022	Western Europe
56	Chile	1,522	2022	South America
57	Madagascar	1,513	2022	Eastern Africa
=58	Nepal	1,500	2022	Southern Asia
=58	Timor-Leste	1,500	2022	South-Eastern Asia
60	Albania	1,485	2022	Southern Europe
61	Haiti	1,440	2022	Caribbean
62	Saint Kitts and Nevis	1,427	2022	Caribbean
63	Barbados	1,422	2022	Caribbean
64	Norway	1,414	2022	Northern Europe
65	Dominican Republic	1,410	2022	Caribbean
66	Côte d'Ivoire	1,348	2022	Western Africa
67	Central African Republic	1,343	2022	Middle Africa
68	Cuba	1,335	2022	Caribbean
69	Uruguay	1,300	2022	South America
70	Bahamas	1,292	2022	Caribbean
=71	Burundi	1,274	2022	Eastern Africa
=71	South Korea	1,274	2022	Eastern Asia
73	United Kingdom	1,220	2022	Northern Europe
74	Rwanda	1,212	2022	Eastern Africa
75	Ghana	1,187	2022	Western Africa
76	Malawi	1,181	2022	Eastern Africa
77	Uganda	1,180	2022	Eastern Africa
78	Togo	1,168	2022	Western Africa
79	Slovenia	1,162	2022	Southern Europe
80	Nigeria	1,150	2022	Western Africa
81	Bolivia	1,146	2022	South America
82	Paraguay	1,130	2022	South America
83	Ireland	1,118	2022	Northern Europe
84	Croatia	1,113	2022	Southern Europe
85	Austria	1,110	2022	Western Europe
86	India	1,083	2022	Southern Asia
87	Tanzania	1,071	2022	Eastern Africa
88	North Korea	1,054	2022	Eastern Asia
89	Benin	1,039	2022	Western Africa
90	Mozambique	1,032	2022	Eastern Africa
91	Antigua and Barbuda	1,030	2022	Caribbean
92	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1,028	2022	Southern Europe
93	Georgia	1,026	2022	Western Asia
94	Zambia	1,020	2022	Eastern Africa
95	Angola	1,010	2022	Middle Africa
96	Luxembourg	934	2022	Western Europe
=97	Comoros	900	2022	Eastern Africa
=97	South Sudan	900	2022	Eastern Africa
99	France	867	2022	Western Europe
100	Portugal	854	2022	Southern Europe
101	Ethiopia	848	2022	Eastern Africa
102	Belgium	847	2022	Western Europe
103	Gambia	836	2022	Western Africa
104	Italy	832	2022	Southern Europe
105	Slovakia	824	2022	Eastern Europe
=106	Eswatini	788	2022	Southern Africa
=106	Lesotho	788	2022	Southern Africa
108	Netherlands	778	2022	Western Europe
109	Mexico	758	2022	Central America
110	Burkina Faso	748	2022	Western Africa
111	United States	715	2022	Northern America
112	Denmark	703	2022	Northern Europe
113	Germany	700	2022	Western Europe
114	Tajikistan	691	2022	Central Asia
115	Senegal	686	2022	Western Africa
116	Czechia	677	2022	Eastern Europe
117	Latvia	667	2022	Northern Europe
118	Lebanon	661	2022	Western Asia
119	Zimbabwe	657	2022	Eastern Africa
120	Lithuania	656	2022	Northern Europe
121	Greece	652	2022	Southern Europe
122	China	645	2022	Eastern Asia
123	Romania	637	2022	Eastern Europe
124	Spain	636	2022	Southern Europe
125	Kenya	630	2022	Eastern Africa
126	Estonia	626	2022	Northern Europe
127	Sweden	624	2022	Northern Europe
128	North Macedonia	619	2022	Southern Europe
129	Belarus	618	2022	Eastern Europe
130	Bulgaria	608	2022	Eastern Europe
131	Poland	600	2022	Eastern Europe
132	Turkey	593	2022	Western Asia
133	Argentina	591	2022	South America
134	Hungary	589	2022	Eastern Europe
135	Ukraine	565	2022	Eastern Europe
136	Armenia	562	2022	Western Asia
137	Malta	560	2022	Southern Europe
138	Canada	537	2022	Northern America
139	Finland	536	2022	Northern Europe
140	Australia	534	2022	Australia and New Zealand
141	Kyrgyzstan	533	2022	Central Asia
142	Cyprus	498	2022	Western Asia
143	South Africa	495	2022	Southern Africa
144	Pakistan	494	2022	Southern Asia
145	Russia	460	2022	Eastern Europe
146	Moldova	450	2022	Eastern Europe
147	Azerbaijan	447	2022	Western Asia
148	Israel	435	2021	Western Asia
149	Botswana	416	2022	Southern Africa
150	Eritrea	384	2022	Eastern Africa
151	Morocco	346	2022	Northern Africa
152	Afghanistan	327	2022	Southern Asia
153	Chad	322	2022	Middle Africa
154	Namibia	285	2022	Southern Africa
=155	Mali	282	2022	Western Africa
=155	Somalia	282	2022	Eastern Africa
157	Syria	252	2022	Western Asia
=158	Kazakhstan	250	2022	Central Asia
=158	Sudan	250	2022	Northern Africa
160	Mongolia	241	2022	Eastern Asia
=161	Cabo Verde	228	2022	Western Africa
=161	Iran	228	2022	Southern Asia
163	Djibouti	220	2022	Eastern Africa
164	Iraq	216	2022	Western Asia
165	Tunisia	207	2022	Northern Africa
166	Uzbekistan	206	2022	Central Asia
167	Yemen	167	2022	Western Asia
168	Turkmenistan	161	2022	Central Asia
169	Niger	151	2022	Western Africa
170	Oman	125	2022	Western Asia
171	Kuwait	121	2022	Western Asia
172	Jordan	111	2022	Western Asia
173	Mauritania	92	2022	Western Africa
174	Algeria	89	2022	Northern Africa
175	Bahrain	83	2022	Western Asia
176	United Arab Emirates	78	2022	Western Asia
177	Qatar	74	2022	Western Asia
178	Saudi Arabia	59	2022	Western Asia
179	Libya	56	2022	Northern Africa
180	Egypt	18	2022	Northern Africa

No World Bank figure for 14 countries: Andorra, Kiribati, Liechtenstein, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Monaco, Montenegro, Nauru, Palau, San Marino, Serbia, Taiwan, Tonga, Vatican City.

Territories and other places

Not ranked: dependencies of the states above, places whose status is disputed, and Antarctica. Highest first.

Place	mm a year	Status
Puerto Rico	2,054	Territory of United States of America
Palestine	402	Status disputed

Questions

Which country has the most rain and snow?: Colombia has the most rain and snow: 3,240 mm a year (2022). Next come São Tomé and Principe (3,200 mm a year) and Papua New Guinea (3,142 mm a year).
Which country has the least rain and snow?: Egypt, with 18 mm a year (2022).
What is the typical precipitation of a country?: The median of the 180 countries is 1,031 mm a year: half are above it, half below. The median, not the average, because a few countries at the top would drag an average far above almost everyone.
Where do the figures come from?: Average rain and snow in a year over the whole country, in millimetres — a long-term average, not one year’s weather. Source: World Bank, mostly 2022. Only independent states are ranked; territories are listed separately.

Source: World Bank (CC BY 4.0). Figures more than 10 years older than the newest are left out rather than shown beside current ones. Countries sharing a value share a rank. All sources.