Which country in Africa has the most rain and snow?

São Tomé and Principe has the most rain and snow in Africa: 3,200 mm a year (2022). Next come Sierra Leone (2,526 mm a year) and Liberia (2,391 mm a year).

Which country in Africa has the least rain and snow?

Egypt, with 18 mm a year (2022).

What is the typical precipitation of a country in Africa?

The median of the 54 countries in Africa is 955 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, 2022. Only independent states are ranked; territories are listed separately. A country’s continent follows Natural Earth; the handful of island states it files under the open ocean are placed by their UN subregion.

Countries in Africa by precipitation

Average rain and snow in a year over the whole country, in millimetres — a long-term average, not one year’s weather. 54 countries in Africa, highest first. World Bank, 2022

See it on the map

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Highest

3,200

São Tomé and Principe

Median country

955

half above, half below

Lowest

Egypt

Countries in Africa by precipitation, World Bank, 2022
#	Country	mm a year	Region
1	São Tomé and Principe	3,200	Middle Africa
2	Sierra Leone	2,526	Western Africa
3	Liberia	2,391	Western Africa
4	Seychelles	2,330	Eastern Africa
5	Equatorial Guinea	2,156	Middle Africa
6	Mauritius	2,041	Eastern Africa
7	Gabon	1,831	Middle Africa
8	Guinea	1,651	Western Africa
9	Congo	1,646	Middle Africa
10	Cameroon	1,604	Middle Africa
11	Guinea-Bissau	1,577	Western Africa
12	DR Congo	1,543	Middle Africa
13	Madagascar	1,513	Eastern Africa
14	Côte d'Ivoire	1,348	Western Africa
15	Central African Republic	1,343	Middle Africa
16	Burundi	1,274	Eastern Africa
17	Rwanda	1,212	Eastern Africa
18	Ghana	1,187	Western Africa
19	Malawi	1,181	Eastern Africa
20	Uganda	1,180	Eastern Africa
21	Togo	1,168	Western Africa
22	Nigeria	1,150	Western Africa
23	Tanzania	1,071	Eastern Africa
24	Benin	1,039	Western Africa
25	Mozambique	1,032	Eastern Africa
26	Zambia	1,020	Eastern Africa
27	Angola	1,010	Middle Africa
=28	Comoros	900	Eastern Africa
=28	South Sudan	900	Eastern Africa
30	Ethiopia	848	Eastern Africa
31	Gambia	836	Western Africa
=32	Eswatini	788	Southern Africa
=32	Lesotho	788	Southern Africa
34	Burkina Faso	748	Western Africa
35	Senegal	686	Western Africa
36	Zimbabwe	657	Eastern Africa
37	Kenya	630	Eastern Africa
38	South Africa	495	Southern Africa
39	Botswana	416	Southern Africa
40	Eritrea	384	Eastern Africa
41	Morocco	346	Northern Africa
42	Chad	322	Middle Africa
43	Namibia	285	Southern Africa
=44	Mali	282	Western Africa
=44	Somalia	282	Eastern Africa
46	Sudan	250	Northern Africa
47	Cabo Verde	228	Western Africa
48	Djibouti	220	Eastern Africa
49	Tunisia	207	Northern Africa
50	Niger	151	Western Africa
51	Mauritania	92	Western Africa
52	Algeria	89	Northern Africa
53	Libya	56	Northern Africa
54	Egypt	18	Northern Africa

Questions

Which country in Africa has the most rain and snow?: São Tomé and Principe has the most rain and snow in Africa: 3,200 mm a year (2022). Next come Sierra Leone (2,526 mm a year) and Liberia (2,391 mm a year).
Which country in Africa has the least rain and snow?: Egypt, with 18 mm a year (2022).
What is the typical precipitation of a country in Africa?: The median of the 54 countries in Africa is 955 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, 2022. Only independent states are ranked; territories are listed separately. A country’s continent follows Natural Earth; the handful of island states it files under the open ocean are placed by their UN subregion.

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.