Which country in North America has the most rain and snow?

Panama has the most rain and snow in North America: 2,928 mm a year (2022). Next come Costa Rica (2,926 mm a year) and Grenada (2,350 mm a year).

Which country in North America has the least rain and snow?

Canada, with 537 mm a year (2022).

What is the typical precipitation of a country in North America?

The median of the 23 countries in North America is 1,705 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 North America by precipitation

Average rain and snow in a year over the whole country, in millimetres — a long-term average, not one year’s weather. 23 countries in North America, highest first. World Bank, 2022

See it on the map

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Highest

2,928

Panama

Median country

1,705

half above, half below

Lowest

537

Canada

Countries in North America by precipitation, World Bank, 2022
#	Country	mm a year	Region
1	Panama	2,928	Central America
2	Costa Rica	2,926	Central America
3	Grenada	2,350	Caribbean
4	Saint Lucia	2,301	Caribbean
5	Nicaragua	2,280	Central America
6	Trinidad and Tobago	2,200	Caribbean
7	Dominica	2,083	Caribbean
8	Jamaica	2,051	Caribbean
9	Guatemala	1,996	Central America
10	Honduras	1,976	Central America
11	El Salvador	1,784	Central America
12	Belize	1,705	Central America
13	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1,583	Caribbean
14	Haiti	1,440	Caribbean
15	Saint Kitts and Nevis	1,427	Caribbean
16	Barbados	1,422	Caribbean
17	Dominican Republic	1,410	Caribbean
18	Cuba	1,335	Caribbean
19	Bahamas	1,292	Caribbean
20	Antigua and Barbuda	1,030	Caribbean
21	Mexico	758	Central America
22	United States	715	Northern America
23	Canada	537	Northern America

Territories and other places

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

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

Questions

Which country in North America has the most rain and snow?: Panama has the most rain and snow in North America: 2,928 mm a year (2022). Next come Costa Rica (2,926 mm a year) and Grenada (2,350 mm a year).
Which country in North America has the least rain and snow?: Canada, with 537 mm a year (2022).
What is the typical precipitation of a country in North America?: The median of the 23 countries in North America is 1,705 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.