List of countries by average annual precipitation

Countries by average annual precipitation. Some parts of a country can be much wetter than others, so it is not an accurate depiction of the wettest and driest places on earth.

This is a list of countries by average annual precipitation.

List

Per the World Bank (2017)[1][2]
Country mm/
year) 		Continent
1  Colombia 3,240 South America
2  São Tomé and Príncipe 3,200 Africa
2  Tuvalu 3,200 Oceania
3  Papua New Guinea 3,142 Oceania
4  Solomon Islands 3,028 Oceania
5  Panama 2,928 North America
6  Costa Rica 2,926 North America
7  Samoa 2,880 Oceania
8  Malaysia 2,875 Asia
9  Brunei 2,722 Asia
10  Indonesia 2,702 Asia
11  Bangladesh 2,666 Asia
12  Fiji 2,592 Oceania
13  Sierra Leone 2,526 Africa
14  Singapore 2,497 Asia
15  Liberia 2,391 Africa
16  Guyana 2,387 South America
17  Grenada[a] 2,350 North America
18  Philippines 2,348 Asia
19  Suriname 2,331 South America
20  Seychelles 2,330 Africa
21  Saint Lucia 2,301 North America
22  Nicaragua 2,280 North America
23  Ecuador 2,274 South America
24  Bhutan 2,200 Asia
24  Trinidad and Tobago 2,200 North America
26  Equatorial Guinea 2,156 Africa
27  Myanmar 2,091 Asia
28  Dominica 2,083 North America
29  Puerto Rico 2,054 North America
30  Jamaica 2,051 North America
31  Venezuela 2,044 South America
32  Mauritius 2,041 Africa
33  Vanuatu 2,000 Oceania
34  Guatemala 1,996 North America
35  Honduras 1,976 North America
36  Maldives 1,972 Asia
37  Iceland 1,940 Europe
38  Cambodia 1,904 Asia
39  Laos 1,834 Asia
40  Gabon 1,831 Africa
41  Vietnam 1,821 Asia
42  El Salvador 1,784 North America
43  Brazil 1,761 South America
44  Peru 1,738 South America
45  New Zealand 1,732 Oceania
46  Sri Lanka 1,712 Asia
47  Belize 1,705 North America
48  Japan 1,668 Asia
49  Guinea 1,651 Africa
50  Congo 1,646 Africa
51  Thailand 1,622 Asia
52  Cameroon 1,604 Africa
53  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1,583 North America
54  Guinea-Bissau 1,577 Africa
55  DR Congo 1,543 Africa
56   Switzerland 1,537 Europe
57  Chile 1,522 South America
58  Madagascar 1,513 Africa
59  East Timor 1,500 Asia
60    Nepal 1,500 Asia
61  Albania 1,485 Europe
62  Haiti 1,440 North America
63  Saint Kitts and Nevis 1,427 North America
64  Barbados 1,422 North America
65  Norway 1,414 Europe
66  Dominican Republic 1,410 North America
67  Ivory Coast 1,348 Africa
68  Central African Republic 1,343 Africa
69  Cuba 1,335 North America
70  Uruguay 1,300 South America
71  Bahamas 1,292 North America
72  Burundi 1,274 Africa
72  South Korea 1,274 Asia
74  United Kingdom 1,220 Europe
75  Rwanda 1,212 Africa
76  Ghana 1,187 Africa
77  Malawi 1,181 Africa
78  Uganda 1,180 Africa
79  Togo 1,168 Africa
80  Slovenia 1,162 Europe
81  Nigeria 1,150 Africa
82  Bolivia 1,146 South America
83  Paraguay 1,130 South America
84  Ireland 1,118 Europe
85  Croatia 1,113 Europe
86  Austria 1,110 Europe
87  India 1,083 Asia
88  Tanzania 1,071 Africa
89  North Korea 1,054 Asia
90  Benin 1,039 Africa
91  Mozambique 1,032 Africa
92  Antigua and Barbuda 1,030 North America
93  Bosnia and Herzegovina 1,028 Europe
94  Georgia 1,026 Asia
95  Zambia 1,020 Africa
96  Angola 1,010 Africa
97  Luxembourg 934 Europe
98  Comoros 900 Africa
99  South Sudan 900 Africa
100  France 867 Europe
101  Portugal 854 Europe
102  Ethiopia 848 Africa
103  Belgium 847 Europe
104  Gambia 836 Africa
105  Italy 832 Europe
106  Slovakia 824 Europe
107  Eswatini 788 Africa
107  Lesotho 788 Africa
109  Netherlands 778 Europe
110  Mexico 758 North America
111  Burkina Faso 748 Africa
112  United States 715 North America
113  Denmark 703 Europe
114  Germany 700 Europe
115  Tajikistan 691 Asia
116  Senegal 686 Africa
117  Czech Republic 677 Europe
118  Latvia 667 Europe
119  Lebanon 661 Asia
120  Zimbabwe 657 Africa
121  Lithuania 656 Europe
122  Greece 652 Europe
123  China 645 Asia
124  Romania 637 Europe
125  Spain 636 Europe
126  Kenya 630 Africa
127  Estonia 626 Europe
128  Sweden 624 Europe
129  North Macedonia 619 Europe
130  Belarus 618 Europe
131  Bulgaria 608 Europe
132  Poland 600 Europe
133  Turkey 593 Europe-Asia
134  Argentina 591 South America
135  Hungary 589 Europe
136  Ukraine 565 Europe
137  Armenia 562 Asia
138  Malta 560 Europe
139  Canada 537 North America
140  Finland 536 Europe
141  Australia 534 Oceania
142  Kyrgyzstan 533 Asia
143  Pakistan 524 Asia
144  Cyprus 498 Asia
145  South Africa 495 Africa
146  Russia 460 Europe-Asia
147  Moldova 450 Europe
148  Azerbaijan 447 Asia
149  Israel 435 Asia
150  Botswana 416 Africa
151  Eritrea 384 Africa
152  Morocco 346 Africa
153  Afghanistan 327 Asia
154  Chad 322 Africa
155  Namibia 285 Africa
156  Mali 282 Africa
156  Somalia 282 Africa
158  Syria 252 Asia
159  Kazakhstan 250 Asia
159  Sudan 250 Africa
161  Mongolia 241 Asia
162  Cape Verde 228 Africa
162  Iran 228 Asia
164  Djibouti 220 Africa
165  Iraq 216 Asia
166  Tunisia 207 Africa
167  Uzbekistan 206 Asia
168  Yemen 167 Asia
169  Turkmenistan 161 Asia
170  Niger 151 Africa
171  Oman 125 Asia
172  Kuwait 121 Asia
173  Jordan 111 Asia
174  Mauritania 92 Africa
175  Algeria 89 Africa
176  Bahrain 83 Asia
177  United Arab Emirates 78 Asia
178  Qatar 74 Asia
179  Saudi Arabia 59 Asia
180  Libya 56 Africa
181  Egypt 18 Africa

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Grenada's latest measurement was in 2014.

References

  1. ^ "Average precipitation in depth (mm per year) | Data". data.worldbank.org.
  2. ^ "The Top 10 Countries With The Most Rainfall In The World". IMP. 2021-11-01. Retrieved 2022-06-22.