Average Yearly Precipitation for Wisconsin

The tables below give yearly averages for rainfall plus snowfall at cities, communities and other locations around Wisconsin.

Each place has a total for the amount of precipitation it usually receives in a year. There is also a count of the number of days with wet weather, when precipitation amounts to 0.01 inches (0.25 millimetres) or more.

The annual precipitation totals are averages based on weather data collected from 1991 to 2020 for the US National Centers for Environmental Information.

You can jump to a separate table for each region of the state: Eastern Wisconsin, Southwest Wisconsin, Northern Wisconsin and the Lake Superior Shore.

Eastern Wisconsin

Average yearly precipitation
Days	Place	Inches	Millimetres
123	Appleton	33.2	842
106	Crivitz, High Falls Flowage	32.1	815
109	Fond du Lac	31.5	799
126	Green Bay	31.6	803
120	Kenosha	37.6	955
129	Lake Geneva	37.0	939
104	Manitowoc	31.5	799
123	Marinette	33.1	840
126	Milwaukee	34.6	878
119	Oshkosh	33.3	846
120	Racine	37.0	939
125	Sheboygan	34.7	881
124	Sturgeon Bay	32.9	835
116	Washington Island	30.2	767
123	Watertown	37.3	946
128	Whitewater	36.2	920

Southwest Wisconsin

Annual averages for rainfall plus snowfall
Days	Place	Inches	Millimetres
119	Baraboo	38.9	988
119	Beaver Dam	36.3	921
108	Beloit	37.4	950
123	La Crosse	35.2	895
126	Madison	37.1	943
119	Platteville	40.0	1015
105	Prairie du Chien	37.7	959
111	Viroqua	38.0	965
111	Wisconsin Dells	37.5	952
112	Wisconsin Rapids	33.4	847

Northern Wisconsin

Average amount of rain and snow a year
Days	Place	Inches	Millimetres
112	Drummond	34.7	882
128	Eau Claire	33.0	838
120	Rest Lake, Manitowish Waters	32.3	819
131	Rhinelander	34.4	873
111	Rice Lake	31.4	798
96	St Croix Falls	30.5	774
125	Stevens Point	34.0	863
131	Wausau	33.9	861
111	Willow Reservoir	32.3	819

Lake Superior Shore

Average annual precipitation
Days	Place	Inches	Millimetres
123	Ashland	27.9	707
154	Bayfield	33.3	846
136	Hurley	37.4	949
120	Madeline Island	31.5	800
106	Superior	31.5	799

Average Annual Precipitation for Wisconsin

Eastern Wisconsin

Southwest Wisconsin

Northern Wisconsin

Lake Superior Shore

Reference

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