Today
Has it rained enough in Antwerp?
Rain soaked properly in 8 days ago, and the ground is still holding some of it.
Antwerp has had 49.5mm of rain in the last 30 days. A normal September here brings 58.3mm, so the ground is roughly where it should be for the time of year.
Rain reaching the roots · 14 days
15 SeptToday
Reached the roots
Rain that did not
3 days of 14
Thirty years
Rain in Antwerp through a normal year
Across a normal year Antwerp gets about 787.8mm of rain, most of it in July (76.7mm) and least in April (46.4mm).
A normal September in Antwerp has rain on 15 days. Only 9 of them bring enough to reach a root.
That makes Antwerp one of the drier places this site covers in Europe in September — 71st of 116, against Salzburg at the wet end (166.3mm) and Athens at the dry end (19.4mm).
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Average rainfall by month, 1995–2024
What it means
What that means for what you grow
- Pots and hanging basketsWorst hit, and first to suffer. Very little soil, fully exposed, and nothing to fall back on — in this weather they can empty in a day.
- Salad and leafy vegShallow-rooted and quick to bolt once they run dry. First priority of anything in the ground.
- Beds and bordersA long soak that reaches the roots is worth more than a daily sprinkle, which only wets the surface and is gone by lunchtime.
- Established shrubs and treesFine as they are. They draw from far deeper than a dry spell reaches.