Today
Has it rained enough in Ghent?
Rain soaked properly in 8 days ago, and the ground is still holding some of it.
Ghent has had 56.6mm of rain in the last 30 days. A normal September here brings 56.2mm, 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
4 days of 14
Thirty years
Rain in Ghent through a normal year
Across a normal year Ghent gets about 765.9mm of rain, most of it in August (76.7mm) and least in April (48.7mm).
A normal September in Ghent has rain on 15 days. Only 9 of them bring enough to reach a root.
That makes Ghent one of the drier places this site covers in Europe in September — 81st 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 basketsWorth checking by hand even so — a pot in the sun can dry out in a wet week, because there is so little soil to hold anything.
- Beds and bordersNothing needed. Watering soil that is already wet does more harm than good.
- New plantingsAnything planted within the last month is the exception; its roots have not spread far enough to find water on their own.