Today
Has it rained enough in Amsterdam?
Rain soaked properly in 2 days ago, and the ground is still holding some of it.
Amsterdam has had 153.6mm of rain in the last 30 days. That is well above the 76.2mm a normal October brings here, and closer to the wettest on record (176.8mm).
Rain reaching the roots · 14 days
17 OctToday
Reached the roots
Rain that did not
3 days of 14
Thirty years
Rain in Amsterdam through a normal year
Across a normal year Amsterdam gets about 832.7mm of rain, most of it in July (86.6mm) and least in April (53.5mm).
A normal October in Amsterdam has rain on 17 days. Only 11 of them bring enough to reach a root.
That makes Amsterdam one of the wetter places this site covers in Europe in October — 55th of 116, against Vigo at the wet end (238.7mm) and Athens at the dry end (26.1mm).
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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.