Today
Has it rained enough in Braga?
Rain soaked properly in 9 days ago, and the ground is still holding some of it.
Braga has had 25.7mm of rain in the last 30 days. A normal October here brings 224.9mm, so that is about 11% of what the ground usually gets — and the driest October in 30 years was 8.6mm.
Rain reaching the roots · 14 days
17 OctToday
Reached the roots
Rain that did not
3 days of 14
Thirty years
Rain in Braga through a normal year
Across a normal year Braga gets about 1574mm of rain, most of it in October (224.9mm) and least in July (29.7mm).
A normal October in Braga has rain on 15 days. Only 12 of them bring enough to reach a root.
That makes Braga one of the wetter places this site covers in Europe in October — 2nd 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 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.