Today
Has it rained enough in Miami?
Rain soaked in today, and the ground has taken it.
Miami has had 212.2mm of rain in the last 30 days. That is well above the 120.5mm a normal October brings here, and closer to the wettest on record (299.4mm).
Rain reaching the roots · 14 days
17 OctToday
Reached the roots
Rain that did not
one day of 14
Thirty years
Rain in Miami through a normal year
Across a normal year Miami gets about 1158.2mm of rain, most of it in June (176.8mm) and least in February (43.8mm).
A normal October in Miami has rain on 20 days. Only 12 of them bring enough to reach a root.
That makes Miami one of the wetter places this site covers in the United States in October — 2nd of 30, against Seattle at the wet end (131.5mm) and Las Vegas at the dry end (8.4mm).
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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.