Today
Has it rained enough in Phoenix?
Rain soaked in today, and the ground has taken it.
Phoenix has had 114.5mm of rain in the last 30 days. That is well above the 20.6mm a normal October brings here, and closer to the wettest on record (142.4mm).
Rain reaching the roots · 14 days
17 OctToday
Reached the roots
Rain that did not
2 days of 14
Thirty years
Rain in Phoenix through a normal year
Across a normal year Phoenix gets about 236.8mm of rain, most of it in February (32mm) and least in June (2.2mm).
A normal October in Phoenix has rain on 3 days. Only 2 of them bring enough to reach a root.
That makes Phoenix one of the drier places this site covers in the United States in October — 27th 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.