Today
Has it rained enough in San Antonio?
Rain soaked in today, and the ground has taken it.
San Antonio has had 75.9mm of rain in the last 30 days. A normal October here brings 87.2mm, so the ground is roughly where it should be for the time of year.
Rain reaching the roots · 14 days
17 OctToday
Thirty years
Rain in San Antonio through a normal year
Across a normal year San Antonio gets about 858.3mm of rain, most of it in May (111.6mm) and least in December (50mm).
A normal October in San Antonio has rain on 11 days. Only 7 of them bring enough to reach a root.
That makes San Antonio one of the drier places this site covers in the United States in October — 18th 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.