Today
Has it rained enough in Seattle?
Rain soaked in today, and the ground has taken it.
Seattle has had 30.5mm of rain in the last 30 days. A normal October here brings 131.5mm, so that is about 23% of what the ground usually gets — and the driest October in 30 years was 24.6mm.
Rain reaching the roots · 14 days
17 OctToday
Reached the roots
Rain that did not
3 days of 14
Thirty years
Rain in Seattle through a normal year
Across a normal year Seattle gets about 1288.4mm of rain, most of it in November (196.2mm) and least in July (21.6mm).
A normal October in Seattle has rain on 16 days. Only 13 of them bring enough to reach a root.
That makes Seattle the wettest place this site covers in the United States in October — 131.5mm against Las Vegas's 8.4mm at the other end.
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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.