Average Annual Precipitation for Texas

The tables below give yearly averages for rainfall plus snowfall at cities, towns and parks in Texas.

Each place has a total for the amount of precipitation it usually receives in a year.

Most locations also have information on the number of days with wet weather. That includes the days when precipitation amounts to 0.01 inches (0.25 millimetres) or more.

The annual precipitation totals are averages based on weather data collected from 1981 to 2010 for the NOAA National Climatic Data Center.

You can jump to a separate table for each region of the state: North Central Texas, South Central Texas, East Texas, Gulf Coast and West Texas.

North Central Texas

Average yearly precipitation

Days	Place	Inches	Milli­metres
91	College Station	40.1	1018
81	Dallas	37.6	954
79	Denton	38.1	967
81	Fort Worth	37.8	960
73	Killeen	33.1	840
75	McKinney	42.3	1075
82	Waco	34.7	881
74	Wichita Falls	28.9	734

South Central Texas

Annual averages for rainfall plus snowfall

Days	Place	Inches	Milli­metres
88	Austin	34.2	870
75	Choke Canyon Lake Dam	26.4	670
60	Falcon Lake Dam	20.6	523
81	Fredericksburg	31.5	801
67	Kingsville	30.4	772
61	Laredo	20.2	513
52	Midland	14.6	371
73	New Braunfels	34.0	863
83	San Antonio	32.3	820

East Texas

Average amount of rain and snow a year

Days	Place	Inches	Milli­metres
88	Lake Fork	43.7	1111
90	Longview	48.1	1221
102	Lufkin	49.0	1243
106	Sam Rayburn Lake Dam	59.8	1518
109	Texarkana	52.0	1320
115	Toledo Bend Reservoir Dam	54.9	1395
99	Tyler	46.6	1184

Gulf Coast

Average annual precipitation

Days	Place	Inches	Milli­metres
78	Aransas Wildlife Refuge	41.0	1042
114	Beaumont	60.4	1535
74	Brownsville	27.4	697
77	Corpus Christi	31.8	807
90	Galveston	43.1	1093
104	Houston	49.8	1264
65	McAllen	22.2	564
–	South Padre Island	25.8	656
94	Victoria	41.2	1047

West Texas

Annual precipitation totals

Days	Place	Inches	Milli­metres
69	Abilene	24.8	630
72	Amarillo	20.4	517
61	Del Rio	19.5	496
53	El Paso	9.7	247
69	Guadalupe Mountains Park	18.0	456
36	Lajitas, Big Bend Park	10.9	276
66	Lubbock	19.1	486
62	San Angelo	21.3	540