Major cities with the highest modelled annual precipitation
Bergen, Norway has the highest annual precipitation (modelled) of the 30 cities compared: 2,717 mm/year (NASA POWER 20-year meteorological and solar climatology, 2001-2020).
Annual precipitation is derived from the NASA POWER climatological daily rate × 365.25. It is not a rainy-day count.
- Items compared
- 30
- Countries represented
- 15
- Last checked
- 2026-07-16
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| Original rank | City or place | Source and scope | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bergen, Norway | 2,717 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 2 | Trondheim, Norway | 1,483 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 3 | New York, United States | 1,311 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 4 | Cork, Ireland | 1,198 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 5 | Munich, Germany | 1,132 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 6 | Limerick, Ireland | 1,092 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 7 | Montreal, Canada | 1,085 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 8 | Oslo, Norway | 1,048 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 9 | Göteborg, Sweden | 1,034 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 10 | Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal | 1,008 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 11 | Milano, Italy | 986.2 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 12 | Chicago, United States | 982.5 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 13 | Dublin, Ireland | 982.5 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 14 | Linz, Austria | 880.3 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 15 | 's-Gravenhage, Netherlands | 836.4 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 16 | Genova, Italy | 836.4 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 17 | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 836.4 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 18 | Graz, Austria | 832.8 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 19 | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 829.1 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 20 | Torino, Italy | 778 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 21 | Charleroi, Belgium | 774.3 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 22 | Tampere, Finland | 774.3 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 23 | Toronto, Canada | 774.3 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 24 | Rīga, Latvia | 763.4 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 25 | Hamburg, Germany | 752.4 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 26 | Nîmes, France | 737.8 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 27 | Espoo, Finland | 726.8 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 28 | Helsinki, Finland | 712.2 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 29 | Sofia, Bulgaria | 704.9 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 30 | Malmö, Sweden | 701.3 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
What the numbers say
- Bergen, Norway leads at 2,717 mm/year.
- Malmö, Sweden sits at the other end with 701.3 mm/year.
- The middle of this ranking is 836.4 mm/year, across 30 places that publish the metric.
- The spread between first and last is 2,016 mm/year.
Quick answer
What does Major cities with the highest modelled annual precipitation show?
Bergen, Norway has the highest annual precipitation (modelled) of the 30 cities compared: 2,717 mm/year (NASA POWER 20-year meteorological and solar climatology, 2001-2020).
How this list is built
Every row is a published annual precipitation (modelled) observation measured in mm/year, ranked highest first. The values were observed in 2001. A place appears only when it publishes this exact metric, so an absent place means missing data rather than a low value. Only published cities with at least 100,000 residents and city-level observations qualify.
- Compare the displayed value, unit, source date and geographic grain together.
- A city label does not change a regional observation into a city measurement.
- Rows
- 30 places
- Geographic grain
- city coordinate grid
- Observation period
- 2001-2020
- Last checked
- 2026-07-16
- With an official source link
- 30 of 30
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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 16). Major cities with the highest modelled annual precipitation [ImmigrationDB compilation; version 108e806cea9c08952b1674c62d02670f]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/reports/major-cities-highest-modelled-annual-precipitation/ Retrieved 2026-10-16. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/BibTeX citation
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