Major cities with the lowest modelled annual precipitation
Los Angeles, United States has the lowest annual precipitation (modelled) of the 30 cities compared: 332.4 mm/year (NASA POWER 20-year meteorological and solar climatology, 2001-2020).
The same derived NASA POWER annual precipitation layer ranked low to high. Low millimetres do not mean few rainy days.
- Items compared
- 30
- Countries represented
- 15
- Last checked
- 2026-07-16
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| Original rank | City or place | Source and scope | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Los Angeles, United States | 332.4 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 2 | Valencia, Spain | 394.5 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 3 | Madrid, Spain | 445.6 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 4 | Barcelona, Spain | 518.7 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 5 | Varna, Bulgaria | 536.9 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 6 | Lisbon, Portugal | 540.6 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 7 | Calgary, Canada | 547.9 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 8 | Sintra, Portugal | 573.4 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 9 | Iași, Romania | 577.1 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 10 | Berlin, Germany | 602.7 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 11 | Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland | 610 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 12 | Bucharest, Romania | 617.3 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 13 | Wrocław, Poland | 631.9 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 14 | Paris, France | 661.1 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 15 | Plovdiv, Bulgaria | 661.1 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 16 | Stockholm, Sweden | 664.8 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 17 | Cluj-Napoca, Romania | 679.4 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 18 | Tallinn, Estonia | 686.7 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 19 | Saint-Étienne, France | 694 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 20 | Malmö, Sweden | 701.3 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 21 | Odense, Denmark | 701.3 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 22 | Sofia, Bulgaria | 704.9 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 23 | Helsinki, Finland | 712.2 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 24 | Espoo, Finland | 726.8 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 25 | Nîmes, France | 737.8 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 26 | Hamburg, Germany | 752.4 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 27 | Rīga, Latvia | 763.4 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 28 | Charleroi, Belgium | 774.3 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 29 | Tampere, Finland | 774.3 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
| 30 | Toronto, Canada | 774.3 mm/year | 2026-07-16 | Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020 |
What the numbers say
- Los Angeles, United States leads at 332.4 mm/year.
- Toronto, Canada sits at the other end with 774.3 mm/year.
- The middle of this ranking is 664.8 mm/year, across 30 places that publish the metric.
- The spread between first and last is 442 mm/year.
Quick answer
What does Major cities with the lowest modelled annual precipitation show?
Los Angeles, United States has the lowest annual precipitation (modelled) of the 30 cities compared: 332.4 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 lowest 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 lowest modelled annual precipitation [ImmigrationDB compilation; version 9288948b41e7579a2f1f7bc58c2da034]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/reports/major-cities-lowest-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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author = {ImmigrationDB},
title = {Major cities with the lowest modelled annual precipitation},
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year = {2026},
date = {2026-10-16},
version = {9288948b41e7579a2f1f7bc58c2da034},
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note = {Retrieved 2026-10-16. ImmigrationDB compilation. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/},
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