List of countries by average annual precipitation

Countries by average annual precipitation. Some parts of a country can be much wetter than others, so it is not an accurate depiction of the wettest and driest places on earth.

This is a list of countries by average annual precipitation.

List

Per the World Bank (2017)

	Country	mm/ year)	Continent
1	Colombia	3,240	South America
2	São Tomé and Príncipe	3,200	Africa
2	Tuvalu	3,200	Oceania
3	Papua New Guinea	3,142	Oceania
4	Solomon Islands	3,028	Oceania
5	Panama	2,928	North America
6	Costa Rica	2,926	North America
7	Samoa	2,880	Oceania
8	Malaysia	2,875	Asia
9	Brunei	2,722	Asia
10	Indonesia	2,702	Asia
11	Bangladesh	2,666	Asia
12	Fiji	2,592	Oceania
13	Sierra Leone	2,526	Africa
14	Singapore	2,497	Asia
15	Liberia	2,391	Africa
16	Guyana	2,387	South America
17	Grenada	2,350	North America
18	Philippines	2,348	Asia
19	Suriname	2,331	South America
20	Seychelles	2,330	Africa
21	Saint Lucia	2,301	North America
22	Nicaragua	2,280	North America
23	Ecuador	2,274	South America
24	Bhutan	2,200	Asia
24	Trinidad and Tobago	2,200	North America
26	Equatorial Guinea	2,156	Africa
27	Myanmar	2,091	Asia
28	Dominica	2,083	North America
29	Puerto Rico	2,054	North America
30	Jamaica	2,051	North America
31	Venezuela	2,044	South America
32	Mauritius	2,041	Africa
33	Vanuatu	2,000	Oceania
34	Guatemala	1,996	North America
35	Honduras	1,976	North America
36	Maldives	1,972	Asia
37	Iceland	1,940	Europe
38	Cambodia	1,904	Asia
39	Laos	1,834	Asia
40	Gabon	1,831	Africa
41	Vietnam	1,821	Asia
42	El Salvador	1,784	North America
43	Brazil	1,761	South America
44	Peru	1,738	South America
45	New Zealand	1,732	Oceania
46	Sri Lanka	1,712	Asia
47	Belize	1,705	North America
48	Japan	1,668	Asia
49	Guinea	1,651	Africa
50	Congo	1,646	Africa
51	Thailand	1,622	Asia
52	Cameroon	1,604	Africa
53	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1,583	North America
54	Guinea-Bissau	1,577	Africa
55	DR Congo	1,543	Africa
56	Switzerland	1,537	Europe
57	Chile	1,522	South America
58	Madagascar	1,513	Africa
59	East Timor	1,500	Asia
60	Nepal	1,500	Asia
61	Albania	1,485	Europe
62	Haiti	1,440	North America
63	Saint Kitts and Nevis	1,427	North America
64	Barbados	1,422	North America
65	Norway	1,414	Europe
66	Dominican Republic	1,410	North America
67	Ivory Coast	1,348	Africa
68	Central African Republic	1,343	Africa
69	Cuba	1,335	North America
70	Uruguay	1,300	South America
71	Bahamas	1,292	North America
72	Burundi	1,274	Africa
72	South Korea	1,274	Asia
74	United Kingdom	1,220	Europe
75	Rwanda	1,212	Africa
76	Ghana	1,187	Africa
77	Malawi	1,181	Africa
78	Uganda	1,180	Africa
79	Togo	1,168	Africa
80	Slovenia	1,162	Europe
81	Nigeria	1,150	Africa
82	Bolivia	1,146	South America
83	Paraguay	1,130	South America
84	Ireland	1,118	Europe
85	Croatia	1,113	Europe
86	Austria	1,110	Europe
87	India	1,083	Asia
88	Tanzania	1,071	Africa
89	North Korea	1,054	Asia
90	Benin	1,039	Africa
91	Mozambique	1,032	Africa
92	Antigua and Barbuda	1,030	North America
93	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1,028	Europe
94	Georgia	1,026	Asia
95	Zambia	1,020	Africa
96	Angola	1,010	Africa
97	Luxembourg	934	Europe
98	Comoros	900	Africa
99	South Sudan	900	Africa
100	France	867	Europe
101	Portugal	854	Europe
102	Ethiopia	848	Africa
103	Belgium	847	Europe
104	Gambia	836	Africa
105	Italy	832	Europe
106	Slovakia	824	Europe
107	Eswatini	788	Africa
107	Lesotho	788	Africa
109	Netherlands	778	Europe
110	Mexico	758	North America
111	Burkina Faso	748	Africa
112	United States	715	North America
113	Denmark	703	Europe
114	Germany	700	Europe
115	Tajikistan	691	Asia
116	Senegal	686	Africa
117	Czech Republic	677	Europe
118	Latvia	667	Europe
119	Lebanon	661	Asia
120	Zimbabwe	657	Africa
121	Lithuania	656	Europe
122	Greece	652	Europe
123	China	645	Asia
124	Romania	637	Europe
125	Spain	636	Europe
126	Kenya	630	Africa
127	Estonia	626	Europe
128	Sweden	624	Europe
129	North Macedonia	619	Europe
130	Belarus	618	Europe
131	Bulgaria	608	Europe
132	Poland	600	Europe
133	Turkey	593	Europe-Asia
134	Argentina	591	South America
135	Hungary	589	Europe
136	Ukraine	565	Europe
137	Armenia	562	Asia
138	Malta	560	Europe
139	Canada	537	North America
140	Finland	536	Europe
141	Australia	534	Oceania
142	Kyrgyzstan	533	Asia
143	Cyprus	498	Asia
144	South Africa	495	Africa
145	Pakistan	494	Asia
146	Russia	460	Europe-Asia
147	Moldova	450	Europe
148	Azerbaijan	447	Asia
149	Israel	435	Asia
150	Botswana	416	Africa
151	Eritrea	384	Africa
152	Morocco	346	Africa
153	Afghanistan	327	Asia
154	Chad	322	Africa
155	Namibia	285	Africa
156	Mali	282	Africa
156	Somalia	282	Africa
158	Syria	252	Asia
159	Kazakhstan	250	Asia
159	Sudan	250	Africa
161	Mongolia	241	Asia
162	Cape Verde	228	Africa
162	Iran	228	Asia
164	Djibouti	220	Africa
165	Iraq	216	Asia
166	Tunisia	207	Africa
167	Uzbekistan	206	Asia
168	Yemen	167	Asia
169	Turkmenistan	161	Asia
170	Niger	151	Africa
171	Oman	125	Asia
172	Kuwait	121	Asia
173	Jordan	111	Asia
174	Mauritania	92	Africa
175	Algeria	89	Africa
176	Bahrain	83	Asia
177	United Arab Emirates	78	Asia
178	Qatar	74	Asia
179	Saudi Arabia	59	Asia
180	Libya	56	Africa
181	Egypt	18	Africa

See also

• List of countries by average yearly temperature.