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The driest places in Europe year-round: ranked by rainfall

Almería tops the list at 18 mm averaged across the year. Ranked from 1991–2020 climate normals across 50 destinations in Europe.

Top three averaged across all twelve months: Almería (18 mm) , Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (18 mm) , Astrakhan (19 mm) . Between first and 50th place the rainfall differs by 21 mm.

# Destination Country Rainfall Avg high Avg low Rainfall Wet days Sunshine Sea temp
1 Almería Spain 18 mm 23 °C 15 °C 18 mm 3 340 h 19 °C
2 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Spain 18 mm 22 °C 17 °C 18 mm 4 346 h 21 °C
3 Astrakhan Russia 19 mm 16 °C 6.9 °C 19 mm 4 259 h –
4 Yakutsk Russia 19 mm -3.2 °C -12 °C 19 mm 4 260 h –
5 Cartagena Spain 22 mm 21 °C 16 °C 22 mm 3 333 h 19 °C
6 La Laguna Spain 23 mm 19 °C 16 °C 23 mm 4 346 h 21 °C
7 Limassol Cyprus 23 mm 24 °C 16 °C 23 mm 4 342 h 22 °C
8 Elche Spain 24 mm 23 °C 13 °C 24 mm 4 330 h 19 °C
9 Ulan-Ude Russia 25 mm 6.4 °C -5.1 °C 25 mm 5 293 h –
10 Murcia Spain 25 mm 24 °C 12 °C 25 mm 4 329 h –
11 Nicosia Cyprus 29 mm 25 °C 15 °C 29 mm 5 341 h 22 °C
12 Zaragoza Spain 29 mm 21 °C 10 °C 29 mm 5 315 h –
13 Orsk Russia 29 mm 9.6 °C 0.1 °C 29 mm 6 257 h –
14 Chita Russia 30 mm 5.6 °C -5.9 °C 30 mm 5 292 h –
15 Albacete Spain 30 mm 20 °C 8.9 °C 30 mm 5 313 h –
16 Bratsk Russia 30 mm 2.5 °C -4.0 °C 30 mm 7 254 h –
17 Volgograd Russia 31 mm 13 °C 5.0 °C 31 mm 6 246 h –
18 Abakan Russia 31 mm 7.8 °C -1.9 °C 31 mm 7 266 h –
19 Alicante Spain 32 mm 22 °C 15 °C 32 mm 5 330 h 19 °C
20 Valletta Malta 32 mm 21 °C 17 °C 32 mm 5 333 h 20 °C
21 Castelló de la Plana Spain 32 mm 21 °C 13 °C 32 mm 4 321 h 19 °C
22 Athens Greece 32 mm 22 °C 13 °C 32 mm 5 318 h 20 °C
23 Orenburg Russia 33 mm 10 °C 0.9 °C 33 mm 7 246 h –
24 Angarsk Russia 33 mm 6.5 °C -4.5 °C 33 mm 6 277 h –
25 Palma Spain 33 mm 21 °C 15 °C 33 mm 5 327 h 19 °C
26 Madrid Spain 33 mm 20 °C 8.9 °C 33 mm 5 315 h –
27 Magnitogorsk Russia 34 mm 7.6 °C -1.8 °C 34 mm 7 254 h –
28 Ciudad Lineal Spain 34 mm 20 °C 8.5 °C 34 mm 5 315 h –
29 Omsk Russia 34 mm 6.3 °C -2.4 °C 34 mm 8 235 h –
30 Odesa Ukraine 35 mm 15 °C 8.4 °C 35 mm 6 267 h 13 °C
31 Valencia Spain 35 mm 22 °C 14 °C 35 mm 5 322 h 19 °C
32 Rubtsovsk Russia 35 mm 8.7 °C -1.4 °C 35 mm 8 265 h –
33 Sevastopol Ukraine 36 mm 16 °C 9.9 °C 36 mm 7 292 h 15 °C
34 Longyearbyen Svalbard and Jan Mayen 36 mm -3.6 °C -7.5 °C 36 mm 8 190 h –
35 Mykolayiv Ukraine 36 mm 15 °C 6.8 °C 36 mm 7 263 h –
36 Engels Russia 37 mm 11 °C 3.0 °C 37 mm 7 244 h –
37 Kurgan Russia 37 mm 6.9 °C -1.6 °C 37 mm 8 239 h –
38 Badajoz Spain 37 mm 23 °C 11 °C 37 mm 5 311 h –
39 Saratov Russia 37 mm 10 °C 2.6 °C 37 mm 7 244 h –
40 Volgodonsk Russia 38 mm 14 °C 6.6 °C 38 mm 7 247 h –
41 Irkutsk Russia 38 mm 6.6 °C -4.0 °C 38 mm 7 278 h –
42 Valladolid Spain 38 mm 18 °C 7.5 °C 38 mm 7 301 h –
43 Krasnoyarsk Russia 38 mm 5.7 °C -3.3 °C 38 mm 9 244 h –
44 Alcalá de Henares Spain 39 mm 20 °C 8.9 °C 39 mm 6 310 h –
45 Tiraspol Moldova 39 mm 15 °C 6.8 °C 39 mm 7 258 h –
46 Málaga Spain 39 mm 21 °C 15 °C 39 mm 5 329 h 18 °C
47 Makhachkala Russia 39 mm 16 °C 10 °C 39 mm 7 276 h 14 °C
48 Chelyabinsk Russia 39 mm 6.9 °C -1.0 °C 39 mm 8 245 h –
49 Mariupol Ukraine 39 mm 14 °C 8.0 °C 39 mm 7 261 h 13 °C
50 Zaporizhzhya Ukraine 39 mm 14 °C 6.4 °C 39 mm 7 253 h –

Averaged across all twelve months, and only for destinations with a full twelve-month series and a published climate page. Download this ranking as CSV.

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How this ranking is built

What is ranked
Total precipitation, in mm, averaged across all twelve months, lowest first.
Period
1991–2020 climate normals: the same 30 years for every destination, so the list compares like with like.
Who is included
50 destinations in Europe with a published climate page and a complete twelve-month series. Neighbouring places that share a climate series are shown once.
Ties
Equal values are ordered by fewest wet days.
Sources
ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis via Open-Meteo; sea temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1. Measured values are reproduced unchanged; only the ordering is ours.

Data sources and method

Normal period
1991–2020
Dataset version
era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
Last processed

Measured values come from ERA5 reanalysis and are reproduced unchanged. Calculated by us: ranking order, beach and comfort scores. Full formulas are on the methodology page.

Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.