How Dry is Colorado Compared to Neighboring States?

If you've lived in Colorado long enough, you're likely aware that the weather varies greatly from season to season and in some cases, day to day.

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Despite the fact that a good chunk of the state depends on heavy snowfall for ski season each winter, the state of Colorado is actually one of the driest in the nation when it comes to precipitation.

How Dry is Colorado on a National Level?

New research suggests that Colorado is the 7th driest state in the country when it comes to precipitation, a figure that may come as quite a surprise, especially in recent times.

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Studies show that Colorado receives an average of 18.1 inches of rainfall annually, with a monthly average of only one inch. Believe it or not, it has also been reported that the rainiest month of the year in Colorado is August.

However, as we travel outside of the state's borders, we find much drier states.

For example, Colorado's neighbor to the west, Utah, is the third-driest state in the country with only 13.6 inches of annual rainfall.

If we head south, New Mexico is shown to be the fourth-driest state with 14 inches of annual rainfall, and Colorado's neighbor to the north, Wyoming, is the fifth-driest with 15.9 inches of rainfall each year.

With that being said, the other neighboring states, including Kansas and Nebraska, receive more annual rainfall than Colorado, with neither of them cracking the top 10 on the list of the driest states in the nation.

Check out the full report here.