Where Is the Wettest Place on Earth?

The average city in the United States might receive 25 to 45 inches of rain in a year. New York receives about 43 inches, and Dallas about 32 inches.

But a mountainous region on the island of Kauai, in Hawaii, receives 460 inches of rain in an average year. In Kauai, the wettest place on earth, it sometimes rains 350 days out of the year!

Though Kauai has the highest average rainfall, other places on earth have received more than 460 inches of rain in a year.

In Cherrapunji, India, it rained so hard in 1861 that the rainfall totaled more than 1,042 inches — that's about 87 feet!