The Rainiest Places on Earth

Which places receive the most mois­ture? Inter­est­ing?! Then we read our arti­cle and you will find out which place is the raini­est on the plan­et.

So the largest amount of rain is received by: Cher­ra­pun­ji — India, Mount Wai’ale’ale — Hawaii, and Tutunen­do — Colom­bia.

Mount Waialil: Aver­age rain­fall about 426 inch­es in 1912. The high­est rain­fall in this place was record­ed in 1982 — 683 inch­es.

Pre­cip­i­ta­tion in Cher­ra­pun­ji, India is 11430 mm, which is about 450 cen­time­ters. The high­est rain­fall record­ed in Cher­ra­pun­ji was in 1861 at 22987 mm, which is approx­i­mate­ly 905 cen­time­ters.

Anoth­er place in India, Mawsyn­ram in Megha­laya: record­ed an aver­age rain­fall of 11873 mm.

And the most rain­fall in the world is Tutunen­do (Tutunen­do) in Choco, Colom­bia. Rain­fall here aver­ages 11,394 mm per year, which is approx­i­mate­ly 448 cen­time­ters. The high­est lev­el of pre­cip­i­ta­tion, in 1974, is 26303 mm (1,035.6 inch­es).