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Season Rainfall (Precipitation)
2024-2025

Downtown Los Angeles

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Rainfall Over Downtown Los Angeles at Night

Downtown Los Angeles skyline at night under the rain. Photo courtesy of Delia Thornton.


Why our “Rainfall Season” is different than that of the National Weather Service


Also see:
-- Downtown L.A. Total Seasonal Rainfall Since 1877
-- Downtown L.A. Record Rain Days by Month
-- Downtown L.A. Record Rainfall for Each Day of Year

-- Current Season Rainfall-to-Date - Burbank
-- Current Season Rainfall-to-Date - Beverly Hills
-- Current Season Rainfall-to-Date - Claremont
-- Current Season Rainfall-to-Date - Hawthorne
-- Current Season Rainfall-to-Date - Lancaster
-- Current Season Rainfall-to-Date - Long Beach
-- Current Season Rainfall-to-Date - Los Angeles International Airport
-- Current Season Rainfall-to-Date - Palmdale
-- Current Season Rainfall-to-Date - Pasadena
-- Current Season Rainfall-to-Date - Sandberg
-- Current Season Rainfall-to-Date - Santa Catalina Island
-- Current Season Rainfall-to-Date - Santa Clarita
-- Current Season Rainfall-to-Date - Santa Fe Dam (San Gabriel Valley)
-- Current Season Rainfall-to-Date - Santa Monica
-- Current Season Rainfall-to-Date - Torrance
-- Current Season Rainfall-to-Date - Van Nuys, Los Angeles
-- Current Season Rainfall-to-Date - Westwood, Los Angeles
-- Current Season Rainfall-to-Date - Whittier
-- Current Season Rainfall-to-Date - Woodland Hills, Los Angeles

Rainfall, Precipitation, Weather, Map, Los Angeles County


NOTE: When most weather reporting sources cite weather in Los Angeles (without specifying where, exactly, in Los Angeles), these numbers are typically for the Downtown Los Angeles weather station.


Rainfall and Raindrops
How Much Water is One Inch of Rain?



On May 20, 2024, the official Downtown Los Angeles weather observation site was relocated from the University of Southern California (USC) campus, where it had been located since 1999, to the Frank Hotchkin Memorial Training Center in Elysian Park. The new site is at the training center for the Los Angeles Fire Departmenton, on the south side of Dodger Stadium, approximately four miles northeast of the USC campus. The center was formerly known as the Navy and Marine Corps Reserve Center.


Downtown Los Angeles
November 2024 Rainfall-to-Date

Rainfall measured in inches

Date (November) Rainfall Measured for Day Month's Cumulative Rainfall Measured
No rainfall data yet reported by the National Weather Service for this month.


Downtown Los Angeles
2024-2025 Rainfall Season-to-Date

Monthly rainfall totals for previous seasons are found at Monthly Rainfall for Downtown Los Angeles.


Rainfall measured in inches

NOTE: Rainfall normals were updated on May 4, 2021.

Month Rainfall For Month Rainfall For Season
Measured for Month Monthly Normal Deviation from Monthly Normal Measured for Season-to-Date Season Normal-to-Date Deviation from Season Normal-to-Date
Jul 2024 0.00 0.02 -0.02 0.00 0.02 -0.02
Aug 2024 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.02 -0.02
Sep 2024 0.00 0.13 -0.13 0.00 0.15 -0.15
Oct 2024 0.00 0.58 -0.58 0.00 0.73 -0.73
Nov 2024 --- 0.78 --- --- 1.51 ---
Dec 2024 --- 2.48 --- --- 3.99 ---
Month Rainfall For Month Rainfall For Season
Measured for Month Monthly Normal Deviation from Monthly Normal Measured for Season-to-Date Season Normal-to-Date Deviation from Season Normal-to-Date
Jan 2025 --- 3.29 --- --- 7.28 ---
Feb 2025 --- 3.64 --- --- 10.92 ---
Mar 2025 --- 2.23 --- --- 13.15 ---
Apr 2025 --- 0.69 --- --- 13.84 ---
May 2025 --- 0.32 --- --- 14.16 ---
Jun 2025 --- 0.09 --- --- 14.25 ---

† Normals, recalculated every ten years, were updated on May 4, 2021. The total season normal for this station is 14.25 inches.

Source: National Weather Service Forecast Office, Los Angeles/Oxnard


Rainfall, Los Angeles

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Los Angeles Almanac chart. Dotted orange line is current seasonal rainfall normal for Downtown L.A. See L.A.'s Historic Seasonal Rainfall.