Average Rainfall for Virginia in July

The tables below give monthly averages for rainfall during July at cities and other locations around Virginia.

Each place has a total for the amount of precipitation it usually receives this month. There is also a count of the number of days with wet weather, when precipitation amounts to 0.01 inches (0.25 millimetres) or more.

The rainfall totals are averages based on weather data collected from 1991 to 2020 for the US National Centers for Environmental Information.

You can jump to a separate table for each region of the state: Coastal Virginia in the east, Piedmont or central Virginia, and the Mountains, including the Shenandoah Valley in the northwest and the Appalachian Mountains of southwest Virginia.

Virginia's Mountains

Average monthly precipitation in July
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
12 Abingdon 4.7 119
13 Blacksburg 4.2 107
16 Burkes Garden 4.6 117
13 Galax 4.2 107
12 Harrisonburg 4.1 104
13 Hot Springs 4.2 107
11 Mount Weather 4.0 102
13 Pennington Gap 4.4 113
12 Roanoke 4.3 109
12 Staunton 4.2 105
11 Winchester 4.1 104
16 Wise 5.8 147

Piedmont Virginia

July averages for total rainfall
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
11 Arlington 4.3 110
12 Charlottesville 4.8 123
10 Danville 4.8 122
10 Fredericksburg 4.8 122
10 John H Kerr Dam 4.9 125
12 Lynchburg 4.2 106
12 Martinsville 4.0 102
9 Petersburg 4.7 119
13 Philpott Lake Dam 5.0 127
11 Richmond 4.4 111

Coastal Virginia

Average amount of rain in July
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
11 Cape Charles 4.7 119
11 Newport News 4.7 119
11 Norfolk 6.1 154
10 North River 5.8 148
10 Painter 5.0 127
12 Suffolk 5.7 145
11 Wallops Island 4.4 111
12 Williamsburg 5.9 150
Reference

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). Climate Normals.

Virginia Precipitation
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