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Monsoon

The late-summer rainy season that brings most of Albuquerque’s rain.

Albuquerque is dry, with about 8.84 inches of precipitation a year and about 278 sunny days. Most of the rain falls in the summer monsoon, typically from mid-June to mid-September, in showers and thunderstorms; July and August are the wettest months and January the driest. Humidity is higher than usual during the monsoon.

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When is the monsoon?

Typically mid-June to mid-September, with July and August the wettest.

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