Top 10 Rainiest Julys In Dallas History

Typically, by this point in the year, getting in your car for your morning drive to work feels like hopping in a human-sized toaster. The 5 p.m. car ride back might as well be a roast inside a convection oven set to 400. But this year, though still hot, the backs of thighs exposed by the shorts made mandatory in the name of avoiding heat stroke have yet to singe on the burning leather of a driver’s seat baking in July heat. Gripping the wheel hasn’t yet felt like touching lit embers; it’s certainly coming, but we’re grateful for the few spare weeks of tolerable temperatures we got.

For the first time this year, the temperature hit triple digits on Tuesday. The boiling temperatures were delayed by the irregular amount of rain that fell this month. In just the first two weeks of July, two inches of rain fell, about half an inch over the usual monthly average for the historically driest month, according to meteorologists at WFAA. Unfortunately, with the rain comes mosquitoes. It’s a lose-lose situation.

While there were certainly ample opportunities to pull out the old golashes and go stomping around in some puddles this year, this July wasn’t even close to the rainiest Dallas has ever seen. The National Weather Service has been collecting rainfall data in Dallas-Fort Worth since 1898, which means we’ve got over a hundred years of rain history at our fingertips. While the National Weather Service will not publish the official rainfall count for July 2025 until the month has officially ended, it probably won’t beat the rainiest years, which are near half a foot of rain on the low end.

There has only been one July on record with zero rainfall. Coincidentally, it happened in 1993, exactly 20 years after the rainiest July by a large margin.

Perhaps you feel similarly to us and appreciate the cooler temps brought on by this year’s rain. Or maybe the unexpected amount of dreary precipitation in the predictably arid month ruined a few too many of your planned pool days.

Take this list of the rainiest Julys in Dallas-Fort Worth history as you will, whether it makes you appreciate the sunny days we did see, or makes you yearn for torrential Julys to come:

10. 1975: 5.06 inches
Year total: 29.10
Total percentage of yearly rainfall that happened in July: 17.39%

9. 1919: 5.25 inches
Year total: 45.74
Total percentage of yearly rainfall that happened in July: 11.48%

8. 2007: 5.54 inches
Year total: 50.05 inches
Total percentage of yearly rainfall that happened in July: 11.07%

7. 1933: 5.7 inches
Year total: 29.80
Total percentage of yearly rainfall that happened in July: 19.13%

6. 1900: 5.9 inches
Year total: 36.89
Total percentage of yearly rainfall that happened in July: 15.99%

5. 1911: 6.26 inches
Year total: 27.03
Total percentage of yearly rainfall that happened in July: 23.16%

4. 1902: 6.29 inches
Year total: 29.31
Total percentage of yearly rainfall that happened in July: 21.46%

3. 1962: 6.36 inches
Year total: 41.43
Total percentage of yearly rainfall that happened in July: 15.35%

2. 1905: 8.35 inches
Year total: 43.45
Total percentage of yearly rainfall that happened in July: 19.22%

1. 1973: 11.13 inches
Year total: 50.62
Total percentage of yearly rainfall that happened in July: 21.99%