# Counties in New Mexico by annual precipitation, 2025

All 33 values come from NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information for 2025, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `precipitation_annual`
- Unit: inches
- Definition: Total precipitation from January to December, in inches: rain plus the water content of snow and other frozen precipitation. NOAA computes it from its climate divisional dataset (nClimDiv): station readings interpolated onto a 5 km grid and averaged over the area.
- Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, NOAA Climate at a Glance, January to December precipitation, counties (https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/climate-at-a-glance/county/mapping)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/noaa-ncei
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Climate at a Glance. NOAA Climate at a Glance, January to December precipitation, counties. From the NOAA Monthly U.S. Climate Divisional Database (nClimDiv), doi:10.7289/V5M32STR. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/climate-at-a-glance/county/mapping. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/annual-precipitation/new-mexico-counties

| Rank | Place | inches |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Quay County | 21.3 |
| 2 | Curry County | 20.84 |
| 3 | San Miguel County | 19.51 |
| 4 | Mora County | 18.8 |
| 5 | Guadalupe County | 18.11 |
| 6 | Los Alamos County | 17.66 |
| 7 | Colfax County | 17.24 |
| 8 | De Baca County | 17.11 |
| 9 | Union County | 17 |
| 10 | Santa Fe County | 16.96 |
| 11 | Harding County | 16.44 |
| 12 | Torrance County | 16.02 |
| 13 | Taos County | 16 |
| 14 | Roosevelt County | 15.97 |
| 15 | Lincoln County | 13.34 |
| 16 | Rio Arriba County | 13.32 |
| 17 | Chaves County | 13.14 |
| 18 | Lea County | 13.05 |
| 19 | Eddy County | 11.97 |
| 20 | Grant County | 10.82 |
| 21 | Sandoval County | 10.63 |
| 22 | Otero County | 10.48 |
| 23 | Bernalillo County | 9.86 |
| 24 | Catron County | 9.73 |
| 25 | Cibola County | 9.44 |
| 26 | Socorro County | 8.83 |
| 27 | Sierra County | 8.75 |
| 28 | McKinley County | 8.62 |
| 29 | Valencia County | 8.4 |
| 30 | Hidalgo County | 8.31 |
| 31 | Doña Ana County | 8.28 |
| 31 | Luna County | 8.28 |
| 33 | San Juan County | 7.07 |