# Counties in South Carolina by annual precipitation, 2025

All 46 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/south-carolina-counties

| Rank | Place | inches |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Georgetown County | 51.39 |
| 2 | Horry County | 49.98 |
| 3 | Oconee County | 49.32 |
| 4 | Williamsburg County | 47.48 |
| 5 | Pickens County | 46.93 |
| 6 | Marion County | 45.97 |
| 7 | Lexington County | 45.33 |
| 8 | Florence County | 44.83 |
| 9 | Abbeville County | 44.66 |
| 10 | Clarendon County | 44.57 |
| 11 | Saluda County | 44.46 |
| 12 | Greenwood County | 43.92 |
| 13 | Calhoun County | 43.89 |
| 13 | Newberry County | 43.89 |
| 15 | Laurens County | 43.83 |
| 16 | Colleton County | 43.74 |
| 17 | Dorchester County | 43.67 |
| 18 | Orangeburg County | 43.59 |
| 19 | Berkeley County | 43.58 |
| 20 | Sumter County | 43.49 |
| 21 | Aiken County | 43.47 |
| 22 | Richland County | 43.18 |
| 23 | Lee County | 42.68 |
| 24 | Barnwell County | 42.62 |
| 25 | Jasper County | 42.52 |
| 26 | Bamberg County | 42.38 |
| 27 | Hampton County | 42.13 |
| 28 | Greenville County | 42.07 |
| 29 | Charleston County | 41.92 |
| 30 | Dillon County | 41.55 |
| 31 | Fairfield County | 41.47 |
| 32 | Spartanburg County | 41.44 |
| 33 | Anderson County | 41.19 |
| 34 | Allendale County | 41.15 |
| 35 | Darlington County | 40.49 |
| 36 | Edgefield County | 40.44 |
| 37 | Kershaw County | 40.28 |
| 38 | McCormick County | 40.26 |
| 39 | Beaufort County | 40.1 |
| 40 | York County | 39.46 |
| 41 | Union County | 39.21 |
| 42 | Cherokee County | 38.53 |
| 43 | Marlboro County | 38.34 |
| 44 | Chesterfield County | 37.71 |
| 45 | Chester County | 37.67 |
| 46 | Lancaster County | 36.65 |