Precipitation Changeability

How often does precipitation change from one day to the next?

Your location, Safford, Arizona, USA, ranks #1525 out of 1739 locations for precipitation changeability.

Most Changeable

The 25 locations where precipitation changed the most from one day to the next over the last 12 months. Change % is how often the weather switched between a precipitation day and a dry day. Precip→Dry is how often a precipitation day was followed by a dry day, and Dry→Precip is the reverse.

Rank	Location	Change %	Precip→Dry	Dry→Precip
1	Tabatinga, Amazonas, Brazil	47.1%	43.4%	52.6%
2	Irkutsk, Irkutsk Oblast, Russia	46.8%	45.8%	47.9%
3	Troy, New York, USA	46.8%	53.4%	39.6%
4	Mount Lebanon, Pennsylvania, USA	44.9%	59.6%	36.0%
5	Saint John's, Saint John Parish, Antigua and Barbuda	44.9%	40.8%	50.0%
6	Rio Gallegos, Santa Cruz, Argentina	44.7%	47.5%	42.1%
7	Alpena, Michigan, USA	44.1%	50.8%	39.5%
8	Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil	43.9%	52.6%	27.9%
9	Libreville, Estuaire, Gabon	43.4%	48.0%	38.1%
10	Kampung Baru Subang, Selangor, Malaysia	43.0%	48.2%	36.2%
11	Khabarovsk, Khabarovsk, Russia	42.7%	42.4%	43.0%
12	Cambridge, England, United Kingdom	42.2%	35.4%	53.0%
13	Youngstown, Ohio, USA	42.1%	47.6%	38.2%
14	Tawau, Sabah, Malaysia	42.1%	46.1%	37.1%
15	Beckley, West Virginia, USA	42.0%	48.9%	36.2%
16	George, Western Cape, South Africa	41.9%	52.1%	34.7%
17	Erie, Pennsylvania, USA	41.8%	43.6%	40.4%
18	Olean, New York, USA	41.8%	46.8%	38.1%
19	Cadillac, Michigan, USA	41.8%	50.4%	35.9%
20	Buffalo, New York, USA	41.5%	47.7%	37.1%
21	Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina	41.4%	60.0%	31.1%
22	Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan	41.2%	48.0%	36.1%
23	East Honolulu, Hawaii, USA	41.1%	43.0%	39.3%
24	St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada	41.1%	51.3%	34.6%
25	Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA	41.0%	58.7%	31.3%

Least Changeable

The 25 locations where precipitation changed the least from one day to the next over the last 12 months. These are places where the weather tends to stay the same — dry days stay dry and rainy days stay rainy.

Rank	Location	Change %	Precip→Dry	Dry→Precip
1715	Indio, California, USA	8.2%	56.0%	3.9%
1716	Atascadero, California, USA	8.1%	41.9%	4.1%
1717	Lompoc, California, USA	7.9%	46.2%	4.3%
1718	Huntington Beach, California, USA	7.9%	36.4%	4.6%
1719	Santa Ana, California, USA	7.8%	56.5%	3.8%
1720	Oxnard, California, USA	7.6%	39.3%	4.4%
1721	Long Beach, California, USA	7.6%	42.3%	4.3%
1722	Glendale, California, USA	7.3%	40.0%	3.9%
1723	San Luis Obispo, California, USA	7.3%	39.3%	4.0%
1724	Irvine, California, USA	7.3%	41.7%	4.3%
1725	Los Angeles, California, USA	7.2%	35.5%	4.0%
1726	Lancaster, California, USA	6.9%	50.0%	3.2%
1727	Lake Havasu City, Arizona, USA	6.9%	66.7%	3.4%
1728	Garden Grove, California, USA	6.8%	33.3%	3.9%
1729	Jahrom, Fars, Iran	6.5%	50.0%	3.7%
1730	Yazd, Yazd Province, Iran	6.4%	69.2%	3.4%
1731	Bandar Abbas, Hormozgan, Iran	6.0%	62.5%	2.6%
1732	Santa Clarita, California, USA	5.8%	33.3%	3.2%
1733	Blythe, California, USA	5.7%	71.4%	2.2%
1734	Najran, Najran Region, Saudi Arabia	5.7%	66.7%	2.5%
1735	Zahedan, Sistan and Baluchestan, Iran	5.2%	58.3%	2.9%
1736	Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates	5.1%	57.1%	2.3%
1737	Fujairah, Fujairah, United Arab Emirates	5.0%	88.9%	2.2%
1738	Kerman, Kerman, Iran	4.3%	46.2%	2.3%
1739	Torrance, California, USA	4.3%	77.8%	1.9%