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Land precipitation

Total rain and snow that fell on land in 2024, in millimetres, from rain-gauge stations on a 0.5 degree grid.

World map of total precipitation on land in 2024. Wet tropics are dark green, deserts are pale yellow, and the ocean is light grey-blue.

Shading shows the total precipitation of 2024 in millimetres.

  • Pale yellow, under 100
  • Light yellow, 100 to 250
  • Pale green, 250 to 500
  • Light green, 500 to 1,000
  • Green, 1,000 to 1,500
  • Medium green, 1,500 to 2,000
  • Dark green, 2,000 to 3,000
  • Very dark green, 3,000 or more
  • Light grey-blue, no value

Total precipitation on land in 2024 on a 0.5 degree grid, from rain-gauge stations.

Map: Fix Planet, from the monthly precipitation analysis of the Global Precipitation Climatology Centre at the Deutscher Wetterdienst (German Weather Service), 0.5 degree grid, 2024. Product users are kindly asked to refer to the Global Precipitation Climatology Centre and to quote the citation (https://doi.org/10.5676/DWD_GPCC/MONTHLY_V2025_050). Terms of use: https://www.dwd.de/EN/ourservices/gpcc/editorial/userterms_gpcc.html. Boundaries: Natural Earth, public domain.

Climate 2024 GPCC

What it is

The Global Precipitation Climatology Centre supports climate monitoring and research. It is operated by the Deutscher Wetterdienst (German Weather Service) under the auspices of the World Meteorological Organization. From rain-gauge stations on land it builds gridded monthly precipitation, and its monthly analysis comes at several grid sizes from 0.25 to 2.5 degrees and covers the period from 1891 to the present. The map uses the 0.5 degree grid.

Why it matters

The record runs from 1891, so the product that maps 2024 also supports comparisons across more than a century. The producer recommends the monthly analysis for checking hydrometeorological models and for studying the water cycle.

How to read it

Each square is 0.5 by 0.5 degrees and shows the total precipitation of 2024 in millimetres, the sum of the twelve monthly values. One millimetre is one litre of water on each square metre. Pale yellow is dry, and the greens grow darker as the yearly total rises. The largest totals are in the wet tropics, and the driest squares lie in deserts.

Limits

Only land is covered. A square is coloured only when all twelve months have a value, and everything else, including all ocean, is light grey-blue. The number of stations behind the monthly values varies from fewer than 10,000 to more than 52,000 across the world, so sparsely observed regions are less certain. The producer advises users to take the number of stations per square into account and to apply correction factors for systematic gauge measuring errors. The product is updated at irregular intervals.

Sources

License

Map: Fix Planet, from the monthly precipitation analysis of the Global Precipitation Climatology Centre at the Deutscher Wetterdienst (German Weather Service), 0.5 degree grid, 2024. Product users are kindly asked to refer to the Global Precipitation Climatology Centre and to quote the citation (https://doi.org/10.5676/DWD_GPCC/MONTHLY_V2025_050). Terms of use: https://www.dwd.de/EN/ourservices/gpcc/editorial/userterms_gpcc.html. Boundaries: Natural Earth, public domain.

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