Australia vs Greenland: Annual precipitation

Australia
454.91 millimeters
in 2025
Greenland
482.24 millimeters
in 2025
Australia rank
156th
Greenland rank
154th

Annual precipitation over time

  • Australia
  • Greenland
200300400500600700194019822025

How they compare

Greenland currently reports 482.24 millimeters against 454.91 millimeters in Australia, a difference of 27.32 millimeters.

That makes Greenland's figure about 1.1 times Australia's.

The two have swapped places 40 times across 86 shared years of data; in 1940 it was Greenland ahead.

Australia ranks 156th and Greenland ranks 154th of 192 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Annual precipitation
Unit
millimeters
Source
Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
192 places, 16,512 data points, 1940–2025
Last refreshed

Total annual precipitation—rain and snow—calculated as the sum of daily averages, reported as the depth of water falling to Earth's surface, excluding fog and dew.