Chart: Bay Area rainfall totals for New Year’s storms
A series of storms in the first days of 2026 dropped 10 inches of rain in the wettest parts of the Bay Area.
Below are rainfall totals from Dec. 31 through Jan. 5. The National Weather Service figures are raw numbers, meaning they haven’t been quality-checked for accuracy.
| Location | Inches |
|---|---|
| Peninsula & South Bay | |
| Palo Alto Foothills Park | 5.71 |
| I-280 & Edgewood | 5.15 |
| Rancho San Antonio | 4.72 |
| San Francisco airport | 4.7 |
| Los Gatos (Rinconada) | 3.94 |
| Calero Reservoir | 3.7 |
| Atherton | 3.16 |
| Morgan Hill | 2.84 |
| Sunnyvale | 2.68 |
| San Jose downtown | 2.67 |
| San Jose Penitencia | 2.6 |
| Palo Alto baylands | 2.33 |
| Mountain View | 2.32 |
| San Jose Evergreen | 2.13 |
| East Bay | |
| Tilden Park | 6.17 |
| Mount Diablo | 5.29 |
| UC Berkeley Botanical Garden | 5.1 |
| Orinda | 4.48 |
| Chabot Reservoir | 3.29 |
| Danville | 3.28 |
| Hayward | 3.28 |
| Oakland airport | 3.11 |
| Union City | 2.93 |
| Fremont (Auto Mall) | 2.5 |
| Black Diamond | 2.23 |
| Livermore | 2.07 |
| South Santa Cruz Mtns. | |
| Scott Creek | 10.6 |
| Mount Umunhum | 10.55 |
| Highway 17 summit | 10.01 |
| Ben Lomond landfill | 9.45 |
| Boulder Creek | 8.3 |
| Sanborn Park HQ | 7.71 |
| Lexington Reservoir | 7.56 |
| Davenport | 5 |
| Mount Madonna | 4.14 |
| North Bay | |
| Fairfax | 8.94 |
| Marin Civic Center | 6.77 |
| Mill Valley | 5 |
| Point Reyes Station | 4.85 |
| Tiburon | 4.57 |