🇺🇸 Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Does It Rain at Electric Daisy Carnival Las Vegas?

Across roughly 15 years of records at the site, rain falls on about 0% of EDC Las Vegas days, averaging 0.1mm a day.

The short answer

0%

of days see 1mm+

0.1 mm

average per day

Low

mud risk

Rain is the exception rather than the rule here. Mud is rarely the story — dust and sun usually are.

Rain day by day

DayRainHighWeather score
Fri 15 May0.0 mm31°C100%
Sat 16 May0.1 mm31°C100%
Sun 17 May0.1 mm31°C100%

The wettest festival day on average is Sat 16 May at 0.1mm; the driest is Fri 15 May at 0.0mm. Over the main days that adds up to roughly 0.2mm.

What rain actually does to EDC Las Vegas

Because EDC runs overnight, the brutal daytime heat mostly affects the trip in and out — the festival itself is in much friendlier desert-night temperatures. The real weather story is wind: dust storms have delayed sets and grounded the rides in past years, and dehydration is a year-after-year risk even at night.

If the forecast turns wet

  • Boots over trainers, and a spare pair of shoes sealed in a bag.
  • Rain jacket for walking, poncho for standing in a crowd with a backpack.
  • Pitch on the high side of the field, never in a dip, and use a groundsheet.
  • Dry bags for phone, power bank, tickets and one full change of clothes.

How we know

These numbers come from the Open-Meteo historical reanalysis at the festival's coordinates, averaged day by day over about 15 years. They describe a typical edition, not the one you're going to — for the live picture, the EDC Las Vegas forecast page updates twice a day once the event is inside the forecast window.