11 Reasons a Rainy Day is Amazing…

Last updated on 25 June 2024

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Rainy days are underappreciated.

Much like my love of autumn, the colour yellow, a good book and anything involving the combination of peanut butter and chocolate, I love rain. In fact, I like rainy days are amazing. And yesterday, boy did it rain. It rained and rained and rained. And while I have just got a job, that doesn’t start until next week, so I’m at a loose end at home.

Normally on a rainy day I would actually go outside, maybe take some photos, take my gumboots for a walk, but yesterday’s rain came with an almighty wind that was tearing trees down and ripping the guttering off the house. No, yesterday was a stay-inside-and-don’t-come-out day. This meant, of course, that I could write this post.

Here are 11 Reasons A Rainy Day is Amazing.

1. You don’t have to water the plants

Yup, starting off with an obvious one. We haven’t had really good rain in a while, and the days are still sunny and warm and the plants need watering. But not on a rainy day!

2. No one will judge if you stay in bed all-day

A rainy day is the best time to get away with staying warm and cosy under your duvet all day, only emerging to get food…to bring back to bed with you. Staying in bed all day also means you can wear your pyjamas all day. It’s pouring with rain outside, and no one expects you to venture out – you might as well stay in bed.

3. Books books books

While in bed, you can be curled up with a hot chocolate, or tea, and read the day away. You can even read an entire book in one sitting. Sure you may close the cover at the end of the day and feel like you’re still in the story because you haven’t done anything else all day, but that’s part of the joy and the fun.

4. Watch a movie

When we were kids, we weren’t allowed to watch movies during the day if it was sunny outside. And fair enough; kids are supposed to run around, climb trees, fall out of them, get grass stains and eat sand. But if it were a rainy Saturday, it was movie day, and we got to sit in our pjs in front of a good movie…in the daytime. Much like staying in bed and reading, staying in bed or wrapping yourself in a blanket on the sofa to watch a movie is one of the best things about a rainy day. You could even watch Singing in the Rain, if you like.

5. If you do go outside, gumboots are optional…

If you want to keep your feet dry, gumboots are obviously the footwear of choice…but if it’s the middle of summer (or at least feels like it), you don’t want to wear socks because then your feet will get too hot, but if you don’t wear socks in your gumboots, you’ll likely get blisters. Take.Them.Off. Here in New Zealand, it’s a common sight to see people wandering around without shoes on, even in the rain. In England, not so much (as I discovered). But that’s something I love about a rainy day – walking along the wet pavement and sloshing through puddles in bare feet.

6. …but take an umbrella with you.

…if you don’t want to get so wet you get sick. I love umbrellas. A lot. I have a bright yellow umbrella with see-through plastic holes in it, so when you have it right down near your head, you can still see out, through the holes. I don’t know what it is, but there’s something about walking around with an umbrella that not only makes me feel like grabbing a lamppost and having a swing, Gene Kelly style, but I want to skip through the puddles and twirl my umbrella around, and I generally feel cheery.

7. Or don’t…it’s really up to you

There’s something exciting about getting caught in the rain (with or without piña coladas) and having to run from one building to another, or to the car…sure you’ll get super-duper wet and you’ll probably get a cold, but if you do a little dance while you’re running, then it would have all been worth it.

8. Find a giant puddle and float paper boats in it

Or in the gutter out by the road. Seriously, this is the best thing ever. It’s actually so much fun, and sure you feel like a 3-year-old doing it, but that’s half the fun. It’ll make someone’s rainy day if they suddenly see a paper boat or a rubber ducky floating by their house or their car. It’s well worth it.

9. At night time, you can fall asleep to the sound of rain on the roof

This is one of my favourite things about a rainy day/night. We have a two-story house, but my room is on the bottom floor (the lounge, kitchen, dining room is upstairs…it’s a confusing layout) so I don’t really get to hear the rain on the roof. But if my windows are open then I can hear it on the deck outside, and that’s nearly as good.

10. People watching

If you live somewhere where you can sit inside and watch people rush by outside, then people-watching in the rain is hilarious. It’s funny watching people run past the window, using different methods of keeping dry. There’s the book on the head; the hoodie; the jersey without a hood, but pulled up over the head so the lower back gets wet; the awkward umbrella that doesn’t keep your legs dry; the “I’m too cool to try and stay dry so I’m soaking wet”; and the fantastic weave-between-the-rain-drops dance. It’s highly amusing and great rainy-day activity.

11. And the final reason that a rainy day is awesome is that you can stay in and read blogs all day

Okay, so maybe you wouldn’t do this all day, but you can at least catch up on all the things that have been happening in the blogging world that you somehow missed. I often find myself with a backlog of all my favourite blogs on Bloglovin‘ that I haven’t read for a few days, and so what better time to read them than on a rainy day. Pop on some music, grab a cuppa and read until the sun starts shining.

Do you think a rainy day is amazing? Or would you rather it be sunny all the time?