Do you get wetter running or walking in the rain?

Question

There is no wind and you will reach your destination before you are saturated....

Answer 1

i think running will get u more wet, coz the rain will be hitting more twice as much as walking will do.

Answer 2

Actually it depends on your speed.

As you walk the rain hits you more directly from the top, which then runs down your body. If you increase your speed into the rain, it begins to hit you more on the front, which increases the rate at which the front of you gets wet.

Now, if you are in the rain long enough, regardless of walking or running, you will become 100% saturated, which at that point makes it a moot point, as you are wet all the way around.

Answer 3

If the rain is falling vertically then running should be worse...

Assume that with the rain falling vertically most will fall on your head and shoulders, some on your shoes and a little on the tops of your legs and arms as you swing them.

Once you start running then the front part of your body will 'see' the rain coming toward it so it will get much wetter - plus all the bits that would have gotten wet while walking will continue to get wet.

Answer 4

I remember watching a programme on tv about this a few weeks ago. They did an experiment both running and walking in the rain and strangely it turns out that you get wetter running than you do walking.

Answer 5

The only way to answer the question is statistically.

Imagine a human shaped as a 1 metre cube, able to move about in two dimensions i.e. on a plane surface.

Imagine then, that raindrops are falling towards the ground at a rate of one per cubic metre per second.

That is every cubic metre in contact with the ground will contain one raindrop and one only.

Clearly then, a raindrop will strike the "cube" human's top surface once each second whether he is stationary, or moving at any speed.

Therefore, it makes no difference if you are standing still, walking or running, rain will hit you at the same rate no matter what.

Answer 6

If the time taken is the same for both,then you get wetter when you are running, just like you face more wind when you are running against wind.

Answer 7

I would say you get wetter walking as you are in the rain longer.

Answer 8

just stand there till it stops ... if you're not very big, raindrops might even miss you ... all of them ... unless there's wind ... and if there is, just try to position your body so the rain goes vertically towards it, and you're fine .. if you're very experienced with this game, you can even stay dry in the rain when there's changing wind ... by swaying a bit from one side to the other ... might sound tricky, but it's like riding a bicycle, you develop a felling for it, and once you learn how to do it, you will be free of umbrellas for the rest of your life

Answer 9

Think about driving your car in rain. If you are going slowly your wipers clear the rain easily. If you are going fast it becomes almost impossible to see because your forward motion causes you to pick up more of the rain. I would think the same would apply to walking and running in the rain.

Answer 10

my mate did this for an experiment in school.
if you have somewhere in particular to go, running will keep you driest, but if you're just wandering about, walking will.
as all these other guys have said, if you run, rain doesn't just fall on you, you hit it too, but you get to your destination quicker.
if there's no destination, so you're walking or running about for the same length of time, obviously walking will make less rain getcha.

this is really true so please gimme the points!

Answer 11

Actually...on the Discovery Channel show, 'Mythbusters', they tackled this question. The results, you get wetter running from point to point then walking.