#1Datchet
4,807 peopleRain a year·14 days of 10 mm+·#278 of 2,537 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
Datchet, #1 on this list · Photo: James Emmans · CC BY-SA 2.0Berkshire rankings · Climate
Driest towns in Berkshire
Datchet is the driest of Berkshire’s 30 towns of 2,500+: 618 mm of rain in a typical year (Met Office, 1991–2020). The typical town here gets 681 mm.
Rain in a typical year, in millimetres. Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 averages on its 2 km grid, the cells inside each town averaged (contains Met Office data © Crown copyright). A described list: no letters. The rank across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland sits beside each figure.
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#2Slough
166,868 peopleRain a year·15 days of 10 mm+·#430 of 2,537 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
#3Shinfield
5,417 peopleRain a year·15 days of 10 mm+·#439 of 2,537 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
All 30 towns, ranked
Rain a year, lowest first. Towns smaller than a 2 km cell share its figures. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T = tied). Each rank across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland links to the national list.
30 towns.
#TownRain a yearDays 10 mm+UK rank
Quick answers
Questions people ask
What is the driest town in Berkshire?
Datchet: 618 mm of rain in a typical year, the most in November 70 mm. Slough and Shinfield follow.
How are these towns ranked?
By the rain that falls in a typical year, least first, from the Met Office’s 1991–2020 averages on its 2 km grid: the cells inside the town, or the one nearest its centre for a town smaller than a cell. The figure is the one on each town’s Climate page.
Why isn’t my town on this list?
The list covers Berkshire’s towns of 2,500+ with the figure. Smaller places show it on their own pages; every town in Berkshire is on the county page.
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Every list ranks the same 2,500+ towns, so a town’s rank means the same thing on each.
Best places to live30 towns · #1 TwyfordBest small towns17 towns · #1 TwyfordMost affordable towns30 towns · #1 WoodleySafest towns30 towns · #1 CharvilTowns with the best schools30 towns · #1 WinnershHealthiest towns30 towns · #1 PangbourneBest towns for jobs & income30 towns · #1 TwyfordMost walkable towns30 towns · #1 ReadingTowns with the lowest flood risk30 towns · #1 Binfield and MortimerBest towns for the outdoors30 towns · #1 ThealeMost historic towns30 towns · #1 LambournTowns with the most civic life30 towns · #1 MortimerTowns with the highest household incomes30 towns · #1 BinfieldDescribed, no lettersTowns with the lowest council tax30 towns · #1 WindsorDescribed, no lettersTowns with the mildest winters30 towns · #1 DatchetDescribed, no lettersTowns with the warmest summers30 towns · #1 MaidenheadDescribed, no lettersTowns with the coolest summers30 towns · #1 LambournDescribed, no lettersTowns with the fewest frosts30 towns · #1 DatchetDescribed, no lettersWettest towns30 towns · #1 LambournDescribed, no letters
County by county
Driest towns, county by county
AberdeenshireBedfordshireBerkshireBuckinghamshireCambridgeshireCheshireClwydCornwallCounty DurhamCumbriaDerbyshireDevonDorsetDyfedEast Riding of YorkshireEast SussexEssexFifeGloucestershireGreater ManchesterGwentHampshireHertfordshireHighlandKentLancashireLeicestershireLincolnshireLondonMerseysideMid GlamorganNorfolkNorth LanarkshireNorth YorkshireNorthamptonshireNorthumberlandNottinghamshireOxfordshireShropshireSomersetSouth LanarkshireSouth YorkshireStaffordshireSuffolkSurreyTyne and WearWarwickshireWest GlamorganWest MidlandsWest SussexWest YorkshireWiltshireWorcestershire
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Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.