#1Penmaenmawr
2,762 peopleRain a year·39 days of 10 mm+·#144 of 2,537 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Penmaenmawr, #1 on this list · Photo: Ceri Thomas · CC BY-SA 2.0Penmaenmawr is the wettest of Clwyd’s 39 towns of 2,500+: 1,370 mm of rain in a typical year (Met Office, 1991–2020). The typical town here gets 840 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.
#1Rain a year·39 days of 10 mm+·#144 of 2,537 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
#2Rain a year·38 days of 10 mm+·#146 of 2,537 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
#3Rain a year·27 days of 10 mm+·#558 of 2,537 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
Rain a year, highest 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.
39 towns.
Penmaenmawr: 1,370 mm of rain in a typical year, the most in December 164 mm. Llanfairfechan and Llangollen follow.
By the rain that falls in a typical year, most 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.
The list covers Clwyd’s towns of 2,500+ with the figure. Smaller places show it on their own pages; every town in Clwyd is on the county page.
Every list ranks the same 2,500+ towns, so a town’s rank means the same thing on each.
Sources: . All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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.