#1Buxton
20,048 peopleRain a year·44 days of 10 mm+·#137 of 2,537 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
Buxton, #1 on this list · Photo: David Weston · CC BY-SA 2.0Derbyshire rankings · Climate
Wettest towns in Derbyshire
Buxton is the wettest of Derbyshire’s 59 towns of 2,500+: 1,395 mm of rain in a typical year (Met Office, 1991–2020). The typical town here gets 772 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.
#11,395mm
#2Glossop
17,820 peopleRain a year·36 days of 10 mm+·#257 of 2,537 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
#3New Mills
9,195 peopleRain a year·29 days of 10 mm+·#319 of 2,537 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
All 59 towns, ranked
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.
59 towns.
#TownRain a yearDays 10 mm+UK rank
Quick answers
Questions people ask
What is the wettest town in Derbyshire?
Buxton: 1,395 mm of rain in a typical year, the most in December 158 mm. Glossop and New Mills follow.
How are these towns ranked?
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.
Why isn’t my town on this list?
The list covers Derbyshire’s towns of 2,500+ with the figure. Smaller places show it on their own pages; every town in Derbyshire 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 live59 towns · #1 ReptonBest small towns40 towns · #1 ReptonMost affordable towns59 towns · #1 SwadlincoteSafest towns59 towns · #1 ReptonTowns with the best schools59 towns · #1 MakeneyHealthiest towns59 towns · #1 MakeneyBest towns for jobs & income59 towns · #1 MakeneyMost walkable towns59 towns · #1 BakewellTowns with the lowest flood risk59 towns · #1 Alfreton and 12 moreBest towns for the outdoors59 towns · #1 Darley DaleMost historic towns59 towns · #1 BakewellTowns with the most civic life59 towns · #1 BakewellTowns with the highest household incomes59 towns · #1 MakeneyDescribed, no lettersTowns with the lowest council tax59 towns · #1 DerbyDescribed, no lettersTowns with the mildest winters59 towns · #1 Long EatonDescribed, no lettersTowns with the warmest summers59 towns · #1 Breaston and Draycott and Long EatonDescribed, no lettersTowns with the coolest summers59 towns · #1 BuxtonDescribed, no lettersTowns with the fewest frosts59 towns · #1 DerbyDescribed, no lettersDriest towns59 towns · #1 Long EatonDescribed, no letters
County by county
Wettest 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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