#1Beaminster
2,995 peopleRain a year·36 days of 10 mm+·#391 of 2,537 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
Beaminster, #1 on this list · Photo: Colin Smith · CC BY-SA 2.0Dorset rankings · Climate
Wettest towns in Dorset
Beaminster is the wettest of Dorset’s 32 towns of 2,500+: 1,100 mm of rain in a typical year (Met Office, 1991–2020). The typical town here gets 909 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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#2Dorchester
21,358 peopleRain a year·37 days of 10 mm+·#409 of 2,537 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
#3Shaftesbury
9,163 peopleRain a year·31 days of 10 mm+·#579 of 2,537 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
All 32 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.
32 towns.
#TownRain a yearDays 10 mm+UK rank
Quick answers
Questions people ask
What is the wettest town in Dorset?
Beaminster: 1,100 mm of rain in a typical year, the most in November 132 mm. Dorchester and Shaftesbury 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 Dorset’s towns of 2,500+ with the figure. Smaller places show it on their own pages; every town in Dorset 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 West ParleyBest small towns16 towns · #1 West ParleyMost affordable towns30 towns · #1 FortuneswellSafest towns30 towns · #1 MerleyTowns with the best schools30 towns · #1 BournemouthHealthiest towns30 towns · #1 Ashley HeathBest towns for jobs & income30 towns · #1 MerleyMost walkable towns30 towns · #1 DorchesterTowns with the lowest flood risk30 towns · #1 Alderholt and 8 moreBest towns for the outdoors30 towns · #1 SwanageMost historic towns30 towns · #1 BridportTowns with the most civic life30 towns · #1 Lytchett MatraversTowns with the highest household incomes32 towns · #1 PimperneDescribed, no lettersTowns with the lowest council tax32 towns · #1 Bearwood and 2 moreDescribed, no lettersTowns with the mildest winters32 towns · #1 SwanageDescribed, no lettersTowns with the warmest summers32 towns · #1 BearwoodDescribed, no lettersTowns with the coolest summers32 towns · #1 SwanageDescribed, no lettersTowns with the fewest frosts32 towns · #1 Fortuneswell and WestonDescribed, no lettersDriest towns32 towns · #1 FortuneswellDescribed, 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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