#1Anstruther
3,943 peopleRain a year·15 days of 10 mm+·#684 of 2,537 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
Anstruther, #1 on this list · Photo: Richard Law · CC BY-SA 2.0Fife rankings · Climate
Driest towns in Fife
Anstruther is the driest of Fife’s 26 towns of 2,500+: 675 mm of rain in a typical year (Met Office, 1991–2020). The typical town here gets 872 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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#2Leven
10,088 peopleRain a year·16 days of 10 mm+·#758 of 2,537 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
#3Methil
10,712 peopleRain a year·15 days of 10 mm+·#973 of 2,537 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
All 26 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.
26 towns.
#TownRain a yearDays 10 mm+UK rank
Quick answers
Questions people ask
What is the driest town in Fife?
Anstruther: 675 mm of rain in a typical year, the most in July 76 mm. Leven and Methil 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 Fife’s towns of 2,500+ with the figure. Smaller places show it on their own pages; every town in Fife is on the county page.
Go deeper
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Every list ranks the same 2,500+ towns, so a town’s rank means the same thing on each.
Most affordable towns26 towns · #1 MethilTowns with the best schools26 towns · #1 TayportHealthiest towns26 towns · #1 Dalgety Bay and HillendMost walkable towns26 towns · #1 St AndrewsTowns with the lowest flood risk26 towns · #1 Buckhaven and CrossgatesTowns with the lowest council tax26 towns · #1 Anstruther and 25 moreDescribed, no lettersTowns with the mildest winters26 towns · #1 AnstrutherDescribed, no lettersTowns with the warmest summers26 towns · #1 Newport-on-Tay and WormitDescribed, no lettersTowns with the coolest summers26 towns · #1 BallingryDescribed, no lettersTowns with the fewest frosts26 towns · #1 AnstrutherDescribed, no lettersWettest towns26 towns · #1 BallingryDescribed, 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.