#1Queenborough
3,915 peopleRain a year·11 days of 10 mm+·#1 of 2,537 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
Queenborough, #1 on this list · Photo: Chris Whippet · CC BY-SA 2.0Kent rankings · Climate
Driest towns in Kent
Queenborough is the driest of Kent’s 87 towns of 2,500+: 521 mm of rain in a typical year (Met Office, 1991–2020). The typical town here gets 690 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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#2Sheerness
13,253 peopleRain a year·11 days of 10 mm+·#2 of 2,537 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
#3Eastchurch
3,381 peopleRain a year·11 days of 10 mm+·#9 of 2,537 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
All 87 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.
87 towns.
#TownRain a yearDays 10 mm+UK rank
Quick answers
Questions people ask
What is the driest town in Kent?
Queenborough: 521 mm of rain in a typical year, the most in November 60 mm. Sheerness and Eastchurch 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 Kent’s towns of 2,500+ with the figure. Smaller places show it on their own pages; every town in Kent 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 live87 towns · #1 HildenboroughBest small towns56 towns · #1 HildenboroughMost affordable towns87 towns · #1 SheernessSafest towns87 towns · #1 CuxtonTowns with the best schools87 towns · #1 HildenboroughHealthiest towns87 towns · #1 Otford and KemsingBest towns for jobs & income87 towns · #1 SevenoaksMost walkable towns87 towns · #1 CanterburyTowns with the lowest flood risk87 towns · #1 Ash (Dover) and 27 moreBest towns for the outdoors87 towns · #1 FolkestoneMost historic towns87 towns · #1 SandwichTowns with the most civic life87 towns · #1 Ash (Dover)Towns with the highest household incomes87 towns · #1 Kings HillDescribed, no lettersTowns with the lowest council tax87 towns · #1 GillinghamDescribed, no lettersTowns with the mildest winters87 towns · #1 SheernessDescribed, no lettersTowns with the warmest summers87 towns · #1 DartfordDescribed, no lettersTowns with the coolest summers87 towns · #1 HawkingeDescribed, no lettersTowns with the fewest frosts87 towns · #1 RamsgateDescribed, no lettersWettest towns87 towns · #1 HawkingeDescribed, 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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