#1Billinge
4,963 peopleRain a year·27 days of 10 mm+·#584 of 2,537 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
Billinge, #1 on this list · Photo: Rept0n1x · CC BY-SA 3.0Merseyside rankings · Climate
Wettest towns in Merseyside
Billinge is the wettest of Merseyside’s 25 towns of 2,500+: 987 mm of rain in a typical year (Met Office, 1991–2020). The typical town here gets 883 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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#2Newton-le-Willows
24,651 peopleRain a year·21 days of 10 mm+·#661 of 2,537 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
#3Rainford
5,573 peopleRain a year·24 days of 10 mm+·#672 of 2,537 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
All 25 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.
25 towns.
#TownRain a yearDays 10 mm+UK rank
Quick answers
Questions people ask
What is the wettest town in Merseyside?
Billinge: 987 mm of rain in a typical year, the most in September 104 mm. Newton-le-Willows and Rainford 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 Merseyside’s towns of 2,500+ with the figure. Smaller places show it on their own pages; every town in Merseyside 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 live25 towns · #1 GreasbyMost affordable towns25 towns · #1 BirkenheadSafest towns25 towns · #1 GreasbyTowns with the best schools25 towns · #1 HoylakeHealthiest towns25 towns · #1 West KirbyBest towns for jobs & income25 towns · #1 MeolsMost walkable towns25 towns · #1 LiverpoolTowns with the lowest flood risk25 towns · #1 Aintree and 4 moreBest towns for the outdoors25 towns · #1 LitherlandMost historic towns25 towns · #1 SouthportTowns with the most civic life25 towns · #1 RainfordTowns with the highest household incomes25 towns · #1 FormbyDescribed, no lettersTowns with the lowest council tax25 towns · #1 Haydock and Newton-le-WillowsDescribed, no lettersTowns with the mildest winters25 towns · #1 HoylakeDescribed, no lettersTowns with the warmest summers25 towns · #1 St HelensDescribed, no lettersTowns with the coolest summers25 towns · #1 FormbyDescribed, no lettersTowns with the fewest frosts25 towns · #1 MeolsDescribed, no lettersDriest towns25 towns · #1 Hoylake and MeolsDescribed, 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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