#1Caister-on-Sea
9,095 peopleRain a year·12 days of 10 mm+·#60 of 2,537 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
Caister-on-Sea, #1 on this list · Photo: A. R. Yeo MortimerCat · CC BY 2.5Norfolk rankings · Climate
Driest towns in Norfolk
Caister-on-Sea is the driest of Norfolk’s 52 towns of 2,500+: 567 mm of rain in a typical year (Met Office, 1991–2020). The typical town here gets 646 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.
#1567mm
#2Great Yarmouth
28,979 peopleRain a year·11 days of 10 mm+·#112 of 2,537 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
#3Upwell and Outwell
3,664 peopleRain a year·12 days of 10 mm+·#122 of 2,537 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
All 52 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.
52 towns.
#TownRain a yearDays 10 mm+UK rank
Quick answers
Questions people ask
What is the driest town in Norfolk?
Caister-on-Sea: 567 mm of rain in a typical year, the most in October 64 mm. Great Yarmouth and Upwell and Outwell 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 Norfolk’s towns of 2,500+ with the figure. Smaller places show it on their own pages; every town in Norfolk 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.
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County by county
Driest towns, county by county
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