#1Oundle
6,252 peopleRain a year·13 days of 10 mm+·#145 of 2,537 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
Oundle, #1 on this list · Photo: Jonathan Thacker · CC BY-SA 2.0Northamptonshire rankings · Climate
Driest towns in Northamptonshire
Oundle is the driest of Northamptonshire’s 31 towns of 2,500+: 591 mm of rain in a typical year (Met Office, 1991–2020). The typical town here gets 655 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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#2Wollaston
3,564 peopleRain a year·12 days of 10 mm+·#267 of 2,537 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
#T3Higham Ferrers
8,825 peopleRain a year·13 days of 10 mm+·#278 of 2,537 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
All 31 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.
31 towns.
#TownRain a yearDays 10 mm+UK rank
Quick answers
Questions people ask
What is the driest town in Northamptonshire?
Oundle: 591 mm of rain in a typical year, the most in October 60 mm. Wollaston and Higham Ferrers 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 Northamptonshire’s towns of 2,500+ with the figure. Smaller places show it on their own pages; every town in Northamptonshire 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 live31 towns · #1 BrixworthBest small towns20 towns · #1 BrixworthMost affordable towns31 towns · #1 NorthamptonSafest towns31 towns · #1 Middleton CheneyTowns with the best schools31 towns · #1 BrixworthHealthiest towns31 towns · #1 SilverstoneBest towns for jobs & income31 towns · #1 BrackleyMost walkable towns31 towns · #1 OundleTowns with the lowest flood risk31 towns · #1 Brixworth and 8 moreBest towns for the outdoors31 towns · #1 IrthlingboroughMost historic towns31 towns · #1 OundleTowns with the most civic life31 towns · #1 Long BuckbyTowns with the highest household incomes31 towns · #1 SilverstoneDescribed, no lettersTowns with the lowest council tax31 towns · #1 DesboroughDescribed, no lettersTowns with the mildest winters31 towns · #1 Higham Ferrers and IrthlingboroughDescribed, no lettersTowns with the warmest summers31 towns · #1 Higham Ferrers and IrthlingboroughDescribed, no lettersTowns with the coolest summers31 towns · #1 Desborough and RothwellDescribed, no lettersTowns with the fewest frosts31 towns · #1 NorthamptonDescribed, no lettersWettest towns31 towns · #1 Middleton CheneyDescribed, 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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