#1Shepton Mallet
9,645 peopleRain a year·31 days of 10 mm+·#370 of 2,537 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
Shepton Mallet, #1 on this list · Photo: Jonathan Thacker · CC BY-SA 2.0Somerset rankings · Climate
Wettest towns in Somerset
Shepton Mallet is the wettest of Somerset’s 49 towns of 2,500+: 1,117 mm of rain in a typical year (Met Office, 1991–2020). The typical town here gets 882 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.
#11,117mm
#2Chard
14,287 peopleRain a year·35 days of 10 mm+·#398 of 2,537 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
#3Minehead
11,752 peopleRain a year·24 days of 10 mm+·#405 of 2,537 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
All 49 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.
49 towns.
#TownRain a yearDays 10 mm+UK rank
Quick answers
Questions people ask
What is the wettest town in Somerset?
Shepton Mallet: 1,117 mm of rain in a typical year, the most in November 121 mm. Chard and Minehead 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 Somerset’s towns of 2,500+ with the figure. Smaller places show it on their own pages; every town in Somerset 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 live49 towns · #1 BackwellBest small towns32 towns · #1 BackwellMost affordable towns49 towns · #1 Street and YeovilSafest towns49 towns · #1 Saltford and BatheastonTowns with the best schools49 towns · #1 LangportHealthiest towns49 towns · #1 BackwellBest towns for jobs & income49 towns · #1 BackwellMost walkable towns49 towns · #1 BathTowns with the lowest flood risk49 towns · #1 Castle Cary and 2 moreBest towns for the outdoors49 towns · #1 MineheadMost historic towns49 towns · #1 BathTowns with the most civic life49 towns · #1 South PethertonTowns with the highest household incomes49 towns · #1 BatheastonDescribed, no lettersTowns with the lowest council tax49 towns · #1 BathDescribed, no lettersTowns with the mildest winters49 towns · #1 MineheadDescribed, no lettersTowns with the warmest summers49 towns · #1 SomertonDescribed, no lettersTowns with the coolest summers49 towns · #1 MineheadDescribed, no lettersTowns with the fewest frosts49 towns · #1 MineheadDescribed, no lettersDriest towns49 towns · #1 SomertonDescribed, 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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