#1Felixstowe
24,218 peopleRain a year·12 days of 10 mm+·#18 of 2,537 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
Felixstowe, #1 on this list · Photo: Martin Pettitt · CC BY 2.0Suffolk rankings · Climate
Driest towns in Suffolk
Felixstowe is the driest of Suffolk’s 35 towns of 2,500+: 546 mm of rain in a typical year (Met Office, 1991–2020). The typical town here gets 621 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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#2Red Lodge
5,771 peopleRain a year·11 days of 10 mm+·#29 of 2,537 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
#3Newmarket
18,857 peopleRain a year·12 days of 10 mm+·#73 of 2,537 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
All 35 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.
35 towns.
#TownRain a yearDays 10 mm+UK rank
Quick answers
Questions people ask
What is the driest town in Suffolk?
Felixstowe: 546 mm of rain in a typical year, the most in October 56 mm. Red Lodge and Newmarket 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 Suffolk’s towns of 2,500+ with the figure. Smaller places show it on their own pages; every town in Suffolk 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 live34 towns · #1 KesgraveBest small towns24 towns · #1 Capel St MaryMost affordable towns34 towns · #1 KessinglandSafest towns34 towns · #1 WorlinghamTowns with the best schools34 towns · #1 GlemsfordHealthiest towns34 towns · #1 Capel St MaryBest towns for jobs & income34 towns · #1 Martlesham HeathMost walkable towns34 towns · #1 Bury St EdmundsTowns with the lowest flood risk34 towns · #1 Capel St Mary and 6 moreBest towns for the outdoors34 towns · #1 Trimley St MaryMost historic towns34 towns · #1 Long MelfordTowns with the most civic life34 towns · #1 FramlinghamTowns with the highest household incomes35 towns · #1 ThurstonDescribed, no lettersTowns with the lowest council tax35 towns · #1 WorlinghamDescribed, no lettersTowns with the mildest winters35 towns · #1 Trimley St MaryDescribed, no lettersTowns with the warmest summers35 towns · #1 Beck RowDescribed, no lettersTowns with the coolest summers35 towns · #1 KessinglandDescribed, no lettersTowns with the fewest frosts35 towns · #1 Trimley St MaryDescribed, no lettersWettest towns35 towns · #1 SaxmundhamDescribed, 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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