#1Highworth
7,932 peopleRain a year·18 days of 10 mm+·#716 of 2,537 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
Highworth, #1 on this list · Photo: Des Blenkinsopp · CC BY-SA 2.0Wiltshire rankings · Climate
Driest towns in Wiltshire
Highworth is the driest of Wiltshire’s 34 towns of 2,500+: 679 mm of rain in a typical year (Met Office, 1991–2020). The typical town here gets 782 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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#2Wroughton
7,276 peopleRain a year·19 days of 10 mm+·#1,028 of 2,537 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
#T3Bowerhill
3,976 peopleRain a year·19 days of 10 mm+·#1,066 of 2,537 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
All 34 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.
34 towns.
#TownRain a yearDays 10 mm+UK rank
Quick answers
Questions people ask
What is the driest town in Wiltshire?
Highworth: 679 mm of rain in a typical year, the most in November 70 mm. Wroughton and Bowerhill 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 Wiltshire’s towns of 2,500+ with the figure. Smaller places show it on their own pages; every town in Wiltshire 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 live30 towns · #1 RudloeBest small towns17 towns · #1 RudloeMost affordable towns30 towns · #1 WestburySafest towns30 towns · #1 RudloeTowns with the best schools30 towns · #1 MereHealthiest towns30 towns · #1 DowntonBest towns for jobs & income30 towns · #1 Broad BlunsdonMost walkable towns30 towns · #1 MarlboroughTowns with the lowest flood risk30 towns · #1 Amesbury and 10 moreBest towns for the outdoors30 towns · #1 RudloeMost historic towns30 towns · #1 WiltonTowns with the most civic life30 towns · #1 MereTowns with the highest household incomes34 towns · #1 LarkhillDescribed, no lettersTowns with the lowest council tax34 towns · #1 Broad BlunsdonDescribed, no lettersTowns with the mildest winters34 towns · #1 WroughtonDescribed, no lettersTowns with the warmest summers34 towns · #1 TrowbridgeDescribed, no lettersTowns with the coolest summers34 towns · #1 MarlboroughDescribed, no lettersTowns with the fewest frosts34 towns · #1 Stratton St MargaretDescribed, no lettersWettest towns34 towns · #1 WarminsterDescribed, 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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