Crap Towns / Blackpool / Weather

How often does it rain in Blackpool?

It rains in Blackpool on 150 days a year (at least 1 mm, on the 1991 to 2020 average), 18% higher than the typical town's 127. That makes it joint 250th wettest of the 984 towns in our table. The rain adds up to 932 mm a year, 22% higher than the typical town's 766. It gets 1,567 hours of sunshine a year, about the same as the typical town's 1,532: the 400th sunniest.

On the 1991 to 2020 average
A yearHereTypical town
Days of rain (at least 1 mm)150127
Rainfall (mm)932766
Hours of sunshine1,5671,532
Nearby towns
TownDistanceDays of rain a year
Cottam16.0 km160
Kirkham9.9 km158
Longton17.6 km154
Tarleton and Hesketh Bank16.0 km153
Poulton-le-Fylde6.4 km150
Blackpool–150
Southport18.0 km149
Cleveleys9.6 km149
Lytham St Anne's5.3 km149
Thornton8.9 km148
Fleetwood12.9 km147
The typical town–127