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How often does it rain in Blandford Forum?

It rains in Blandford Forum on 128 days a year (at least 1 mm, on the 1991 to 2020 average), about the same as the typical town's 127. That makes it joint 483rd wettest of the 984 towns in our table. The rain adds up to 939 mm a year, 23% higher than the typical town's 766. It gets 1,570 hours of sunshine a year, about the same as the typical town's 1,532: joint 389th sunniest.

On the 1991 to 2020 average
A yearHereTypical town
Days of rain (at least 1 mm)128127
Rainfall (mm)939766
Hours of sunshine1,5701,532
Nearby towns
TownDistanceDays of rain a year
Shaftesbury16.5 km137
Verwood20.0 km132
Wimborne Minster15.2 km129
Corfe Mullen14.6 km129
Merley16.2 km128
Blandford Forum–128
Ferndown19.5 km127
West Moors20.1 km125
Upton16.7 km125
Wool19.4 km125
Wareham19.2 km122
The typical town–127