Crap Towns / Cambridge / Weather

How often does it rain in Cambridge?

It rains in Cambridge on 107 days a year (at least 1 mm, on the 1991 to 2020 average), 16% lower than the typical town's 127. That makes it the 19th driest of the 984 towns in our table. The rain adds up to 565 mm a year, 26% lower than the typical town's 766. It gets 1,528 hours of sunshine a year, about the same as the typical town's 1,532: the 480th gloomiest.

On the 1991 to 2020 average
A yearHereTypical town
Days of rain (at least 1 mm)107127
Rainfall (mm)565766
Hours of sunshine1,5281,532
Nearby towns
TownDistanceDays of rain a year
Newmarket19.2 km115
Soham20.0 km113
Sawston9.3 km113
Burwell15.4 km111
Waterbeach8.3 km111
Cambourne14.2 km111
Cottenham9.0 km109
Great Shelford and Stapleford6.0 km108
Cambridge–107
Longstanton and Northstowe9.9 km106
Histon and Impington5.5 km104
The typical town–127