Crap Towns / Chester / Weather

How often does it rain in Chester?

It rains in Chester on 133 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 394th wettest of the 984 towns in our table. The rain adds up to 727 mm a year, 5% lower than the typical town's 766. It gets 1,474 hours of sunshine a year, about the same as the typical town's 1,532: the 325th gloomiest.

On the 1991 to 2020 average
A yearHereTypical town
Days of rain (at least 1 mm)133127
Rainfall (mm)727766
Hours of sunshine1,4741,532
Nearby towns
TownDistanceDays of rain a year
Buckley12.5 km151
Frodsham16.2 km150
Gwersyllt15.7 km148
Helsby12.3 km145
Hawarden8.3 km143
Connah's Quay11.8 km141
Shotton9.7 km139
Ellesmere Port9.5 km138
Neston16.1 km137
Chester–133
Broughton6.0 km133
The typical town–127