Crap Towns / Dorking / Weather

How often does it rain in Dorking?

It rains in Dorking on 125 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 425th driest of the 984 towns in our table. The rain adds up to 818 mm a year, 7% higher than the typical town's 766. It gets 1,646 hours of sunshine a year, 7% higher than the typical town's 1,532: the 177th sunniest.

On the 1991 to 2020 average
A yearHereTypical town
Days of rain (at least 1 mm)125127
Rainfall (mm)818766
Hours of sunshine1,6461,532
Nearby towns
TownDistanceDays of rain a year
South Merstham13.1 km128
Reigate8.8 km126
Dorking–125
Redhill10.8 km124
Tadworth and Epsom Downs11.6 km123
East Horsley9.3 km123
Ashtead9.1 km118
Cobham12.3 km118
Great Bookham and Fetcham6.7 km118
Leatherhead6.5 km118
Epsom12.1 km115
The typical town–127