Crap Towns / Halifax / Weather

How often does it rain in Halifax?

It rains in Halifax on 158 days a year (at least 1 mm, on the 1991 to 2020 average), 24% higher than the typical town's 127. That makes it the 181st wettest of the 984 towns in our table. The rain adds up to 983 mm a year, 28% higher than the typical town's 766. It gets 1,329 hours of sunshine a year, 13% lower than the typical town's 1,532: the 70th gloomiest.

On the 1991 to 2020 average
A yearHereTypical town
Days of rain (at least 1 mm)158127
Rainfall (mm)983766
Hours of sunshine1,3291,532
Nearby towns
TownDistanceDays of rain a year
Hebden Bridge8.7 km171
Linthwaite and Slaithwaite11.8 km171
Queensbury4.7 km165
Elland5.8 km161
Shelf and Northowram4.1 km161
Halifax–158
Thornton7.5 km158
Huddersfield10.9 km157
Brighouse7.0 km156
Bradford10.8 km148
Cleckheaton11.1 km144
The typical town–127