Crap Towns / Northampton / Weather

How often does it rain in Northampton?

It rains in Northampton on 118 days a year (at least 1 mm, on the 1991 to 2020 average), 7% lower than the typical town's 127. That makes it joint 204th driest of the 984 towns in our table. The rain adds up to 646 mm a year, 16% lower than the typical town's 766. It gets 1,535 hours of sunshine a year, about the same as the typical town's 1,532: the 480th sunniest.

On the 1991 to 2020 average
A yearHereTypical town
Days of rain (at least 1 mm)118127
Rainfall (mm)646766
Hours of sunshine1,5351,532
Nearby towns
TownDistanceDays of rain a year
Daventry18.8 km123
Brixworth9.8 km121
Newport Pagnell20.8 km120
Towcester13.7 km120
Earls Barton10.5 km120
Rushden21.1 km118
Burton Latimer20.2 km118
Northampton–118
Kettering21.3 km118
Wellingborough15.2 km117
Olney15.7 km115
The typical town–127