Crap Towns / Portsmouth / Weather

How often does it rain in Portsmouth?

It rains in Portsmouth 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 212th driest of the 984 towns in our table. The rain adds up to 772 mm a year, about the same as the typical town's 766. It gets 1,690 hours of sunshine a year, 10% higher than the typical town's 1,532: the 103rd sunniest.

On the 1991 to 2020 average
A yearHereTypical town
Days of rain (at least 1 mm)118127
Rainfall (mm)772766
Hours of sunshine1,6901,532
Nearby towns
TownDistanceDays of rain a year
Horndean10.7 km130
Denmead8.9 km126
Waterlooville6.9 km124
Emsworth10.0 km122
Fareham9.2 km121
Gosport6.0 km121
Ryde12.7 km119
Havant7.3 km119
Portsmouth–118
Lee-on-the-Solent9.9 km117
South Hayling7.9 km114
The typical town–127