Crap Towns / Reading / Weather
How often does it rain in Reading?
It rains in Reading on 115 days a year (at least 1 mm, on the 1991 to 2020 average), 9% lower than the typical town's 127. That makes it joint 147th driest of the 984 towns in our table. The rain adds up to 663 mm a year, 13% lower than the typical town's 766. It gets 1,582 hours of sunshine a year, about the same as the typical town's 1,532: the 361st sunniest.
| A year | Here | Typical town |
|---|---|---|
| Days of rain (at least 1 mm) | 115 | 127 |
| Rainfall (mm) | 663 | 766 |
| Hours of sunshine | 1,582 | 1,532 |
| Town | Distance | Days of rain a year |
|---|---|---|
| Sonning Common | 8.7 km | 125 |
| Henley-on-Thames | 10.8 km | 121 |
| Burghfield Common | 8.8 km | 120 |
| Spencers Wood and Three Mile Cross | 5.1 km | 118 |
| Twyford | 8.3 km | 118 |
| Caversham | 4.1 km | 117 |
| Wokingham | 9.6 km | 116 |
| Reading | – | 115 |
| Shinfield | 3.9 km | 115 |
| Woodley | 4.4 km | 115 |
| Winnersh | 5.9 km | 114 |
| The typical town | – | 127 |