Crap Towns / Swindon / Weather

How often does it rain in Swindon?

It rains in Swindon on 124 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 414th driest of the 984 towns in our table. The rain adds up to 727 mm a year, 5% lower than the typical town's 766. It gets 1,598 hours of sunshine a year, about the same as the typical town's 1,532: joint 315th sunniest.

On the 1991 to 2020 average
A yearHereTypical town
Days of rain (at least 1 mm)124127
Rainfall (mm)727766
Hours of sunshine1,5981,532
Nearby towns
TownDistanceDays of rain a year
Marlborough17.1 km133
Calne20.0 km132
Royal Wootton Bassett7.6 km132
Cirencester19.7 km131
Broad Blunsdon4.6 km128
Wroughton4.8 km126
Stratton St Margaret4.0 km124
Swindon–124
Highworth9.1 km124
Faringdon17.4 km123
Shrivenham and Watchfield11.4 km123
The typical town–127