Crap Towns / Taunton / Weather

How often does it rain in Taunton?

It rains in Taunton on 133 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 399th wettest of the 984 towns in our table. The rain adds up to 794 mm a year, about the same as the typical town's 766. It gets 1,560 hours of sunshine a year, about the same as the typical town's 1,532: the 417th sunniest.

On the 1991 to 2020 average
A yearHereTypical town
Days of rain (at least 1 mm)133127
Rainfall (mm)794766
Hours of sunshine1,5601,532
Nearby towns
TownDistanceDays of rain a year
Wellington9.8 km142
Chard18.8 km142
Cullompton27.4 km139
Honiton25.7 km138
Highbridge24.3 km133
Taunton–133
Burnham-on-Sea26.0 km133
Ilminster16.9 km133
Bridgwater13.7 km129
Crewkerne26.5 km129
Somerton25.7 km125
The typical town–127