Crap Towns / Wantage / Weather
How often does it rain in Wantage?
It rains in Wantage on 120 days a year (at least 1 mm, on the 1991 to 2020 average), 6% lower than the typical town's 127. That makes it joint 278th driest of the 984 towns in our table. The rain adds up to 684 mm a year, 11% lower than the typical town's 766. It gets 1,589 hours of sunshine a year, about the same as the typical town's 1,532: the 332nd sunniest.
| A year | Here | Typical town |
|---|---|---|
| Days of rain (at least 1 mm) | 120 | 127 |
| Rainfall (mm) | 684 | 766 |
| Hours of sunshine | 1,589 | 1,532 |
| Town | Distance | Days of rain a year |
|---|---|---|
| Hungerford | 20.7 km | 127 |
| Highworth | 20.3 km | 124 |
| Faringdon | 13.1 km | 123 |
| Shrivenham and Watchfield | 15.2 km | 123 |
| Carterton | 21.5 km | 121 |
| Wantage | – | 120 |
| Grove | 1.8 km | 118 |
| Eynsham | 21.5 km | 117 |
| Didcot | 12.5 km | 116 |
| Abingdon-on-Thames | 14.2 km | 112 |
| Wallingford | 20.3 km | 111 |
| The typical town | – | 127 |