Crap Towns / Widnes / Weather

How often does it rain in Widnes?

It rains in Widnes on 152 days a year (at least 1 mm, on the 1991 to 2020 average), 20% higher than the typical town's 127. That makes it joint 229th wettest of the 984 towns in our table. The rain adds up to 848 mm a year, 11% higher than the typical town's 766. It gets 1,459 hours of sunshine a year, about the same as the typical town's 1,532: the 283rd gloomiest.

On the 1991 to 2020 average
A yearHereTypical town
Days of rain (at least 1 mm)152127
Rainfall (mm)848766
Hours of sunshine1,4591,532
Nearby towns
TownDistanceDays of rain a year
Haydock11.7 km160
Newton-le-Willows11.4 km160
St Helens8.5 km157
Prescot6.3 km154
Huyton with Roby9.5 km153
Liverpool13.2 km152
Widnes–152
Warrington10.1 km152
Runcorn5.6 km151
Frodsham9.0 km150
Helsby11.5 km145
The typical town–127