Ranking
Driest countries by average rainfall
The lowest long-term average annual precipitation.
Definition and method
- Metric
- Annual precipitation
- Definition
- Total depth of precipitation falling over a defined area in a calendar or water year.
- Unit
- mm
- Period
- 2025
- Basis
- Spatially aggregated
- Source
- Met Office — HadUK-Grid gridded climate observations
- Coverage
- 1 of 205 countries and territoriesPlaces without a held value are absent from the ranking, not ranked last.
- Methodology
- National figures are area-weighted means of gridded fields interpolated from gauge networks, sometimes blended with radar or satellite estimates.
Driest countries by average rainfall
Hydrionis holds this measure for one country, so there is nothing here to rank it against.
View the data behind this chart
| Subject | Value (mm) | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1,061 | — |