Today
Has it rained enough in Cambridge?
Rain soaked properly in 3 days ago, and the ground is still holding some of it.
Cambridge has had 67.3mm of rain in the last 30 days. A normal October here brings 61.4mm, so the ground is roughly where it should be for the time of year.
Rain reaching the roots · 14 days
17 OctToday
Reached the roots
Rain that did not
2 days of 14
Thirty years
Rain in Cambridge through a normal year
Across a normal year Cambridge gets about 643mm of rain, most of it in October (61.4mm) and least in February (43.8mm).
A normal October in Cambridge has rain on 15 days. Only 9 of them bring enough to reach a root.
That makes Cambridge the driest place this site covers in the United Kingdom in October — 61.4mm against Swansea's 148.2mm at the other end.
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Average rainfall by month, 1995–2024
What it means
What that means for what you grow
- Pots and hanging basketsWorth checking by hand even so — a pot in the sun can dry out in a wet week, because there is so little soil to hold anything.
- Beds and bordersNothing needed. Watering soil that is already wet does more harm than good.
- New plantingsAnything planted within the last month is the exception; its roots have not spread far enough to find water on their own.