Today
Has it rained enough in Milton Keynes?
Rain soaked properly in 3 days ago, and the ground is still holding some of it.
Milton Keynes has had 90mm of rain in the last 30 days. A normal October here brings 66.6mm, so the ground is roughly where it should be for the time of year.
Rain reaching the roots · 14 days
17 OctToday
Thirty years
Rain in Milton Keynes through a normal year
Across a normal year Milton Keynes gets about 678.1mm of rain, most of it in October (66.6mm) and least in February (45.9mm).
A normal October in Milton Keynes has rain on 15 days. Only 9 of them bring enough to reach a root.
That makes Milton Keynes one of the drier places this site covers in the United Kingdom in October — 35th of 40, against Swansea at the wet end (148.2mm) and Cambridge at the dry end (61.4mm).
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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.