Today
Has it rained enough in Swansea?
Rain soaked properly in 2 days ago, and the ground is still holding some of it.
Swansea has had 132.6mm of rain in the last 30 days. A normal October here brings 148.2mm, 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
3 days of 14
Thirty years
Rain in Swansea through a normal year
Across a normal year Swansea gets about 1295mm of rain, most of it in October (148.2mm) and least in April (72.9mm).
A normal October in Swansea has rain on 20 days. Only 15 of them bring enough to reach a root.
That makes Swansea the wettest place this site covers in the United Kingdom in October — 148.2mm against Cambridge's 61.4mm 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.