Average Rainfall for the United Kingdom in October

The tables below give monthly averages for rainfall during October at cities and towns in the United Kingdom.

Each place has a total for how many days of wet weather it usually gets this month and for the normal amount of precipitation. The calculation of days only includes the days when precipitation totalled at least one millimetre (0.04 inches).

The month's total rainfall is an average of weather data collected from 1991 to 2020.

In October, the entire UK averages 15 days of rain, totalling 123 millimetres (4.8 inches).

Southern England

Average monthly precipitation in October
Days	Place	Inches	Millimetres
12	Birmingham	3.2	81
12	Bristol	3.2	82
–	Dover	3.9	99
14	Isles of Scilly	3.5	89
10	London, Greenwich	2.3	58
11	London, Kew Gardens	2.7	68
11	Norwich	2.8	70
11	Nottingham	2.8	72
15	Plymouth	4.4	112
12	Southampton	3.6	93
12	Stoke-on-Trent	3.2	82
12	Weymouth	3.3	83
12	Worthing	3.2	82

Northern England

October averages for total rainfall
Days	Place	Inches	Millimetres
–	Ambleside, Windermere Lake	8.8	224
–	Berwick-upon-Tweed	2.6	65
14	Dumfries	5.0	126
11	Hull	2.6	66
14	Liverpool	3.5	90
15	Manchester	3.6	92
–	Middlesbrough	2.3	59
12	Newcastle upon Tyne	3.9	100
15	Prestwick	4.2	106
15	Rochester, Northumberland Park	3.6	92
13	Sheffield	3.1	79

Wales

Average amount of rain in October
Days	Place	Inches	Millimetres
15	Cardiff	5.1	129
16	Harlech	4.7	119
–	Llandrindod Wells	4.6	118
14	Rhyl	3.5	89
15	Swansea	4.4	113

Scotland

Precipitation totals for October
Days	Place	Inches	Millimetres
14	Aberdeen	3.9	100
12	Dundee	3.4	85
12	Edinburgh	3.0	76
16	Glasgow	5.2	132
14	Inverness	3.1	78
19	Kirkwall, Orkney Islands	4.7	120
20	Lerwick, Shetland Islands	5.1	131
20	Stornoway, Outer Hebrides	5.2	133
19	Tiree, Inner Hebrides	5.7	144

Northern Ireland

Total precipitation during October
Days	Place	Inches	Millimetres
13	Armagh	3.2	81
14	Belfast	3.8	96
16	Castlederg	4.4	112
16	Londonderry	3.3	83
14	Warrenpoint	4.0	100

Average October Rainfall for the United Kingdom

Southern England

Northern England

Wales

Scotland

Northern Ireland

Reference

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