Climate averages 1991–2020
Waterloo weather
in October.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 6th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
October is a cool month in Waterloo: daytime highs average 13.4°C and nights cool to about 5.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 80 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes October a moderately wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 04 min on an average October day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Kitchener (5 km away). In October its highs average 13.5°C, about as warm as Waterloo, with 80 mm of rain.
Among the 86 cities listed in Canada, Waterloo ranks joint 31st of 86 for the warmest October highs and joint 28th of 86 for the driest October (rainfall, lowest first). The mean October high of those 86 cities is 12.7°C; Waterloo is 0.7°C warmer than that mean.
From October to November, average highs fall by 7.1°C to 6.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 80 mm to 74 mm.
The annual picture
October in context
Monthly precipitation
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Waterloo climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -2.4°C-10.4°C | -10.4°C | 68 | 11.5 | 9.49 h |
| February | -1.4°C-10.9°C | -10.9°C | 55 | 9.2 | 10.510 h |
| March | 4.0°C-5.8°C | -5.8°C | 63 | 10.0 | 11.912 h |
| April | 11.1°C0.8°C | 0.8°C | 86 | 11.8 | 13.413 h |
| May | 18.3°C7.8°C | 7.8°C | 88 | 11.6 | 14.715 h |
| June | 23.2°C13.5°C | 13.5°C | 94 | 11.4 | 15.415 h |
| July | 25.4°C16.1°C | 16.1°C | 85 | 11.0 | 15.115 h |
| August | 24.4°C15.5°C | 15.5°C | 76 | 9.9 | 14.014 h |
| September | 20.6°C11.9°C | 11.9°C | 79 | 9.5 | 12.613 h |
| October, selected | 13.4°C5.7°C | 5.7°C | 80 | 11.3 | 11.111 h |
| November | 6.3°C-0.4°C | -0.4°C | 74 | 11.2 | 9.710 h |
| December | 0.6°C-5.8°C | -5.8°C | 65 | 11.5 | 9.09 h |
Precipitation (rain or snow, as water) is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A wet day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.
Compare places
October in nearby cities
- Kitchener in OctoberCanada · 5 kmHigh 13.5°C · Low 5.5°C · 80 mm rain
- Cambridge, Canada in OctoberCanada · 20 kmHigh 13.9°C · Low 6.1°C · 77 mm rain
- Guelph in OctoberCanada · 23 kmHigh 13.4°C · Low 5.7°C · 78 mm rain
- Brantford in OctoberCanada · 42 kmHigh 14.4°C · Low 6.9°C · 77 mm rain
- Milton in OctoberCanada · 51 kmHigh 14.2°C · Low 7.3°C · 76 mm rain
- Burlington in OctoberCanada · 56 kmHigh 14.3°C · Low 8.0°C · 83 mm rain
- Hamilton in OctoberCanada · 59 kmHigh 14.6°C · Low 8.9°C · 85 mm rain
- Caledon in OctoberCanada · 61 kmHigh 12.6°C · Low 5.1°C · 76 mm rain
Read the numbers correctly
Climate, not a promise.
These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.
Sources, method and limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Waterloo) is explained once on the Waterloo year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Kitchener lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.