Climate averages 1991–2020

Dalai weather
in October.

A cool, fairly dry month: the 7th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 12.3°C Daytime mean, October
Average low 4.0°C Night-time mean, October
Rainfall 26 mm 5 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 11 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Dalai · average highYear overview

October is a cool month in Dalai: daytime highs average 12.3°C and nights cool to about 4.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 26 mm of rain on roughly 5 days, which makes October a fairly dry month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 59 min on an average October day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Fuyu (Jilin), China (54 km away). In October its highs average 12.7°C, about as warm as Dalai, with 29 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Dalai ranks joint 813th of 884 for the warmest October highs and joint 60th of 884 for the driest October (rainfall, lowest first). The mean October high of those 884 cities is 20.4°C; Dalai is 8.1°C cooler than that mean.

From October to November, average highs fall by 11.7°C to 0.6°C, and monthly precipitation falls from 26 mm to 9.8 mm.

The annual picture

October in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. -25-20-15-10-505101520253035 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly precipitation

Average total · mm
Average monthly precipitation totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 1500

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Dalai climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Dalai, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowPrecipitation mm/monthWet days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January -11.1°C-19.9°C-19.9°C2.10.89.19 h
February -5.1°C-15.6°C-15.6°C2.50.710.310 h
March 3.9°C-7.0°C-7.0°C9.22.111.912 h
April 13.8°C1.1°C1.1°C193.513.513 h
May 21.2°C8.9°C8.9°C456.614.915 h
June 26.4°C15.9°C15.9°C7810.015.616 h
July 28.2°C20.1°C20.1°C12012.215.315 h
August 26.6°C18.7°C18.7°C9710.514.114 h
September 21.3°C12.4°C12.4°C496.912.613 h
October, selected 12.3°C4.0°C4.0°C264.911.011 h
November 0.6°C-5.8°C-5.8°C9.82.49.610 h
December -9.0°C-16.8°C-16.8°C4.71.58.89 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

Distance from Dalai

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Dalai) is explained once on the Dalai year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.