Climate averages 1991–2020
Hangzhou weather
in October.
A warm, moderately wet month: the 6th warmest and one of the driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
October is a warm month in Hangzhou: daytime highs average 23.0°C and nights cool to about 15.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 59 mm of rain on roughly 6 days, which makes October a moderately wet month (one of the driest months of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 28 min on an average October day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Xiaoshan (17 km away). In October its highs average 23.2°C, about as warm as Hangzhou, with 59 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Hangzhou ranks joint 205th of 884 for the warmest October highs and joint 537th of 884 for the driest October (rainfall, lowest first). The mean October high of those 884 cities is 20.4°C; Hangzhou is 2.6°C warmer than that mean.
From October to November, average highs fall by 5.6°C to 17.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 59 mm to 65 mm.
The annual picture
October in context
Monthly rainfall
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
Hangzhou climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.7°C1.1°C | 1.1°C | 80 | 10.3 | 10.410 h |
| February | 11.1°C2.8°C | 2.8°C | 74 | 10.0 | 11.111 h |
| March | 15.5°C6.5°C | 6.5°C | 119 | 13.5 | 12.012 h |
| April | 21.3°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 131 | 12.1 | 12.913 h |
| May | 25.9°C16.9°C | 16.9°C | 156 | 12.2 | 13.714 h |
| June | 28.3°C21.1°C | 21.1°C | 303 | 16.2 | 14.114 h |
| July | 32.8°C25.3°C | 25.3°C | 173 | 12.9 | 13.914 h |
| August | 32.3°C25.1°C | 25.1°C | 140 | 14.8 | 13.213 h |
| September | 27.9°C20.7°C | 20.7°C | 98 | 10.1 | 12.412 h |
| October, selected | 23.0°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 59 | 6.3 | 11.511 h |
| November | 17.4°C9.2°C | 9.2°C | 65 | 8.5 | 10.711 h |
| December | 11.2°C3.0°C | 3.0°C | 59 | 7.5 | 10.210 h |
Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain 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
- Xiaoshan in OctoberChina · 17 kmHigh 23.2°C · Low 15.2°C · 59 mm rain
- Linping in OctoberChina · 19 kmHigh 23.1°C · Low 14.9°C · 59 mm rain
- Fuyang, China in OctoberChina · 33 kmHigh 23.1°C · Low 15.4°C · 66 mm rain
- Deqing in OctoberChina · 34 kmHigh 22.8°C · Low 14.5°C · 69 mm rain
- Chóngfú in OctoberChina · 37 kmHigh 23.1°C · Low 15.1°C · 58 mm rain
- Shaoxing in OctoberChina · 52 kmHigh 23.2°C · Low 15.4°C · 66 mm rain
- Haining in OctoberChina · 57 kmHigh 22.6°C · Low 16.5°C · 66 mm rain
- Zhuji in OctoberChina · 64 kmHigh 23.4°C · Low 15.3°C · 61 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 Hangzhou) is explained once on the Hangzhou year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Xiaoshan lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.