Climate averages 1991–2020
Shanghai weather
in October.
A warm, moderately wet month: the 6th warmest and the 3rd 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 Shanghai: daytime highs average 22.2°C and nights cool to about 15.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 61 mm of rain on roughly 6 days, which makes October a moderately wet month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 26 min on an average October day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Xuhui (3 km away). In October its highs average 22.4°C, about as warm as Shanghai, with 61 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Shanghai ranks joint 301st of 884 for the warmest October highs and joint 560th of 884 for the driest October (rainfall, lowest first). The mean October high of those 884 cities is 20.4°C; Shanghai is 1.9°C warmer than that mean.
From October to November, average highs fall by 5.2°C to 17.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 61 mm to 56 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
Shanghai climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.4°C1.5°C | 1.5°C | 63 | 8.4 | 10.410 h |
| February | 10.0°C2.7°C | 2.7°C | 62 | 8.8 | 11.111 h |
| March | 13.8°C6.1°C | 6.1°C | 96 | 11.3 | 12.012 h |
| April | 19.1°C11.0°C | 11.0°C | 104 | 10.2 | 12.913 h |
| May | 23.9°C16.4°C | 16.4°C | 126 | 10.0 | 13.714 h |
| June | 26.8°C20.9°C | 20.9°C | 270 | 14.4 | 14.114 h |
| July | 30.9°C25.3°C | 25.3°C | 157 | 13.9 | 14.014 h |
| August | 30.6°C25.5°C | 25.5°C | 154 | 14.8 | 13.313 h |
| September | 26.8°C21.4°C | 21.4°C | 106 | 10.8 | 12.412 h |
| October, selected | 22.2°C15.9°C | 15.9°C | 61 | 6.0 | 11.411 h |
| November | 17.1°C10.3°C | 10.3°C | 56 | 7.3 | 10.611 h |
| December | 10.9°C3.9°C | 3.9°C | 45 | 6.7 | 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
- Xuhui in OctoberChina · 3 kmHigh 22.4°C · Low 15.5°C · 61 mm rain
- Putuo in OctoberChina · 7 kmHigh 22.3°C · Low 15.7°C · 61 mm rain
- Yangpu in OctoberChina · 7 kmHigh 22.1°C · Low 16.0°C · 61 mm rain
- Minhang in OctoberChina · 15 kmHigh 22.6°C · Low 15.5°C · 58 mm rain
- Yanghang in OctoberChina · 17 kmHigh 22.1°C · Low 15.9°C · 61 mm rain
- Baoshan in OctoberChina · 21 kmHigh 22.0°C · Low 15.9°C · 57 mm rain
- Xinqiao in OctoberChina · 23 kmHigh 22.8°C · Low 15.1°C · 58 mm rain
- Luodian in OctoberChina · 24 kmHigh 22.3°C · Low 15.7°C · 55 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 Shanghai) is explained once on the Shanghai year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Putuo, Yangpu and Xuhui lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.