Climate averages 1991–2020

Tórshavn weather
in October.

A cool, wet month: the 5th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.

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

Average high 9.1°C Daytime mean, October

Average low 6.8°C Night-time mean, October

Rainfall 117 mm 18 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 10 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

October is a cool month in Tórshavn: daytime highs average 9.1°C and nights cool to about 6.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 117 mm of rain on roughly 18 days, which makes October a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 03 min on an average October day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Aberdeen (601 km away). In October its highs average 11.6°C, 2.4°C warmer than Tórshavn, with 98 mm of rain.

From October to November, average highs fall by 1.8°C to 7.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 117 mm to 119 mm.

The annual picture

October in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

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

Every month, side by side

Tórshavn climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Tórshavn, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	5.9°C3.2°C	3.2°C	122	19.6	6.26 h
February	5.6°C2.8°C	2.8°C	97	16.9	8.89 h
March	5.9°C3.1°C	3.1°C	93	17.8	11.712 h
April	7.0°C4.2°C	4.2°C	67	13.9	14.715 h
May	8.6°C5.8°C	5.8°C	54	11.8	17.718 h
June	10.6°C7.9°C	7.9°C	46	8.9	19.520 h
July	12.2°C9.7°C	9.7°C	53	11.4	18.719 h
August	12.4°C10.0°C	10.0°C	68	11.9	16.016 h
September	11.2°C9.0°C	9.0°C	94	15.0	13.013 h
October, selected	9.1°C6.8°C	6.8°C	117	18.2	10.010 h
November	7.3°C4.8°C	4.8°C	119	19.2	7.27 h
December	6.2°C3.5°C	3.5°C	125	19.1	5.45 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

Distance from Tórshavn

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 Tórshavn) is explained once on the Tórshavn year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.