Climate averages 1991–2020
Mulhouse weather
in October.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 6th warmest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
October is a cool month in Mulhouse: daytime highs average 14.9°C and nights cool to about 7.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 83 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes October a moderately wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 54 min on an average October day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Basel (28 km away). In October its highs average 15.4°C, about as warm as Mulhouse, with 97 mm of rain.
Among the 57 cities listed in France, Mulhouse ranks joint 54th of 57 for the warmest October highs and 34th of 57 for the driest October (rainfall, lowest first). The mean October high of those 57 cities is 16.8°C; Mulhouse is 1.9°C cooler than that mean.
From October to November, average highs fall by 5.9°C to 9.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 83 mm to 81 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
Mulhouse climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.0°C-1.2°C | -1.2°C | 75 | 12.5 | 8.99 h |
| February | 6.5°C-1.0°C | -1.0°C | 66 | 10.7 | 10.210 h |
| March | 10.7°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 71 | 12.0 | 11.912 h |
| April | 14.7°C5.0°C | 5.0°C | 68 | 11.8 | 13.614 h |
| May | 18.4°C9.2°C | 9.2°C | 93 | 14.0 | 15.115 h |
| June | 22.1°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 80 | 13.2 | 15.916 h |
| July | 24.2°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 81 | 12.9 | 15.616 h |
| August | 24.3°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 80 | 12.0 | 14.314 h |
| September | 19.7°C11.2°C | 11.2°C | 74 | 10.9 | 12.613 h |
| October, selected | 14.9°C7.0°C | 7.0°C | 83 | 12.1 | 10.911 h |
| November | 9.0°C2.5°C | 2.5°C | 81 | 11.8 | 9.39 h |
| December | 5.4°C-0.4°C | -0.4°C | 92 | 13.2 | 8.58 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
- Basel in OctoberSwitzerland · 28 kmHigh 15.4°C · Low 6.7°C · 97 mm rain
- Freiburg in OctoberGermany · 48 kmHigh 15.4°C · Low 8.0°C · 85 mm rain
- Bern in OctoberSwitzerland · 90 kmHigh 13.9°C · Low 5.8°C · 84 mm rain
- Villingen-Schwenningen in OctoberGermany · 93 kmHigh 12.5°C · Low 5.1°C · 91 mm rain
- Strasbourg in OctoberFrance · 98 kmHigh 15.2°C · Low 7.7°C · 77 mm rain
- Zürich in OctoberSwitzerland · 101 kmHigh 14.6°C · Low 7.3°C · 103 mm rain
- Luzern in OctoberSwitzerland · 107 kmHigh 14.9°C · Low 7.9°C · 130 mm rain
- Winterthur in OctoberSwitzerland · 108 kmHigh 14.4°C · Low 6.9°C · 83 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 Mulhouse) is explained once on the Mulhouse year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.