Climate averages 1991–2020
Saint-Étienne weather
in October.
A mild, wet month: the 6th warmest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
October is a mild month in Saint-Étienne: daytime highs average 15.8°C and nights cool to about 8.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 95 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes October a wet month (the 11th 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 Lyon (50 km away). In October its highs average 17.2°C, 1.4°C warmer than Saint-Étienne, with 99 mm of rain.
Among the 57 cities listed in France, Saint-Étienne ranks joint 39th of 57 for the warmest October highs and joint 42nd of 57 for the driest October (rainfall, lowest first). The mean October high of those 57 cities is 16.8°C; Saint-Étienne is 1.0°C cooler than that mean.
From October to November, average highs fall by 5.7°C to 10.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 95 mm to 94 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
Saint-Étienne climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.3°C0.0°C | 0.0°C | 63 | 12.2 | 9.19 h |
| February | 7.4°C-0.2°C | -0.2°C | 49 | 10.0 | 10.410 h |
| March | 11.1°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 55 | 11.3 | 11.912 h |
| April | 14.3°C4.8°C | 4.8°C | 86 | 12.5 | 13.513 h |
| May | 18.1°C8.7°C | 8.7°C | 98 | 13.5 | 14.915 h |
| June | 22.2°C12.4°C | 12.4°C | 89 | 12.4 | 15.616 h |
| July | 24.6°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 83 | 10.4 | 15.315 h |
| August | 24.7°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 77 | 9.7 | 14.114 h |
| September | 20.2°C11.2°C | 11.2°C | 90 | 9.5 | 12.613 h |
| October, selected | 15.8°C8.2°C | 8.2°C | 95 | 11.5 | 11.011 h |
| November | 10.1°C3.7°C | 3.7°C | 94 | 12.3 | 9.610 h |
| December | 7.0°C1.1°C | 1.1°C | 64 | 11.4 | 8.89 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
- Lyon in OctoberFrance · 50 kmHigh 17.2°C · Low 9.3°C · 99 mm rain
- Villeurbanne in OctoberFrance · 53 kmHigh 17.0°C · Low 9.3°C · 100 mm rain
- Grenoble in OctoberFrance · 107 kmHigh 17.5°C · Low 8.8°C · 118 mm rain
- Clermont-Ferrand in OctoberFrance · 108 kmHigh 16.0°C · Low 7.9°C · 76 mm rain
- Geneva in OctoberSwitzerland · 161 kmHigh 15.8°C · Low 7.5°C · 112 mm rain
- Avignon in OctoberFrance · 168 kmHigh 20.0°C · Low 11.5°C · 97 mm rain
- Nîmes in OctoberFrance · 178 kmHigh 19.8°C · Low 11.8°C · 106 mm rain
- Montpellier in OctoberFrance · 207 kmHigh 19.0°C · Low 12.5°C · 114 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 Saint-Étienne) is explained once on the Saint-Étienne year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.