Climate averages 1991–2020
Freiburg weather
in October.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 6th warmest and the 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
October is a mild month in Freiburg: daytime highs average 15.4°C and nights cool to about 8.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 85 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes October a moderately wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 53 min on an average October day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Mulhouse (48 km away). In October its highs average 14.9°C, about as warm as Freiburg, with 83 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Freiburg ranks 1st of 120 for the warmest October highs and 112th of 120 for the driest October (rainfall, lowest first). The mean October high of those 120 cities is 13.8°C; Freiburg is 1.6°C warmer than that mean.
From October to November, average highs fall by 5.9°C to 9.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 85 mm to 89 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
Freiburg climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.3°C-1.2°C | -1.2°C | 91 | 13.3 | 8.99 h |
| February | 6.5°C-1.1°C | -1.1°C | 77 | 11.5 | 10.210 h |
| March | 10.7°C2.1°C | 2.1°C | 83 | 13.3 | 11.912 h |
| April | 15.1°C5.6°C | 5.6°C | 74 | 13.1 | 13.614 h |
| May | 18.9°C9.9°C | 9.9°C | 105 | 15.4 | 15.115 h |
| June | 22.4°C13.5°C | 13.5°C | 89 | 14.2 | 16.016 h |
| July | 24.4°C15.5°C | 15.5°C | 89 | 13.5 | 15.616 h |
| August | 24.4°C15.6°C | 15.6°C | 81 | 12.3 | 14.314 h |
| September | 20.0°C11.8°C | 11.8°C | 77 | 11.3 | 12.613 h |
| October, selected | 15.4°C8.0°C | 8.0°C | 85 | 12.2 | 10.911 h |
| November | 9.5°C3.2°C | 3.2°C | 89 | 12.4 | 9.39 h |
| December | 5.8°C0.2°C | 0.2°C | 108 | 14.4 | 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
- Mulhouse in OctoberFrance · 48 kmHigh 14.9°C · Low 7.0°C · 83 mm rain
- Villingen-Schwenningen in OctoberGermany · 48 kmHigh 12.5°C · Low 5.1°C · 91 mm rain
- Basel in OctoberSwitzerland · 53 kmHigh 15.4°C · Low 6.7°C · 97 mm rain
- Strasbourg in OctoberFrance · 66 kmHigh 15.2°C · Low 7.7°C · 77 mm rain
- Winterthur in OctoberSwitzerland · 85 kmHigh 14.4°C · Low 6.9°C · 83 mm rain
- Zürich in OctoberSwitzerland · 87 kmHigh 14.6°C · Low 7.3°C · 103 mm rain
- Konstanz in OctoberGermany · 106 kmHigh 14.1°C · Low 8.6°C · 83 mm rain
- Tübingen in OctoberGermany · 106 kmHigh 14.6°C · Low 6.7°C · 69 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 Freiburg) is explained once on the Freiburg year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.