Climate averages 1991–2020
Köln weather
in October.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 6th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
October is a cool month in Köln: daytime highs average 14.3°C and nights cool to about 8.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 83 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes October a moderately wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 45 min on an average October day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Leverkusen (11 km away). In October its highs average 14.4°C, about as warm as Köln, with 83 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Köln ranks joint 27th of 120 for the warmest October highs and joint 109th of 120 for the driest October (rainfall, lowest first). The mean October high of those 120 cities is 13.8°C; Köln is 0.5°C warmer than that mean.
From October to November, average highs fall by 5.2°C to 9.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 83 mm to 85 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
Köln climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.2°C0.5°C | 0.5°C | 90 | 14.8 | 8.58 h |
| February | 6.4°C0.5°C | 0.5°C | 74 | 12.8 | 10.010 h |
| March | 10.0°C2.3°C | 2.3°C | 73 | 13.7 | 11.812 h |
| April | 14.2°C5.1°C | 5.1°C | 52 | 10.8 | 13.814 h |
| May | 18.0°C9.1°C | 9.1°C | 62 | 11.9 | 15.516 h |
| June | 20.9°C12.3°C | 12.3°C | 70 | 12.2 | 16.416 h |
| July | 23.0°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 80 | 13.1 | 16.016 h |
| August | 22.9°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 80 | 11.9 | 14.615 h |
| September | 19.1°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 71 | 11.3 | 12.713 h |
| October, selected | 14.3°C8.1°C | 8.1°C | 83 | 12.8 | 10.811 h |
| November | 9.1°C4.3°C | 4.3°C | 85 | 14.2 | 9.09 h |
| December | 5.8°C1.5°C | 1.5°C | 101 | 16.0 | 8.08 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
- Leverkusen in OctoberGermany · 11 kmHigh 14.4°C · Low 8.3°C · 83 mm rain
- Bergisch Gladbach in OctoberGermany · 14 kmHigh 14.1°C · Low 8.1°C · 93 mm rain
- Troisdorf in OctoberGermany · 20 kmHigh 14.4°C · Low 8.2°C · 74 mm rain
- Bonn in OctoberGermany · 24 kmHigh 14.5°C · Low 8.3°C · 65 mm rain
- Solingen in OctoberGermany · 28 kmHigh 13.3°C · Low 7.6°C · 87 mm rain
- Remscheid in OctoberGermany · 32 kmHigh 12.6°C · Low 6.9°C · 91 mm rain
- Düsseldorf in OctoberGermany · 34 kmHigh 14.5°C · Low 8.3°C · 77 mm rain
- Neuss in OctoberGermany · 35 kmHigh 14.5°C · Low 8.4°C · 77 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 Köln) is explained once on the Köln year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Leverkusen lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.