Climate averages 1991–2020
Neumünster weather
in October.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 6th warmest and the joint 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
October is a cool month in Neumünster: daytime highs average 12.7°C and nights cool to about 7.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 60 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes October a moderately wet month (the joint 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 36 min on an average October day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Kiel (29 km away). In October its highs average 12.7°C, about as warm as Neumünster, with 56 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Neumünster ranks joint 111th of 120 for the warmest October highs and joint 36th of 120 for the driest October (rainfall, lowest first). The mean October high of those 120 cities is 13.8°C; Neumünster is 1.1°C cooler than that mean.
From October to November, average highs fall by 5.2°C to 7.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 60 mm to 54 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
Neumünster climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.7°C-0.3°C | -0.3°C | 64 | 12.4 | 8.08 h |
| February | 4.5°C-0.4°C | -0.4°C | 51 | 10.3 | 9.710 h |
| March | 7.6°C1.0°C | 1.0°C | 52 | 10.6 | 11.812 h |
| April | 12.5°C4.2°C | 4.2°C | 45 | 10.2 | 14.014 h |
| May | 16.6°C8.1°C | 8.1°C | 60 | 11.1 | 16.016 h |
| June | 19.4°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 67 | 12.0 | 17.117 h |
| July | 21.7°C13.9°C | 13.9°C | 76 | 12.8 | 16.617 h |
| August | 21.4°C14.0°C | 14.0°C | 75 | 12.5 | 14.915 h |
| September | 17.7°C11.2°C | 11.2°C | 56 | 10.0 | 12.813 h |
| October, selected | 12.7°C7.4°C | 7.4°C | 60 | 11.5 | 10.611 h |
| November | 7.6°C3.6°C | 3.6°C | 54 | 11.5 | 8.69 h |
| December | 4.4°C0.8°C | 0.8°C | 65 | 12.8 | 7.57 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
- Kiel in OctoberGermany · 29 kmHigh 12.7°C · Low 7.7°C · 56 mm rain
- Norderstedt in OctoberGermany · 41 kmHigh 12.9°C · Low 7.4°C · 58 mm rain
- Lübeck in OctoberGermany · 51 kmHigh 12.8°C · Low 7.5°C · 51 mm rain
- Hamburg in OctoberGermany · 58 kmHigh 13.1°C · Low 7.3°C · 56 mm rain
- Flensburg in OctoberGermany · 87 kmHigh 12.4°C · Low 7.5°C · 65 mm rain
- Lüneburg in OctoberGermany · 96 kmHigh 13.3°C · Low 7.4°C · 52 mm rain
- Schwerin in OctoberGermany · 106 kmHigh 12.7°C · Low 7.2°C · 49 mm rain
- Bremerhaven in OctoberGermany · 109 kmHigh 13.0°C · Low 8.6°C · 65 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 Neumünster) is explained once on the Neumünster year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.