Climate averages 1991–2020
Recklinghausen weather
in October.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 7th warmest and the joint 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
October is a cool month in Recklinghausen: daytime highs average 14.0°C and nights cool to about 8.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 74 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes October a moderately wet month (the joint 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 43 min on an average October day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Marl (9 km away). In October its highs average 14.0°C, about as warm as Recklinghausen, with 67 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Recklinghausen ranks joint 47th of 120 for the warmest October highs and joint 98th of 120 for the driest October (rainfall, lowest first). The mean October high of those 120 cities is 13.8°C; Recklinghausen is 0.2°C warmer than that mean.
From October to November, average highs fall by 5.1°C to 8.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 74 mm to 75 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
Recklinghausen climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 4.9°C0.3°C | 0.3°C | 83 | 14.4 | 8.48 h |
| February | 6.1°C0.4°C | 0.4°C | 69 | 12.5 | 9.910 h |
| March | 9.7°C2.3°C | 2.3°C | 71 | 13.5 | 11.812 h |
| April | 14.1°C5.0°C | 5.0°C | 55 | 11.5 | 13.814 h |
| May | 17.8°C9.0°C | 9.0°C | 67 | 12.4 | 15.616 h |
| June | 20.7°C12.1°C | 12.1°C | 74 | 12.6 | 16.617 h |
| July | 22.8°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 89 | 14.0 | 16.216 h |
| August | 22.6°C14.3°C | 14.3°C | 85 | 13.3 | 14.615 h |
| September | 18.8°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 74 | 11.7 | 12.713 h |
| October, selected | 14.0°C8.0°C | 8.0°C | 74 | 12.5 | 10.711 h |
| November | 8.9°C4.2°C | 4.2°C | 75 | 13.7 | 8.99 h |
| December | 5.5°C1.3°C | 1.3°C | 89 | 15.0 | 7.98 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
- Marl in OctoberGermany · 9 kmHigh 14.0°C · Low 8.1°C · 67 mm rain
- Castrop-Rauxel in OctoberGermany · 10 kmHigh 14.0°C · Low 8.0°C · 74 mm rain
- Gelsenkirchen in OctoberGermany · 14 kmHigh 14.2°C · Low 8.2°C · 71 mm rain
- Bochum in OctoberGermany · 15 kmHigh 13.9°C · Low 7.9°C · 74 mm rain
- Gladbeck in OctoberGermany · 15 kmHigh 14.1°C · Low 8.1°C · 71 mm rain
- Dorsten in OctoberGermany · 17 kmHigh 14.1°C · Low 8.3°C · 67 mm rain
- Dortmund in OctoberGermany · 22 kmHigh 13.8°C · Low 8.0°C · 74 mm rain
- Essen in OctoberGermany · 22 kmHigh 14.0°C · Low 8.0°C · 71 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 Recklinghausen) is explained once on the Recklinghausen year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Bochum, Witten and Castrop-Rauxel lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.