Climate averages 1991–2020

Remscheid weather
in October.

A cool, wet month: the joint 6th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 12.6°C Daytime mean, October
Average low 6.9°C Night-time mean, October
Rainfall 91 mm 13 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 11 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
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October is a cool month in Remscheid: daytime highs average 12.6°C and nights cool to about 6.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 6th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 91 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes October a wet month (the 7th 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 Solingen (8 km away). In October its highs average 13.3°C, 0.7°C warmer than Remscheid, with 87 mm of rain.

Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Remscheid ranks joint 115th of 120 for the warmest October highs and joint 116th of 120 for the driest October (rainfall, lowest first). The mean October high of those 120 cities is 13.8°C; Remscheid is 1.2°C cooler than that mean.

From October to November, average highs fall by 5.1°C to 7.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 91 mm to 92 mm.

The annual picture

October in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. -50510152025 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 1500

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Remscheid climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Remscheid, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 3.5°C-0.9°C-0.9°C10415.38.48 h
February 4.7°C-1.0°C-1.0°C8513.610.010 h
March 8.3°C1.1°C1.1°C8514.511.812 h
April 12.6°C4.0°C4.0°C6512.413.814 h
May 16.3°C8.0°C8.0°C7813.115.516 h
June 19.2°C11.0°C11.0°C8713.616.516 h
July 21.2°C13.3°C13.3°C10515.016.116 h
August 21.0°C13.2°C13.2°C9914.314.615 h
September 17.2°C10.2°C10.2°C8612.712.713 h
October, selected 12.6°C6.9°C6.9°C9113.410.711 h
November 7.5°C3.1°C3.1°C9214.89.09 h
December 4.2°C0.1°C0.1°C11016.68.08 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

Distance from Remscheid

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Remscheid) is explained once on the Remscheid year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.

Wuppertal lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.