Climate averages 1991–2020
Saarbrücken 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 Saarbrücken: daytime highs average 14.5°C and nights cool to about 8.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 71 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes October a moderately wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 50 min on an average October day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Kaiserslautern (60 km away). In October its highs average 14.3°C, about as warm as Saarbrücken, with 62 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Saarbrücken ranks joint 12th of 120 for the warmest October highs and joint 87th of 120 for the driest October (rainfall, lowest first). The mean October high of those 120 cities is 13.8°C; Saarbrücken is 0.7°C warmer than that mean.
From October to November, average highs fall by 5.6°C to 8.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 71 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
Saarbrücken climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 4.9°C0.0°C | 0.0°C | 79 | 12.6 | 8.79 h |
| February | 6.3°C0.0°C | 0.0°C | 68 | 10.6 | 10.110 h |
| March | 10.2°C2.4°C | 2.4°C | 70 | 11.7 | 11.912 h |
| April | 14.4°C5.4°C | 5.4°C | 54 | 10.4 | 13.714 h |
| May | 18.2°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 68 | 12.0 | 15.315 h |
| June | 21.7°C12.8°C | 12.8°C | 58 | 10.8 | 16.216 h |
| July | 23.9°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 61 | 10.8 | 15.816 h |
| August | 23.9°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 60 | 10.7 | 14.414 h |
| September | 19.5°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 64 | 9.5 | 12.713 h |
| October, selected | 14.5°C8.0°C | 8.0°C | 71 | 11.5 | 10.811 h |
| November | 8.9°C3.9°C | 3.9°C | 75 | 12.5 | 9.29 h |
| December | 5.5°C1.1°C | 1.1°C | 99 | 14.4 | 8.38 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
- Kaiserslautern in OctoberGermany · 60 kmHigh 14.3°C · Low 8.0°C · 62 mm rain
- Metz in OctoberFrance · 62 kmHigh 14.8°C · Low 8.1°C · 69 mm rain
- Trier in OctoberGermany · 64 kmHigh 14.2°C · Low 7.6°C · 73 mm rain
- Luxembourg in OctoberLuxembourg · 76 kmHigh 13.9°C · Low 7.3°C · 67 mm rain
- Nancy in OctoberFrance · 86 kmHigh 15.0°C · Low 8.1°C · 72 mm rain
- Strasbourg in OctoberFrance · 90 kmHigh 15.2°C · Low 7.7°C · 77 mm rain
- Karlsruhe in OctoberGermany · 104 kmHigh 15.3°C · Low 8.1°C · 66 mm rain
- Worms in OctoberGermany · 107 kmHigh 14.7°C · Low 7.4°C · 53 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 Saarbrücken) is explained once on the Saarbrücken year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.