Climate averages 1991–2020
Okinawa weather
in October.
A warm, wet month: the 5th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
October is a warm month in Okinawa: daytime highs average 25.4°C and nights cool to about 23.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 141 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes October a wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 33 min on an average October day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Uruma (7 km away). In October its highs average 25.9°C, 0.5°C warmer than Okinawa, with 139 mm of rain.
Among the 303 cities listed in Japan, Okinawa ranks 3rd of 303 for the warmest October highs and joint 79th of 303 for the driest October (rainfall, lowest first). The mean October high of those 303 cities is 20.4°C; Okinawa is 5.0°C warmer than that mean.
From October to November, average highs fall by 2.6°C to 22.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 141 mm to 101 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
Okinawa climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 18.0°C15.6°C | 15.6°C | 103 | 11.7 | 10.711 h |
| February | 18.2°C15.6°C | 15.6°C | 96 | 11.5 | 11.311 h |
| March | 19.6°C16.9°C | 16.9°C | 128 | 12.7 | 12.012 h |
| April | 21.6°C19.2°C | 19.2°C | 150 | 12.7 | 12.813 h |
| May | 24.1°C21.9°C | 21.9°C | 207 | 13.8 | 13.413 h |
| June | 26.7°C24.9°C | 24.9°C | 218 | 15.8 | 13.814 h |
| July | 28.4°C26.5°C | 26.5°C | 126 | 11.3 | 13.614 h |
| August | 28.4°C26.5°C | 26.5°C | 178 | 14.8 | 13.113 h |
| September | 27.5°C25.6°C | 25.6°C | 199 | 14.2 | 12.312 h |
| October, selected | 25.4°C23.6°C | 23.6°C | 141 | 11.6 | 11.612 h |
| November | 22.8°C20.9°C | 20.9°C | 101 | 10.5 | 10.911 h |
| December | 19.7°C17.5°C | 17.5°C | 113 | 11.2 | 10.511 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
- Uruma in OctoberJapan · 7 kmHigh 25.9°C · Low 24.2°C · 139 mm rain
- Naha in OctoberJapan · 18 kmHigh 26.2°C · Low 24.5°C · 141 mm rain
- Keelung in OctoberTaiwan · 622 kmHigh 25.2°C · Low 22.8°C · 204 mm rain
- Yilan, Taiwan in OctoberTaiwan · 632 kmHigh 24.7°C · Low 21.1°C · 394 mm rain
- Kanoya in OctoberJapan · 635 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 17.8°C · 120 mm rain
- Neihu in OctoberTaiwan · 638 kmHigh 25.3°C · Low 22.4°C · 213 mm rain
- Kagoshima in OctoberJapan · 640 kmHigh 23.8°C · Low 18.1°C · 109 mm rain
- Taipei in OctoberTaiwan · 645 kmHigh 25.4°C · Low 22.0°C · 213 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 Okinawa) is explained once on the Okinawa year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Naha lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.