Climate averages 1991–2020
Bergen weather
in October.
A cool, very wet month: the 6th warmest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
October is a cool month in Bergen: daytime highs average 9.7°C and nights cool to about 5.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 259 mm of rain on roughly 19 days, which makes October a very wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 11 min on an average October day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Stavanger (160 km away). In October its highs average 10.4°C, 0.7°C warmer than Bergen, with 221 mm of rain.
Among the 8 cities listed in Norway, Bergen ranks 4th of 8 for the warmest October highs and 8th of 8 for the driest October (rainfall, lowest first). The mean October high of those 8 cities is 9.4°C; Bergen is 0.3°C warmer than that mean.
From October to November, average highs fall by 4.4°C to 5.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 259 mm to 257 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
Bergen climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 2.4°C-1.2°C | -1.2°C | 249 | 20.3 | 6.77 h |
| February | 2.6°C-1.7°C | -1.7°C | 211 | 17.4 | 9.09 h |
| March | 4.6°C-0.4°C | -0.4°C | 192 | 18.3 | 11.712 h |
| April | 8.6°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 133 | 15.3 | 14.615 h |
| May | 12.2°C5.6°C | 5.6°C | 116 | 14.0 | 17.217 h |
| June | 15.0°C9.0°C | 9.0°C | 121 | 14.1 | 18.819 h |
| July | 17.1°C11.3°C | 11.3°C | 149 | 16.4 | 18.118 h |
| August | 17.1°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 188 | 17.3 | 15.716 h |
| September | 14.2°C9.1°C | 9.1°C | 249 | 17.7 | 13.013 h |
| October, selected | 9.7°C5.1°C | 5.1°C | 259 | 19.3 | 10.210 h |
| November | 5.3°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 257 | 18.9 | 7.58 h |
| December | 2.9°C-0.7°C | -0.7°C | 271 | 20.0 | 5.96 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
- Stavanger in OctoberNorway · 160 kmHigh 10.4°C · Low 7.3°C · 221 mm rain
- Drammen in OctoberNorway · 280 kmHigh 9.4°C · Low 4.8°C · 98 mm rain
- Kristiansand in OctoberNorway · 292 kmHigh 10.6°C · Low 6.9°C · 141 mm rain
- Oslo in OctoberNorway · 305 kmHigh 9.0°C · Low 4.6°C · 94 mm rain
- Lillestrøm in OctoberNorway · 320 kmHigh 8.5°C · Low 3.8°C · 84 mm rain
- Fredrikstad in OctoberNorway · 339 kmHigh 10.0°C · Low 6.0°C · 87 mm rain
- Trondheim in OctoberNorway · 429 kmHigh 7.8°C · Low 2.2°C · 87 mm rain
- Aalborg in OctoberDenmark · 457 kmHigh 11.6°C · Low 7.4°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 Bergen) is explained once on the Bergen year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.