Climate averages 1991–2020
Peshawar weather
in October.
A hot, fairly dry month: the 6th warmest and the joint 4th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
October is a hot month in Peshawar: daytime highs average 29.7°C and nights cool to about 15.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 35 mm of rain on roughly 5 days, which makes October a fairly dry month (the joint 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 22 min on an average October day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Charsadda (22 km away). In October its highs average 30.5°C, 0.8°C warmer than Peshawar, with 22 mm of rain.
Among the 166 cities listed in Pakistan, Peshawar ranks joint 142nd of 166 for the warmest October highs and joint 156th of 166 for the driest October (rainfall, lowest first). The mean October high of those 166 cities is 32.3°C; Peshawar is 2.6°C cooler than that mean.
From October to November, average highs fall by 6.1°C to 23.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 35 mm to 23 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
Peshawar climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 16.5°C3.4°C | 3.4°C | 35 | 4.7 | 10.210 h |
| February | 18.4°C5.4°C | 5.4°C | 67 | 7.0 | 10.911 h |
| March | 23.0°C9.9°C | 9.9°C | 85 | 9.6 | 12.012 h |
| April | 29.1°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 74 | 7.7 | 13.013 h |
| May | 35.7°C20.5°C | 20.5°C | 32 | 5.6 | 13.914 h |
| June | 39.2°C25.4°C | 25.4°C | 40 | 6.5 | 14.414 h |
| July | 36.0°C26.2°C | 26.2°C | 153 | 16.5 | 14.214 h |
| August | 33.7°C25.1°C | 25.1°C | 152 | 18.4 | 13.413 h |
| September | 33.0°C22.4°C | 22.4°C | 74 | 10.0 | 12.412 h |
| October, selected | 29.7°C15.8°C | 15.8°C | 35 | 4.6 | 11.411 h |
| November | 23.6°C9.6°C | 9.6°C | 23 | 3.1 | 10.410 h |
| December | 19.1°C5.2°C | 5.2°C | 18 | 2.2 | 9.910 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
- Charsadda in OctoberPakistan · 22 kmHigh 30.5°C · Low 16.6°C · 22 mm rain
- Shabqadar in OctoberPakistan · 23 kmHigh 30.3°C · Low 16.2°C · 28 mm rain
- Nowshera Kalan in OctoberPakistan · 37 kmHigh 29.6°C · Low 17.2°C · 44 mm rain
- Mardan in OctoberPakistan · 48 kmHigh 29.9°C · Low 16.4°C · 28 mm rain
- Kohat in OctoberPakistan · 49 kmHigh 28.9°C · Low 15.6°C · 21 mm rain
- Tordher in OctoberPakistan · 65 kmHigh 28.8°C · Low 16.6°C · 41 mm rain
- Bat Khela in OctoberPakistan · 77 kmHigh 27.9°C · Low 12.3°C · 26 mm rain
- Attock City in OctoberPakistan · 77 kmHigh 28.4°C · Low 16.7°C · 39 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 Peshawar) is explained once on the Peshawar year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.