Climate averages 1991–2020
Banská Bystrica weather
in October.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 7th warmest and the 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
October is a cool month in Banská Bystrica: daytime highs average 12.9°C and nights cool to about 5.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 67 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes October a moderately wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 51 min on an average October day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Žilina (62 km away). In October its highs average 12.6°C, about as warm as Banská Bystrica, with 69 mm of rain.
Among the 6 cities listed in Slovakia, Banská Bystrica ranks 5th of 6 for the warmest October highs and 5th of 6 for the driest October (rainfall, lowest first). The mean October high of those 6 cities is 13.7°C; Banská Bystrica is 0.8°C cooler than that mean.
From October to November, average highs fall by 5.9°C to 7.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 67 mm to 60 mm.
The annual picture
October in context
Monthly precipitation
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
Banská Bystrica climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 1.2°C-5.0°C | -5.0°C | 49 | 10.1 | 8.89 h |
| February | 3.2°C-4.3°C | -4.3°C | 52 | 10.2 | 10.110 h |
| March | 7.8°C-0.5°C | -0.5°C | 58 | 11.1 | 11.912 h |
| April | 14.3°C3.9°C | 3.9°C | 69 | 11.8 | 13.714 h |
| May | 18.7°C8.9°C | 8.9°C | 106 | 15.3 | 15.215 h |
| June | 22.1°C12.5°C | 12.5°C | 118 | 14.8 | 16.116 h |
| July | 23.9°C14.5°C | 14.5°C | 116 | 14.7 | 15.716 h |
| August | 23.8°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 98 | 12.2 | 14.414 h |
| September | 18.6°C10.1°C | 10.1°C | 78 | 11.0 | 12.613 h |
| October, selected | 12.9°C5.7°C | 5.7°C | 67 | 10.3 | 10.911 h |
| November | 7.0°C1.8°C | 1.8°C | 60 | 10.8 | 9.29 h |
| December | 2.0°C-2.9°C | -2.9°C | 55 | 10.5 | 8.48 h |
Precipitation (rain or snow, as water) is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A wet 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
- Žilina in OctoberSlovakia · 62 kmHigh 12.6°C · Low 5.4°C · 69 mm rain
- Nitra in OctoberSlovakia · 92 kmHigh 15.1°C · Low 7.4°C · 49 mm rain
- Bielsko-Biala in OctoberPoland · 121 kmHigh 13.1°C · Low 6.0°C · 76 mm rain
- Zlín in OctoberCzechia · 121 kmHigh 13.4°C · Low 6.5°C · 55 mm rain
- Havířov in OctoberCzechia · 127 kmHigh 12.9°C · Low 6.0°C · 65 mm rain
- Ostrava in OctoberCzechia · 137 kmHigh 13.3°C · Low 6.3°C · 59 mm rain
- Budapest in OctoberHungary · 138 kmHigh 15.8°C · Low 7.8°C · 53 mm rain
- Miskolc in OctoberHungary · 139 kmHigh 15.2°C · Low 6.8°C · 51 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 Banská Bystrica) is explained once on the Banská Bystrica year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.