Climate averages 1991–2020
Zürich weather
in October.
A cool, wet month: the 6th warmest and the 4th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
October is a cool month in Zürich: daytime highs average 14.6°C and nights cool to about 7.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 103 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes October a wet month (the 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 55 min on an average October day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Winterthur (20 km away). In October its highs average 14.4°C, about as warm as Zürich, with 83 mm of rain.
Among the 8 cities listed in Switzerland, Zürich ranks 5th of 8 for the warmest October highs and joint 5th of 8 for the driest October (rainfall, lowest first). The mean October high of those 8 cities is 14.7°C; Zürich is level with that mean.
From October to November, average highs fall by 5.8°C to 8.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 103 mm to 106 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
Zürich climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 4.8°C-1.4°C | -1.4°C | 92 | 12.9 | 8.99 h |
| February | 6.1°C-1.5°C | -1.5°C | 85 | 11.9 | 10.210 h |
| March | 10.3°C1.1°C | 1.1°C | 98 | 14.2 | 11.912 h |
| April | 14.1°C4.2°C | 4.2°C | 106 | 13.9 | 13.614 h |
| May | 17.9°C8.6°C | 8.6°C | 144 | 16.0 | 15.115 h |
| June | 21.4°C12.5°C | 12.5°C | 143 | 15.5 | 15.916 h |
| July | 23.3°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 146 | 15.4 | 15.516 h |
| August | 23.2°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 147 | 14.4 | 14.314 h |
| September | 18.9°C11.2°C | 11.2°C | 123 | 12.4 | 12.613 h |
| October, selected | 14.6°C7.3°C | 7.3°C | 103 | 12.7 | 10.911 h |
| November | 8.8°C2.6°C | 2.6°C | 106 | 13.0 | 9.49 h |
| December | 5.2°C-0.4°C | -0.4°C | 106 | 14.0 | 8.59 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
- Winterthur in OctoberSwitzerland · 20 kmHigh 14.4°C · Low 6.9°C · 83 mm rain
- Luzern in OctoberSwitzerland · 40 kmHigh 14.9°C · Low 7.9°C · 130 mm rain
- Konstanz in OctoberGermany · 57 kmHigh 14.1°C · Low 8.6°C · 83 mm rain
- Sankt Gallen in OctoberSwitzerland · 62 kmHigh 13.4°C · Low 5.6°C · 103 mm rain
- Basel in OctoberSwitzerland · 76 kmHigh 15.4°C · Low 6.7°C · 97 mm rain
- Villingen-Schwenningen in OctoberGermany · 77 kmHigh 12.5°C · Low 5.1°C · 91 mm rain
- Vaduz in OctoberLiechtenstein · 77 kmHigh 15.4°C · Low 6.8°C · 120 mm rain
- Freiburg in OctoberGermany · 87 kmHigh 15.4°C · Low 8.0°C · 85 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 Zürich) is explained once on the Zürich year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.