Climate averages 1991–2020
Zaanstad weather
in October.
A cool, moderately 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 Zaanstad: daytime highs average 13.9°C and nights cool to about 9.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 88 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes October a moderately wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 41 min on an average October day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Zaandam (2 km away). In October its highs average 14.0°C, about as warm as Zaanstad, with 88 mm of rain.
Among the 44 cities listed in the Netherlands, Zaanstad ranks joint 33rd of 44 for the warmest October highs and joint 40th of 44 for the driest October (rainfall, lowest first). The mean October high of those 44 cities is 14.1°C; Zaanstad is 0.3°C cooler than that mean.
From October to November, average highs fall by 4.3°C to 9.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 88 mm to 77 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
Zaanstad climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.8°C2.4°C | 2.4°C | 69 | 13.2 | 8.38 h |
| February | 6.2°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 54 | 11.0 | 9.910 h |
| March | 8.7°C3.8°C | 3.8°C | 52 | 10.7 | 11.812 h |
| April | 12.2°C6.3°C | 6.3°C | 44 | 10.1 | 13.914 h |
| May | 15.4°C9.8°C | 9.8°C | 58 | 10.4 | 15.716 h |
| June | 18.0°C12.6°C | 12.6°C | 63 | 11.3 | 16.717 h |
| July | 20.2°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 79 | 13.0 | 16.316 h |
| August | 20.4°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 90 | 13.3 | 14.715 h |
| September | 17.7°C13.1°C | 13.1°C | 84 | 12.7 | 12.713 h |
| October, selected | 13.9°C9.7°C | 9.7°C | 88 | 14.1 | 10.711 h |
| November | 9.6°C6.2°C | 6.2°C | 77 | 14.8 | 8.89 h |
| December | 6.6°C3.4°C | 3.4°C | 79 | 14.2 | 7.88 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
- Zaandam in OctoberThe Netherlands · 2 kmHigh 14.0°C · Low 9.5°C · 88 mm rain
- Amsterdam in OctoberThe Netherlands · 10 kmHigh 13.9°C · Low 9.1°C · 66 mm rain
- Purmerend in OctoberThe Netherlands · 11 kmHigh 13.9°C · Low 9.2°C · 69 mm rain
- Haarlem in OctoberThe Netherlands · 14 kmHigh 13.9°C · Low 9.9°C · 88 mm rain
- Amstelveen in OctoberThe Netherlands · 17 kmHigh 14.0°C · Low 9.0°C · 84 mm rain
- Hoofddorp in OctoberThe Netherlands · 19 kmHigh 14.0°C · Low 9.6°C · 84 mm rain
- Alkmaar in OctoberThe Netherlands · 20 kmHigh 13.8°C · Low 10.4°C · 91 mm rain
- Almere Stad in OctoberThe Netherlands · 29 kmHigh 14.1°C · Low 8.7°C · 65 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 Zaanstad) is explained once on the Zaanstad year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Haarlem and Zaandam lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.