Climate averages 1991–2020
Bradford weather
in October.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 6th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
October is a cool month in Bradford: daytime highs average 12.6°C and nights cool to about 7.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 75 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes October a moderately wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 37 min on an average October day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Halifax, United Kingdom (11 km away). In October its highs average 12.4°C, about as warm as Bradford, with 75 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Bradford ranks joint 125th of 143 for the warmest October highs and joint 97th of 143 for the driest October (rainfall, lowest first). The mean October high of those 143 cities is 13.6°C; Bradford is 1.0°C cooler than that mean.
From October to November, average highs fall by 3.8°C to 8.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 75 mm to 74 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
Bradford climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.1°C1.6°C | 1.6°C | 73 | 14.1 | 8.18 h |
| February | 6.7°C1.4°C | 1.4°C | 66 | 12.8 | 9.710 h |
| March | 8.8°C2.3°C | 2.3°C | 64 | 12.7 | 11.812 h |
| April | 11.5°C3.9°C | 3.9°C | 65 | 12.6 | 14.014 h |
| May | 14.4°C6.8°C | 6.8°C | 64 | 12.5 | 15.916 h |
| June | 17.0°C9.8°C | 9.8°C | 78 | 13.7 | 17.017 h |
| July | 19.0°C11.9°C | 11.9°C | 77 | 14.0 | 16.517 h |
| August | 18.6°C11.9°C | 11.9°C | 82 | 14.2 | 14.815 h |
| September | 16.2°C9.8°C | 9.8°C | 69 | 11.4 | 12.813 h |
| October, selected | 12.6°C7.2°C | 7.2°C | 75 | 13.2 | 10.611 h |
| November | 8.8°C4.2°C | 4.2°C | 74 | 13.6 | 8.69 h |
| December | 6.4°C2.0°C | 2.0°C | 82 | 13.8 | 7.58 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
- Halifax, United Kingdom in OctoberUnited Kingdom · 11 kmHigh 12.4°C · Low 7.1°C · 75 mm rain
- Leeds in OctoberUnited Kingdom · 13 kmHigh 13.2°C · Low 7.5°C · 64 mm rain
- Huddersfield in OctoberUnited Kingdom · 16 kmHigh 12.9°C · Low 7.7°C · 75 mm rain
- Wakefield in OctoberUnited Kingdom · 21 kmHigh 13.1°C · Low 7.5°C · 64 mm rain
- Harrogate in OctoberUnited Kingdom · 26 kmHigh 12.4°C · Low 6.7°C · 64 mm rain
- Burnley in OctoberUnited Kingdom · 32 kmHigh 12.4°C · Low 6.8°C · 104 mm rain
- Barnsley in OctoberUnited Kingdom · 32 kmHigh 12.8°C · Low 7.1°C · 68 mm rain
- Rochdale in OctoberUnited Kingdom · 33 kmHigh 12.5°C · Low 7.0°C · 89 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 Bradford) is explained once on the Bradford year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Huddersfield and Halifax, United Kingdom lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.