Climate averages 1991–2020
Brighton weather
in October.
A cool, 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 Brighton: daytime highs average 14.5°C and nights cool to about 10.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 108 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes October a wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 46 min on an average October day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Hove (2 km away). In October its highs average 14.5°C, about as warm as Brighton, with 108 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Brighton ranks joint 16th of 143 for the warmest October highs and joint 130th of 143 for the driest October (rainfall, lowest first). The mean October high of those 143 cities is 13.6°C; Brighton is 0.9°C warmer than that mean.
From October to November, average highs fall by 3.7°C to 10.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 108 mm to 116 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
Brighton climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7.7°C3.9°C | 3.9°C | 90 | 14.1 | 8.58 h |
| February | 7.7°C3.6°C | 3.6°C | 64 | 11.2 | 10.010 h |
| March | 9.6°C4.6°C | 4.6°C | 50 | 9.9 | 11.812 h |
| April | 12.0°C6.2°C | 6.2°C | 48 | 9.3 | 13.814 h |
| May | 14.9°C9.1°C | 9.1°C | 46 | 8.5 | 15.515 h |
| June | 17.5°C11.9°C | 11.9°C | 47 | 8.5 | 16.416 h |
| July | 19.6°C14.1°C | 14.1°C | 48 | 8.8 | 16.016 h |
| August | 19.8°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 62 | 9.3 | 14.615 h |
| September | 17.8°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 67 | 10.7 | 12.713 h |
| October, selected | 14.5°C10.2°C | 10.2°C | 108 | 13.9 | 10.811 h |
| November | 10.8°C6.9°C | 6.9°C | 116 | 15.3 | 9.09 h |
| December | 8.3°C4.6°C | 4.6°C | 103 | 14.1 | 8.08 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
- Hove in OctoberUnited Kingdom · 2 kmHigh 14.5°C · Low 10.2°C · 108 mm rain
- Worthing in OctoberUnited Kingdom · 17 kmHigh 14.6°C · Low 10.3°C · 105 mm rain
- Eastbourne in OctoberUnited Kingdom · 31 kmHigh 14.6°C · Low 11.4°C · 113 mm rain
- Crawley in OctoberUnited Kingdom · 32 kmHigh 14.3°C · Low 8.6°C · 70 mm rain
- Hastings, United Kingdom in OctoberUnited Kingdom · 51 kmHigh 14.7°C · Low 10.4°C · 112 mm rain
- Guildford in OctoberUnited Kingdom · 55 kmHigh 14.6°C · Low 8.4°C · 62 mm rain
- Purley in OctoberUnited Kingdom · 57 kmHigh 14.2°C · Low 8.2°C · 63 mm rain
- Sutton in OctoberUnited Kingdom · 58 kmHigh 14.3°C · Low 8.2°C · 62 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 Brighton) is explained once on the Brighton year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Hove lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.