Climate averages 1991–2020
Crawley weather
in October.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 6th warmest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
October is a cool month in Crawley: daytime highs average 14.3°C and nights cool to about 8.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 70 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes October a moderately wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 45 min on an average October day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Purley (25 km away). In October its highs average 14.2°C, about as warm as Crawley, with 63 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Crawley ranks joint 33rd of 143 for the warmest October highs and joint 90th of 143 for the driest October (rainfall, lowest first). The mean October high of those 143 cities is 13.6°C; Crawley is 0.7°C warmer than that mean.
From October to November, average highs fall by 4.0°C to 10.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 70 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
Crawley climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7.2°C2.4°C | 2.4°C | 65 | 11.4 | 8.58 h |
| February | 7.6°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 51 | 9.5 | 10.010 h |
| March | 10.0°C3.4°C | 3.4°C | 45 | 9.9 | 11.812 h |
| April | 12.8°C5.1°C | 5.1°C | 49 | 10.2 | 13.814 h |
| May | 16.0°C8.2°C | 8.2°C | 52 | 9.6 | 15.516 h |
| June | 18.7°C11.1°C | 11.1°C | 52 | 9.2 | 16.516 h |
| July | 20.9°C13.2°C | 13.2°C | 52 | 10.0 | 16.116 h |
| August | 20.6°C13.3°C | 13.3°C | 62 | 9.5 | 14.615 h |
| September | 18.1°C11.2°C | 11.2°C | 50 | 9.2 | 12.713 h |
| October, selected | 14.3°C8.6°C | 8.6°C | 70 | 11.5 | 10.711 h |
| November | 10.3°C5.2°C | 5.2°C | 74 | 11.9 | 9.09 h |
| December | 7.6°C3.0°C | 3.0°C | 71 | 11.8 | 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
- Purley in OctoberUnited Kingdom · 25 kmHigh 14.2°C · Low 8.2°C · 63 mm rain
- Sutton in OctoberUnited Kingdom · 26 kmHigh 14.3°C · Low 8.2°C · 62 mm rain
- Guildford in OctoberUnited Kingdom · 30 kmHigh 14.6°C · Low 8.4°C · 62 mm rain
- Croydon in OctoberUnited Kingdom · 31 kmHigh 14.4°C · Low 8.5°C · 57 mm rain
- Hove in OctoberUnited Kingdom · 31 kmHigh 14.5°C · Low 10.2°C · 108 mm rain
- Brighton in OctoberUnited Kingdom · 32 kmHigh 14.5°C · Low 10.2°C · 108 mm rain
- Woking in OctoberUnited Kingdom · 35 kmHigh 14.5°C · Low 8.3°C · 62 mm rain
- Worthing in OctoberUnited Kingdom · 35 kmHigh 14.6°C · Low 10.3°C · 105 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 Crawley) is explained once on the Crawley year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.