Climate averages 1991–2020
East Kilbride weather
in October.
A cool, 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 East Kilbride: daytime highs average 11.1°C and nights cool to about 5.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 110 mm of rain on roughly 16 days, which makes October a wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 30 min on an average October day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Glasgow (12 km away). In October its highs average 11.7°C, 0.6°C warmer than East Kilbride, with 110 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, East Kilbride ranks 143rd of 143 for the warmest October highs and joint 133rd of 143 for the driest October (rainfall, lowest first). The mean October high of those 143 cities is 13.6°C; East Kilbride is 2.5°C cooler than that mean.
From October to November, average highs fall by 3.4°C to 7.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 110 mm to 105 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
East Kilbride climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.2°C0.8°C | 0.8°C | 116 | 16.7 | 7.78 h |
| February | 5.8°C0.7°C | 0.7°C | 98 | 14.5 | 9.610 h |
| March | 7.5°C1.5°C | 1.5°C | 87 | 14.5 | 11.812 h |
| April | 10.1°C3.0°C | 3.0°C | 74 | 13.8 | 14.114 h |
| May | 13.2°C5.7°C | 5.7°C | 79 | 13.6 | 16.216 h |
| June | 15.4°C8.7°C | 8.7°C | 86 | 14.2 | 17.417 h |
| July | 16.9°C10.4°C | 10.4°C | 92 | 15.5 | 16.917 h |
| August | 16.6°C10.2°C | 10.2°C | 101 | 15.7 | 15.115 h |
| September | 14.4°C8.4°C | 8.4°C | 83 | 13.3 | 12.813 h |
| October, selected | 11.1°C5.7°C | 5.7°C | 110 | 15.5 | 10.510 h |
| November | 7.6°C2.9°C | 2.9°C | 105 | 15.9 | 8.48 h |
| December | 5.3°C0.7°C | 0.7°C | 115 | 15.8 | 7.17 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
- Glasgow in OctoberUnited Kingdom · 12 kmHigh 11.7°C · Low 6.4°C · 110 mm rain
- Paisley in OctoberUnited Kingdom · 18 kmHigh 11.8°C · Low 6.7°C · 122 mm rain
- Edinburgh in OctoberUnited Kingdom · 65 kmHigh 11.8°C · Low 7.1°C · 80 mm rain
- Dundee, United Kingdom in OctoberUnited Kingdom · 108 kmHigh 11.4°C · Low 6.3°C · 89 mm rain
- Carlisle in OctoberUnited Kingdom · 124 kmHigh 12.1°C · Low 6.7°C · 90 mm rain
- Belfast in OctoberUnited Kingdom · 171 kmHigh 12.8°C · Low 9.0°C · 86 mm rain
- Douglas in OctoberIsle of Man · 181 kmHigh 13.1°C · Low 11.0°C · 117 mm rain
- Lisburn in OctoberUnited Kingdom · 182 kmHigh 12.5°C · Low 8.3°C · 86 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 East Kilbride) is explained once on the East Kilbride year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Glasgow lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.