Climate averages 1991–2020

Middlesbrough weather
in October.

A cool, moderately wet month: the 6th warmest and the joint 8th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 12.9°C Daytime mean, October
Average low 8.2°C Night-time mean, October
Rainfall 64 mm 12 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 11 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Middlesbrough · average highYear overview

October is a cool month in Middlesbrough: daytime highs average 12.9°C and nights cool to about 8.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 64 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes October a moderately wet month (the joint 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 34 min on an average October day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Stockton-on-Tees (5 km away). In October its highs average 13.0°C, about as warm as Middlesbrough, with 64 mm of rain.

Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Middlesbrough ranks joint 112th of 143 for the warmest October highs and joint 56th of 143 for the driest October (rainfall, lowest first). The mean October high of those 143 cities is 13.6°C; Middlesbrough is 0.7°C cooler than that mean.

From October to November, average highs fall by 3.6°C to 9.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 64 mm to 69 mm.

The annual picture

October in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. 0510152025 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 1000

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Middlesbrough climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Middlesbrough, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 6.6°C2.6°C2.6°C5813.17.98 h
February 7.1°C2.5°C2.5°C5211.69.710 h
March 8.8°C3.3°C3.3°C4610.711.812 h
April 11.0°C4.9°C4.9°C5310.814.014 h
May 13.7°C7.6°C7.6°C4911.016.016 h
June 16.4°C10.5°C10.5°C6411.117.217 h
July 18.8°C12.7°C12.7°C6211.716.717 h
August 18.6°C12.7°C12.7°C6711.714.915 h
September 16.3°C10.7°C10.7°C589.812.813 h
October, selected 12.9°C8.2°C8.2°C6412.110.611 h
November 9.3°C5.2°C5.2°C6912.98.59 h
December 6.9°C3.1°C3.1°C6513.47.47 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

Distance from Middlesbrough

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Middlesbrough) is explained once on the Middlesbrough year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.

Stockton-on-Tees lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.