Climate averages 1991–2020
Rotherham 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.
October is a cool month in Rotherham: daytime highs average 13.5°C and nights cool to about 7.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 61 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 38 min on an average October day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Sheffield (9 km away). In October its highs average 13.3°C, about as warm as Rotherham, with 68 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Rotherham ranks joint 80th of 143 for the warmest October highs and joint 34th of 143 for the driest October (rainfall, lowest first). The mean October high of those 143 cities is 13.6°C; Rotherham is level with that mean.
From October to November, average highs fall by 4.0°C to 9.6°C, and monthly rainfall stays at 61 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
Rotherham climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.8°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 53 | 12.1 | 8.18 h |
| February | 7.5°C2.0°C | 2.0°C | 47 | 10.6 | 9.810 h |
| March | 9.7°C3.0°C | 3.0°C | 49 | 10.9 | 11.812 h |
| April | 12.4°C4.6°C | 4.6°C | 58 | 11.7 | 14.014 h |
| May | 15.5°C7.6°C | 7.6°C | 58 | 11.5 | 15.916 h |
| June | 18.2°C10.6°C | 10.6°C | 74 | 12.2 | 16.917 h |
| July | 20.3°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 69 | 12.1 | 16.516 h |
| August | 19.9°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 73 | 11.9 | 14.815 h |
| September | 17.3°C10.6°C | 10.6°C | 58 | 9.7 | 12.813 h |
| October, selected | 13.5°C7.9°C | 7.9°C | 61 | 11.5 | 10.611 h |
| November | 9.6°C4.8°C | 4.8°C | 61 | 12.1 | 8.79 h |
| December | 7.0°C2.6°C | 2.6°C | 60 | 12.1 | 7.68 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
- Sheffield in OctoberUnited Kingdom · 9 kmHigh 13.3°C · Low 7.8°C · 68 mm rain
- Barnsley in OctoberUnited Kingdom · 16 kmHigh 12.8°C · Low 7.1°C · 68 mm rain
- Doncaster in OctoberUnited Kingdom · 18 kmHigh 13.7°C · Low 7.6°C · 61 mm rain
- Chesterfield in OctoberUnited Kingdom · 20 kmHigh 13.2°C · Low 7.6°C · 72 mm rain
- Wakefield in OctoberUnited Kingdom · 30 kmHigh 13.1°C · Low 7.5°C · 64 mm rain
- High Peak in OctoberUnited Kingdom · 33 kmHigh 11.7°C · Low 6.5°C · 86 mm rain
- Mansfield in OctoberUnited Kingdom · 35 kmHigh 13.2°C · Low 7.3°C · 63 mm rain
- Huddersfield in OctoberUnited Kingdom · 37 kmHigh 12.9°C · Low 7.7°C · 75 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 Rotherham) is explained once on the Rotherham year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Doncaster lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.