Climate averages 1991–2020
Sunderland weather
in October.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 6th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
October is a cool month in Sunderland: daytime highs average 12.9°C and nights cool to about 7.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 58 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes October a moderately wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 33 min on an average October day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is South Shields (11 km away). In October its highs average 12.9°C, about as warm as Sunderland, with 58 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Sunderland ranks joint 112th of 143 for the warmest October highs and joint 14th of 143 for the driest October (rainfall, lowest first). The mean October high of those 143 cities is 13.6°C; Sunderland is 0.7°C cooler than that mean.
From October to November, average highs fall by 3.7°C to 9.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 58 mm to 62 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
Sunderland climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.5°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 53 | 12.2 | 7.98 h |
| February | 7.1°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 46 | 11.0 | 9.610 h |
| March | 8.9°C2.9°C | 2.9°C | 43 | 10.6 | 11.812 h |
| April | 11.1°C4.5°C | 4.5°C | 51 | 11.0 | 14.114 h |
| May | 13.9°C7.2°C | 7.2°C | 48 | 11.3 | 16.116 h |
| June | 16.6°C10.1°C | 10.1°C | 60 | 11.5 | 17.217 h |
| July | 19.0°C12.3°C | 12.3°C | 61 | 12.0 | 16.717 h |
| August | 18.7°C12.2°C | 12.2°C | 68 | 12.3 | 15.015 h |
| September | 16.4°C10.3°C | 10.3°C | 52 | 9.7 | 12.813 h |
| October, selected | 12.9°C7.7°C | 7.7°C | 58 | 11.8 | 10.511 h |
| November | 9.2°C4.8°C | 4.8°C | 62 | 12.5 | 8.58 h |
| December | 6.7°C2.6°C | 2.6°C | 59 | 12.4 | 7.37 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
- South Shields in OctoberUnited Kingdom · 11 kmHigh 12.9°C · Low 8.1°C · 58 mm rain
- Newcastle upon Tyne in OctoberUnited Kingdom · 17 kmHigh 12.4°C · Low 7.5°C · 58 mm rain
- Hartlepool in OctoberUnited Kingdom · 27 kmHigh 12.9°C · Low 8.3°C · 64 mm rain
- Stockton-on-Tees in OctoberUnited Kingdom · 38 kmHigh 13.0°C · Low 8.0°C · 64 mm rain
- Middlesbrough in OctoberUnited Kingdom · 38 kmHigh 12.9°C · Low 8.2°C · 64 mm rain
- Darlington in OctoberUnited Kingdom · 44 kmHigh 12.6°C · Low 7.0°C · 58 mm rain
- Carlisle in OctoberUnited Kingdom · 99 kmHigh 12.1°C · Low 6.7°C · 90 mm rain
- Harrogate in OctoberUnited Kingdom · 102 kmHigh 12.4°C · Low 6.7°C · 64 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 Sunderland) is explained once on the Sunderland year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Newcastle upon Tyne and South Shields lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.