Climate averages 1991–2020
Wigan 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 Wigan: daytime highs average 13.2°C and nights cool to about 7.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 91 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes October a wet month (the 10th 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 St Helens (12 km away). In October its highs average 13.3°C, about as warm as Wigan, with 91 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Wigan ranks joint 95th of 143 for the warmest October highs and joint 120th of 143 for the driest October (rainfall, lowest first). The mean October high of those 143 cities is 13.6°C; Wigan is 0.4°C cooler than that mean.
From October to November, average highs fall by 3.7°C to 9.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 91 mm to 92 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
Wigan climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.8°C2.3°C | 2.3°C | 79 | 15.0 | 8.18 h |
| February | 7.4°C2.1°C | 2.1°C | 68 | 13.2 | 9.810 h |
| March | 9.4°C3.0°C | 3.0°C | 67 | 13.0 | 11.812 h |
| April | 11.9°C4.7°C | 4.7°C | 64 | 12.5 | 14.014 h |
| May | 14.9°C7.6°C | 7.6°C | 66 | 12.6 | 15.916 h |
| June | 17.3°C10.5°C | 10.5°C | 79 | 13.3 | 16.917 h |
| July | 19.0°C12.5°C | 12.5°C | 80 | 14.9 | 16.516 h |
| August | 18.7°C12.5°C | 12.5°C | 89 | 15.2 | 14.815 h |
| September | 16.6°C10.5°C | 10.5°C | 78 | 12.7 | 12.813 h |
| October, selected | 13.2°C7.9°C | 7.9°C | 91 | 14.6 | 10.611 h |
| November | 9.5°C4.9°C | 4.9°C | 92 | 16.1 | 8.79 h |
| December | 7.1°C2.7°C | 2.7°C | 98 | 15.5 | 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
- St Helens in OctoberUnited Kingdom · 12 kmHigh 13.3°C · Low 8.2°C · 91 mm rain
- Bolton in OctoberUnited Kingdom · 14 kmHigh 12.7°C · Low 7.3°C · 91 mm rain
- Warrington in OctoberUnited Kingdom · 17 kmHigh 13.2°C · Low 7.8°C · 91 mm rain
- Salford in OctoberUnited Kingdom · 24 kmHigh 12.9°C · Low 7.3°C · 89 mm rain
- Preston in OctoberUnited Kingdom · 25 kmHigh 12.9°C · Low 8.1°C · 116 mm rain
- Blackburn in OctoberUnited Kingdom · 25 kmHigh 12.4°C · Low 7.1°C · 108 mm rain
- Liverpool in OctoberUnited Kingdom · 27 kmHigh 13.2°C · Low 8.8°C · 115 mm rain
- Southport in OctoberUnited Kingdom · 27 kmHigh 13.3°C · Low 9.3°C · 137 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 Wigan) is explained once on the Wigan year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
St Helens lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.