Climate averages 1991–2020
Federal Way weather
in October.
A cool, 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 Federal Way: daytime highs average 14.3°C and nights cool to about 7.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 131 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes October a wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 55 min on an average October day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Auburn (7 km away). In October its highs average 14.9°C, 0.6°C warmer than Federal Way, with 131 mm of rain.
Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, Federal Way ranks joint 479th of 498 for the warmest October highs and joint 488th of 498 for the driest October (rainfall, lowest first). The mean October high of those 498 cities is 21.4°C; Federal Way is 7.1°C cooler than that mean.
From October to November, average highs fall by 5.1°C to 9.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 131 mm to 206 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
Federal Way climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.8°C1.1°C | 1.1°C | 190 | 18.2 | 8.99 h |
| February | 8.1°C0.9°C | 0.9°C | 135 | 15.0 | 10.210 h |
| March | 10.3°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 152 | 17.8 | 11.912 h |
| April | 12.9°C4.2°C | 4.2°C | 118 | 15.8 | 13.614 h |
| May | 16.7°C7.7°C | 7.7°C | 78 | 11.9 | 15.115 h |
| June | 19.2°C10.6°C | 10.6°C | 58 | 9.2 | 15.916 h |
| July | 23.4°C13.3°C | 13.3°C | 21 | 4.1 | 15.516 h |
| August | 23.7°C13.6°C | 13.6°C | 28 | 4.5 | 14.314 h |
| September | 20.3°C11.2°C | 11.2°C | 64 | 8.1 | 12.613 h |
| October, selected | 14.3°C7.2°C | 7.2°C | 131 | 13.7 | 10.911 h |
| November | 9.2°C3.5°C | 3.5°C | 206 | 18.1 | 9.49 h |
| December | 6.2°C1.1°C | 1.1°C | 196 | 17.8 | 8.69 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
- Auburn in OctoberUnited States · 7 kmHigh 14.9°C · Low 7.4°C · 131 mm rain
- Kent in OctoberUnited States · 9 kmHigh 15.2°C · Low 7.8°C · 134 mm rain
- Tacoma in OctoberUnited States · 13 kmHigh 14.7°C · Low 7.9°C · 112 mm rain
- Renton in OctoberUnited States · 19 kmHigh 15.2°C · Low 7.7°C · 134 mm rain
- Seattle in OctoberUnited States · 32 kmHigh 14.6°C · Low 7.4°C · 134 mm rain
- Bellevue in OctoberUnited States · 33 kmHigh 14.8°C · Low 7.4°C · 134 mm rain
- Kirkland in OctoberUnited States · 41 kmHigh 14.4°C · Low 7.3°C · 143 mm rain
- Everett in OctoberUnited States · 73 kmHigh 14.3°C · Low 7.4°C · 180 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 Federal Way) is explained once on the Federal Way year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Auburn lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.