Climate averages 1991–2020
Lee's Summit weather
in October.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 6th warmest and the 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
October is a mild month in Lee's Summit: daytime highs average 18.6°C and nights cool to about 9.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 85 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes October a moderately wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 13 min on an average October day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Independence (20 km away). In October its highs average 18.3°C, about as warm as Lee's Summit, with 85 mm of rain.
Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, Lee's Summit ranks joint 306th of 498 for the warmest October highs and joint 300th of 498 for the driest October (rainfall, lowest first). The mean October high of those 498 cities is 21.4°C; Lee's Summit is 2.8°C cooler than that mean.
From October to November, average highs fall by 7.3°C to 11.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 85 mm to 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
Lee's Summit climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.4°C-5.3°C | -5.3°C | 37 | 5.9 | 9.810 h |
| February | 6.2°C-3.2°C | -3.2°C | 50 | 6.1 | 10.711 h |
| March | 12.2°C2.0°C | 2.0°C | 78 | 9.3 | 11.912 h |
| April | 17.8°C7.7°C | 7.7°C | 124 | 11.2 | 13.213 h |
| May | 23.1°C13.7°C | 13.7°C | 143 | 12.9 | 14.314 h |
| June | 28.2°C19.1°C | 19.1°C | 124 | 11.7 | 14.815 h |
| July | 30.6°C21.7°C | 21.7°C | 94 | 9.3 | 14.615 h |
| August | 29.8°C20.8°C | 20.8°C | 94 | 9.0 | 13.714 h |
| September | 25.3°C16.2°C | 16.2°C | 93 | 8.1 | 12.512 h |
| October, selected | 18.6°C9.7°C | 9.7°C | 85 | 8.1 | 11.211 h |
| November | 11.3°C3.0°C | 3.0°C | 61 | 6.7 | 10.110 h |
| December | 5.4°C-2.7°C | -2.7°C | 46 | 5.8 | 9.59 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
- Independence in OctoberUnited States · 20 kmHigh 18.3°C · Low 9.6°C · 85 mm rain
- Overland Park in OctoberUnited States · 26 kmHigh 18.5°C · Low 9.8°C · 83 mm rain
- Kansas City in OctoberUnited States · 27 kmHigh 18.7°C · Low 9.6°C · 85 mm rain
- Olathe in OctoberUnited States · 38 kmHigh 18.7°C · Low 9.8°C · 83 mm rain
- Lawrence (Kansas), United States in OctoberUnited States · 74 kmHigh 19.0°C · Low 9.9°C · 82 mm rain
- Saint Joseph in OctoberUnited States · 103 kmHigh 18.3°C · Low 9.1°C · 81 mm rain
- Topeka in OctoberUnited States · 113 kmHigh 19.1°C · Low 9.7°C · 78 mm rain
- Columbia (Missouri), United States in OctoberUnited States · 177 kmHigh 19.2°C · Low 10.1°C · 83 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 Lee's Summit) is explained once on the Lee's Summit year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Kansas City and Independence lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.