Climate averages 1991–2020
Bulawayo weather
in October.
A hot, fairly dry month: the warmest and the joint 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
October is a hot month in Bulawayo: daytime highs average 29.6°C and nights cool to about 15.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 23 mm of rain on roughly 6 days, which makes October a fairly dry month (the joint 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 32 min on an average October day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Gweru (151 km away). In October its highs average 28.4°C, 1.1°C cooler than Bulawayo, with 25 mm of rain.
Among the 11 cities listed in Zimbabwe, Bulawayo ranks 4th of 11 for the warmest October highs and 4th of 11 for the driest October (rainfall, lowest first). The mean October high of those 11 cities is 29.1°C; Bulawayo is 0.4°C warmer than that mean.
From October to November, average highs fall by 1.0°C to 28.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 23 mm to 87 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
Bulawayo climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 26.6°C17.1°C | 17.1°C | 134 | 14.9 | 13.213 h |
| February | 26.3°C16.9°C | 16.9°C | 111 | 11.9 | 12.813 h |
| March | 25.9°C16.0°C | 16.0°C | 65 | 9.4 | 12.212 h |
| April | 24.6°C13.6°C | 13.6°C | 23 | 4.0 | 11.612 h |
| May | 23.1°C10.8°C | 10.8°C | 6.3 | 1.3 | 11.211 h |
| June | 20.8°C8.5°C | 8.5°C | 4.0 | 0.8 | 10.911 h |
| July | 20.3°C7.8°C | 7.8°C | 2.6 | 0.7 | 11.011 h |
| August | 24.2°C10.0°C | 10.0°C | 0.9 | 0.2 | 11.411 h |
| September | 28.1°C13.2°C | 13.2°C | 5.3 | 1.4 | 12.012 h |
| October, selected | 29.6°C15.5°C | 15.5°C | 23 | 5.5 | 12.513 h |
| November | 28.6°C16.8°C | 16.8°C | 87 | 12.6 | 13.113 h |
| December | 26.9°C17.0°C | 17.0°C | 148 | 17.0 | 13.313 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
- Gweru in OctoberZimbabwe · 151 kmHigh 28.4°C · Low 15.0°C · 25 mm rain
- Francistown in OctoberBotswana · 159 kmHigh 31.8°C · Low 17.7°C · 15 mm rain
- Kwekwe in OctoberZimbabwe · 187 kmHigh 31.3°C · Low 16.9°C · 24 mm rain
- Masvingo in OctoberZimbabwe · 235 kmHigh 28.9°C · Low 15.9°C · 22 mm rain
- Kadoma in OctoberZimbabwe · 246 kmHigh 31.5°C · Low 18.4°C · 25 mm rain
- Norton in OctoberZimbabwe · 336 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 16.5°C · 26 mm rain
- Louis Trichardt in OctoberSouth Africa · 350 kmHigh 28.1°C · Low 15.7°C · 22 mm rain
- Chinhoyi in OctoberZimbabwe · 353 kmHigh 31.1°C · Low 18.2°C · 17 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 Bulawayo) is explained once on the Bulawayo year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.