Climate averages 1991–2020
Gweru weather
in October.
A hot, fairly dry month: the warmest and the 6th driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
October is a hot month in Gweru: daytime highs average 28.4°C and nights cool to about 15.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 25 mm of rain on roughly 5 days, which makes October a fairly dry month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 31 min on an average October day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Kwekwe (58 km away). In October its highs average 31.3°C, 2.8°C warmer than Gweru, with 24 mm of rain.
Among the 11 cities listed in Zimbabwe, Gweru ranks 7th of 11 for the warmest October highs and joint 6th of 11 for the driest October (rainfall, lowest first). The mean October high of those 11 cities is 29.1°C; Gweru is 0.7°C cooler than that mean.
From October to November, average highs fall by 1.0°C to 27.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 25 mm to 98 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
Gweru climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 25.3°C16.4°C | 16.4°C | 161 | 15.7 | 13.213 h |
| February | 25.3°C16.2°C | 16.2°C | 122 | 12.9 | 12.713 h |
| March | 24.8°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 82 | 10.5 | 12.212 h |
| April | 23.4°C13.1°C | 13.1°C | 28 | 4.0 | 11.712 h |
| May | 22.0°C10.5°C | 10.5°C | 6.8 | 1.4 | 11.211 h |
| June | 19.9°C8.1°C | 8.1°C | 3.7 | 0.7 | 11.011 h |
| July | 19.4°C7.5°C | 7.5°C | 2.9 | 0.9 | 11.111 h |
| August | 23.2°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 0.6 | 0.1 | 11.511 h |
| September | 27.0°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 4.4 | 0.8 | 12.012 h |
| October, selected | 28.4°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 25 | 4.8 | 12.513 h |
| November | 27.5°C16.3°C | 16.3°C | 98 | 12.3 | 13.013 h |
| December | 25.9°C16.4°C | 16.4°C | 184 | 17.6 | 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
- Kwekwe in OctoberZimbabwe · 58 kmHigh 31.3°C · Low 16.9°C · 24 mm rain
- Kadoma in OctoberZimbabwe · 125 kmHigh 31.5°C · Low 18.4°C · 25 mm rain
- Masvingo in OctoberZimbabwe · 126 kmHigh 28.9°C · Low 15.9°C · 22 mm rain
- Bulawayo in OctoberZimbabwe · 151 kmHigh 29.6°C · Low 15.5°C · 23 mm rain
- Norton in OctoberZimbabwe · 197 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 16.5°C · 26 mm rain
- Chitungwiza in OctoberZimbabwe · 208 kmHigh 28.3°C · Low 15.1°C · 28 mm rain
- Harare in OctoberZimbabwe · 223 kmHigh 28.0°C · Low 14.9°C · 22 mm rain
- Ruwa in OctoberZimbabwe · 230 kmHigh 27.1°C · Low 14.0°C · 31 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 Gweru) is explained once on the Gweru year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.