Weather in Chandigarh in October

Prime time. October is about as good as Chandigarh gets. Highs average 31.2 °C, lows 18.9 °C, and rain falls on 2 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

October ranks 5 of 12 in Chandigarh: past the worst of the year but short of November, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain falls on only 2 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. Pack for 31.2 °C days and 18.9 °C nights; the spread matters more here than any single number.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: 21 days top 30 °C, making the heat continuous rather than occasional. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest October day reached 36.9 °C and the coldest night fell to 13.6 °C.

This is the volatile part. October rainfall has ranged from 0 mm to 51 mm across the twenty years measured — a 51 mm spread around an average of 12 mm. The average is real but almost no individual October looks like it, so treat the figure as the middle of a wide range rather than a forecast.

Wind is light at 5.4 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 52%.

How October sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 32.1 °C in September, 31.2 here, 27.4 in November. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much. Rain has already shifted: 12 days fewer than September had.

Daylight in October

11.5 hours of daylight, losing 0.9 hours across the month. That is between Chandigarh's extremes of 14.1 and 10.2 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

An inland climate

With no coast nearby, the year swings a fair way — 32.4 °C between the warmest afternoons and the coldest nights, wider than any coastal city at this latitude would manage.

How busy it gets

Busy. Popular without being frantic; book the things you care about, improvise the rest.

Crowd levels are estimated from climate desirability and school-holiday calendars, not from visitor numbers.

October in Chandigarh versus nearby

If Chandigarh is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Shimla is a better bet in October — 11.6 °C cooler, the same number of rain days. Ludhiana is the weaker option in October — within a degree on temperature, the same number of rain days.

So: October is a compromise. November is 19 points better and is what Chandigarh is actually like at its best — worth moving the trip for if that is possible, and worth adjusting expectations for if it is not.

Every month in Chandigarh

See all twelve months in Chandigarh, or where else to go in October.