Weather in Gijón in October

A good month. October works. It is not the peak, but nothing about it fights you. Highs average 21.4 °C, lows 14 °C, and rain falls on 13 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

October ranks 6 of 12 in Gijón: past the worst of the year but short of July, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain on 13 days, 3 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Nothing specialised needed — this is the month you pack for the trip rather than for the weather.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: it never really gets hot: not one day in an average October reaches 30 °C. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest October day reached 31 °C and the coldest night fell to 7.8 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 63 mm — roughly 69% of the month's rain in one day.

October is moderately variable: 19 mm in the driest year against 219 mm in the wettest, around an average of 91 mm. Roughly two Octobers in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 10.3 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 74%.

How October sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 2.8 °C cooler than September, with November dropping another 5.2 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip.

Daylight in October

11.1 hours of daylight, losing 1.4 hours across the month. That is between Gijón's extremes of 15.4 and 9 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 18.2 °C in October — swimmable, but it takes a moment to commit. The sea peaks at 20.9 °C in August and bottoms out at 12.5 °C — water lags the air by a month or two, which is why the best swimming often comes after the best weather.

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 Gijón versus nearby

If Gijón is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Valladolid is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 4 days less rain. Bilbao is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day less rain.

So: October works, with July the better month by 11 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

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