Weather in Guwahati in October

Shoulder season. October sits in between. You will get good days and you will lose some. The heat itself is manageable at 31.3 °C, but 83% humidity is what you will actually feel.

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

Rain on 11 days, 3 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Natural fibres and a second shirt for the day. At 83% nothing dries, including you.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: 24 days top 30 °C, making the heat continuous rather than occasional. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest October day reached 39.7 °C and the coldest night fell to 16.2 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 108 mm — roughly 80% of the month's rain in one day.

October is moderately variable: 9 mm in the driest year against 315 mm in the wettest, around an average of 135 mm. Roughly two Octobers in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 1.5 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 83%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How October sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 1.8 °C cooler than September, with November dropping another 3.1 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip. Rain is the thing that moves: November brings 9 days less of it, so pushing the dates later buys drier weather.

Daylight in October

11.6 hours of daylight, losing 0.7 hours across the month. That is between Guwahati's extremes of 13.8 and 10.5 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

An inland climate

Despite being inland, the year stays fairly even: 23.4 °C between the year's warmest afternoons and coldest nights.

How busy it gets

Quiet. Few other visitors, cheaper rooms, and a real chance some seasonal operators are shut.

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

October in Guwahati versus nearby

If Guwahati is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Dārjiling is a better bet in October — 13.6 °C cooler, 2 days less rain. Kolkata is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 3 days more rain.

So: October is a compromise. January is 42 points better and is what Guwahati 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 Guwahati

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