Weather in Kitakyushu in October

Prime time. If you get to pick your dates, October is the one. Highs average 21.9 °C, lows 17.9 °C, and rain falls on 9 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

October is the highest-scoring month of the twelve. The nearest rival is May, and the month at the other end of the year is January.

Rain on 9 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; the day barely swings — 4.1 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest October day reached 28.1 °C and the coldest night fell to 10.2 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 79 mm — roughly 74% of the month's rain in one day.

October is moderately variable: 21 mm in the driest year against 291 mm in the wettest, around an average of 107 mm. Roughly two Octobers in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 15.6 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: 4.5 °C cooler than September, with November dropping another 4.9 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip. Rain has already shifted: 5 days fewer than September had.

Daylight in October

11.4 hours of daylight, losing 1 hours across the month. That is between Kitakyushu's extremes of 14.4 and 9.9 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 23.2 °C in October — comfortable for a proper swim. The sea peaks at 27.4 °C in August and bottoms out at 14.4 °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

Peak season. Expect the highest prices of the year and to be booking well ahead.

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

October in Kitakyushu versus nearby

If Kitakyushu is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Fukuoka is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, the same number of rain days. Hiroshima is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day more rain.

So: October is the answer for Kitakyushu. If it is booked out or priced out, May is the next best thing at 4 points behind, and January is the month to keep off the shortlist.

Every month in Kitakyushu

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