Weather in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in October

Prime time. If you get to pick your dates, October is the one. Highs average 23.9 °C, lows 21.5 °C, and rain falls on 5 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria barely has seasons. October scores 92 out of 100 against a best of 100 in June — a gap small enough that the month you choose matters far less here than the week you choose.

Rain falls on only 5 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. 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 — 2.4 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest October day reached 29.4 °C and the coldest night fell to 18.7 °C.

October is moderately variable: 1 mm in the driest year against 30 mm in the wettest, around an average of 17 mm. Roughly two Octobers in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind sits around 16.2 km/h — a steady breeze rather than a nuisance, and welcome on the warmer days, and humidity runs at 78%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How October sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 24.3 °C in September, 23.9 here, 21.9 in November. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in October

11.5 hours of daylight, losing 0.8 hours across the month. That is between Las Palmas de Gran Canaria's extremes of 13.9 and 10.4 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 23.7 °C in October — comfortable for a proper swim. This is the warmest the water gets all year.

How busy it gets

Quiet. Few other visitors, cheaper rooms, and a real chance some seasonal operators are shut. October is the value pick for Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: it scores within 8 points of June without carrying June's prices.

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

October in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria versus nearby

If Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Funchal is close enough to be a coin toss — 2.4 °C cooler, 4 days more rain. Agadir is the weaker option in October — 7 °C warmer, 2 days less rain.

So: October works, with June the better month by 8 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

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