Weather in Surat in October

Shoulder season. October is shoulder season in Surat — cheaper, quieter, and a genuine gamble. Highs average 33 °C, lows 22.1 °C, and rain falls on 6 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

October ranks 4 of 12 in Surat: past the worst of the year but short of January, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain falls on only 6 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. Pack for 33 °C days and 22.1 °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: 5 days clear 35 °C, so a serious heatwave is normal rather than notable. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest October day reached 39 °C and the coldest night fell to 16.4 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 58 mm — roughly 135% of the month's rain in one day.

This is the volatile part. October rainfall has ranged from 0 mm to 170 mm across the twenty years measured — a 170 mm spread around an average of 43 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 70%.

How October sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 30.6 °C in September, 33 here, 34.1 in November. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much. Rain has already shifted: 12 days fewer than September had.

Daylight in October

11.7 hours of daylight, losing 0.6 hours across the month. That is between Surat's extremes of 13.4 and 10.9 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 29.2 °C in October — warm enough that the water offers no relief from the heat. The sea peaks at 29.7 °C in June and bottoms out at 24.4 °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

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 Surat versus nearby

If Surat is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Nashik is a better bet in October — 4.2 °C cooler, 3 days more rain. Virār is close enough to be a coin toss — 3.3 °C cooler, 4 days more rain.

So: October works, with January the better month by 12 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

Every month in Surat

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