Weather in Valladolid in October

Prime time. If you get to pick your dates, October is the one. Highs average 20.3 °C, lows 8.6 °C, and rain falls on 9 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

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

Rain on 9 days, 2 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 30.8 °C and the coldest night fell to -0.8 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 47 mm — roughly 80% of the month's rain in one day.

October is statistically steady but not small: the year-to-year variation is modest in relative terms, yet the wettest October on record still delivered 111 mm against 9 mm in the driest. In a month this wet, even a tame spread is a lot of rain in absolute terms — the 59 mm average is a reasonable planning figure, not a promise.

Wind is light at 9.8 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 69%.

How October sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 5.9 °C cooler than September, with November dropping another 6.9 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip.

Daylight in October

11.2 hours of daylight, losing 1.3 hours across the month. That is between Valladolid's extremes of 15.2 and 9.2 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

An inland climate

With no coast nearby, the year swings a fair way — 30.3 °C between the warmest afternoons and the coldest nights, wider than any coastal city at this latitude would manage. At 702 m the air is thin enough to matter — sun that burns faster than the temperature suggests, and nights that cool off quickly.

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 Valladolid versus nearby

If Valladolid is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Madrid is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, the same number of rain days. Gasteiz / Vitoria is the weaker option in October — within a degree on temperature, 3 days more rain.

So: October works, with September the better month by 9 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

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