Weather in Varanasi in October

A good month. October is a solid month to be in Varanasi. Highs average 32 °C, lows 20.4 °C, and rain falls on 4 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

October ranks 5 of 12 in Varanasi: past the worst of the year but short of December, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain falls on only 4 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. Pack for 32 °C days and 20.4 °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: 26 days top 30 °C, making the heat continuous rather than occasional. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest October day reached 39 °C and the coldest night fell to 12.8 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 58 mm — roughly 171% of the month's rain in one day.

This is the volatile part. October rainfall has ranged from 1 mm to 144 mm across the twenty years measured — a 143 mm spread around an average of 34 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 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 68%.

How October sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 32.3 °C in September, 32 here, 29 in November. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much. Rain has already shifted: 12 days fewer than September had.

Daylight in October

11.6 hours of daylight, losing 0.7 hours across the month. That is between Varanasi's extremes of 13.7 and 10.6 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

An inland climate

With no coast nearby, the year swings a fair way — 34.1 °C between the warmest afternoons and the coldest nights, wider than any coastal city at this latitude would manage.

How busy it gets

Shoulder. The value months — prices ease off and you get the place closer to itself.

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

October in Varanasi versus nearby

If Varanasi is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Patna is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 2 days more rain. Kanpur is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, the same number of rain days.

So: October is a compromise. December is 28 points better and is what Varanasi 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 Varanasi

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