Weather in Warsaw in October

Shoulder season. October sits in between. You will get good days and you will lose some. Highs sit at 13.5 °C and the day is short; this is an indoors-with-excursions month, not an outdoors-all-day one.

October ranks 7 of 12 in Warsaw: 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, 1 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Layers, and a genuinely waterproof outer — at 13.5 °C the difference between a good day and a miserable one is entirely down to what you are wearing.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: 4 nights fall below freezing. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest October day reached 24.7 °C and the coldest night fell to -7.6 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 36 mm — roughly 73% of the month's rain in one day.

October is moderately variable: 7 mm in the driest year against 128 mm in the wettest, around an average of 49 mm. Roughly two Octobers in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 10.4 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 82%, which at 13.5 °C means damp rather than muggy — the kind of cold that gets into a coat and stays there.

How October sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 6.9 °C cooler than September, with November dropping another 6.8 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip.

Daylight in October

10.8 hours of daylight, losing 2 hours across the month. That is between Warsaw's extremes of 16.7 and 7.8 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

An inland climate

With no coast nearby, the year swings a fair way — 32.5 °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 Warsaw versus nearby

If Warsaw is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Kraków is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day more rain. Gdańsk is the weaker option in October — within a degree on temperature, 4 days more rain.

So: October is a compromise. September is 20 points better and is what Warsaw 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 Warsaw

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