Average Rainfall for Tennessee in October

The tables below give monthly averages for rainfall during October at cities and towns in Tennessee.

Each place has a total for the amount of precipitation it usually receives this month. There is also a count of the number of days with wet weather, when precipitation amounts to 0.01 inches (0.25 millimetres) or more.

The rainfall totals are averages based on weather data collected from 1991 to 2020 for the US National Centers for Environmental Information.

You can jump to a separate table for each region of the state: Eastern, Middle and Western Tennessee.

Eastern Tennessee

Average monthly precipitation in October
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
8 Athens 3.6 91
9 Bristol 2.5 64
8 Chattanooga 3.6 91
9 Cleveland 3.5 89
9 Crossville 3.1 80
8 Dayton 3.6 92
10 Gatlinburg 3.2 81
9 Greeneville 2.7 69
8 Kingsport 2.4 62
8 Knoxville 2.8 71
8 Lookout Mountain 3.8 96
9 Morristown 2.7 69
7 Mountain City 2.8 71
8 Oak Ridge 3.3 84
9 Oneida 3.3 84
8 Sevierville 2.9 74

Middle Tennessee

October averages for total rainfall
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
7 Cheatham Lake Dam 3.8 96
9 Clarksville 4.3 109
8 Columbia 3.8 96
9 Cookeville 3.4 85
7 Dover 3.8 97
9 Monteagle 4.1 104
10 Murfreesboro 3.5 88
8 Nashville 3.4 85
8 Shelbyville 3.7 93
9 Tullahoma 3.8 96

Western Tennessee

Average amount of rain in October
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
8 Dyersburg 4.2 106
9 Jackson 4.0 101
8 Martin 4.0 101
8 Memphis 4.0 101
8 Savannah 3.9 99
Reference

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). Climate Normals.

Tennessee Precipitation
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