Average Temperatures for Virginia in October

Average temperatures for October at cities and other locations throughout Virginia are listed below in degrees Fahrenheit and Celsius.

You can jump to a separate table for each region of the state: Coastal Virginia in the east, Piedmont or central Virginia, and the Mountains, including the Shenandoah Valley in the northwest and the Appalachian Mountains of southwest Virginia.

The tables give the normals for maximum and minimum temperatures based on weather data collected from 1991 to 2020 by the US National Centers for Environmental Information.

Virginia's Mountains

Average October temperatures
High °F Low °F Place High °C Low °C
69 43 Abingdon 20 6
66 41 Blacksburg 19 5
63 38 Burkes Garden 17 3
65 41 Galax 19 5
67 43 Harrisonburg 19 6
64 41 Hot Springs 18 5
64 46 Mount Weather 18 8
71 42 Pennington Gap 21 5
70 48 Roanoke 21 9
66 44 Staunton 19 7
66 45 Winchester 19 7
66 44 Wise 19 7

Piedmont Virginia

Average daily temperatures in October
High °F Low °F Place High °C Low °C
69 52 Arlington 21 11
69 49 Charlottesville 20 9
72 46 Danville 22 8
70 46 Fredericksburg 21 8
74 49 John H Kerr Dam 23 9
69 45 Lynchburg 21 7
71 43 Martinsville 22 6
72 48 Petersburg 22 9
71 46 Philpott Lake Dam 22 8
71 49 Richmond 22 9

Coastal Virginia

October temperatures: daily averages
High °F Low °F Place High °C Low °C
69 53 Cape Charles 20 12
71 51 Newport News 22 11
72 55 Norfolk 22 13
69 51 North River 20 10
71 51 Painter 22 11
71 52 Suffolk 21 11
69 51 Wallops Island 21 11
71 51 Williamsburg 22 11
Reference

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

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