Average Precipitation for South Carolina in October

The tables below give monthly averages for rainfall during October at cities, towns and parks in South Carolina.

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 precipitation 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: Coast & Lowcountry, Midlands and Upstate.

Coast & Lowcountry

Average monthly precipitation in October
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
8 Beaufort 3.8 96
7 Brookgreen Gardens 5.1 129
7 Charleston 4.3 110
7 Edisto Island 4.3 110
10 McClellanville 4.3 109
8 Moncks Corner 4.1 104
9 North Myrtle Beach 4.2 107

Midlands

October averages for total rainfall
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
7 Columbia 3.1 80
7 Florence 3.4 87
8 Orangeburg 3.5 89
8 Sumter 3.9 99

Upstate South Carolina

Average amount of rain in October
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
7 Anderson 3.3 83
8 Caesars Head State Park 5.6 142
6 Calhoun Falls 3.3 83
7 Gaffney 3.4 87
8 Greenville 3.2 82
8 Greenwood 3.0 77
7 Greer 3.6 91
8 Longcreek 4.8 122
7 Ninety Nine Islands Reservoir 3.1 78
6 Spartanburg 3.9 100
Reference

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

South Carolina Precipitation
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