Average October Temperatures for Virginia

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

Average Temperatures for Virginia in October

Virginia's Mountains

Piedmont Virginia

Coastal Virginia

Reference

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