The sun-drenched Cape Verde has a subtropical dry climate. This means that you can enjoy great weather in October on the Cape Verde islands. The heat of summer is still present in October. The ever-present and cooling trade winds on the archipelago ensure that it is very pleasant in Cape Verde despite the high temperature. In October there is a chance of violent showers and the sun still shines generously; for the sunshine hours by month see the climate table.

What kind of weather can you expect in Cape Verde in October? Below you will find the averages of the most important meteorological variables. These are the average daytime maximum, the sea temperature and the days of rain, as the climate table gives them. The weather data for the month of October is based on historical weather data and does not provide an actual weather forecast for Cape Verde.

In short

  • Temperatures 29.6°C
  • Rain decreases towards the end of the month
  • Warm and humid
  • Sea temperature 27°C
  • Mostly sunny days

Temperature in October

The average daytime maximum stays high in October: 29.6 degrees Celsius, the same as August.

Maximum temperature in October - Cape Verde

Maximum temperature — day by day within the month

Rain in October

October stands at 1 day of rain in the climate table. Early in the month a tropical shower can drop a lot of water in a short time.

Rain in October - Cape Verde

Rainfall — day by day within the month

Wind in October

October is a relatively calm month for wind. What wind there is comes more often off Africa, which nudges the warmth up. The climate table carries no wind values.

The weather in Cape Verde in other months

Data accounting

Every figure on this page comes from the climate table on Cape Verde climate and weather: measuring station Sal, Amílcar Cabral airport (Espargos), reference period the 1991–2020 climate normal. A day of rain is a day with at least 1 millimetre of rainfall. Those values hold for Sal and for the flat eastern islands. The other islands have no measuring series of their own, so we give no figures island by island. On the mountainous islands such as Santo Antão and Fogo it is cooler and wetter at altitude.

The graph above shows something different from the table: how the month runs day by day, taken from the historical daily reports of weather station 85940 over 2012 to 2018. That series is not a climate normal and is not the source of any figure in the text; it is there to show whether a month runs flat or erratic.