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Lisbon in October: 2001-2025 climate context and autumn city planning

Read the historical October values at the selected point near Lisbon (2001-2025) and use them to balance viewpoint walks with indoor museum stops.

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Location coordinates: Lisbon (Wikidata, CC0).

Balance mild October viewpoint walks with wet-street alternatives

In the 2001-2025 NASA POWER series, Lisbon’s October mean temperature is 18.6 °C with mean precipitation of 2.6 mm/day, marking the transition from dry summer months (0.1 mm/day in July-August) toward autumn Atlantic fronts.

Because polished calçada Portuguesa cobblestones in Alfama, Graça and Bairro Alto become slippery during rain showers, pair clear days on the hilltops with flat riverfront or metro-linked museum stops when showers arrive.

  • Use clear October mornings and late afternoons for Miradouro de São Pedro de Alcântara, Graça and Belém riverfront walks.
  • Wear shoes with reliable wet-stone grip for stepped lanes between Baixa and Castelo.
  • Keep the Gulbenkian Museum, MAAT or Oceanário de Lisboa ready as indoor swaps on wetter days.

Sources: NASA POWER Climatology API, Lisbon coordinate record

Read the local month comparison

The selected point near Lisbon has a historical mean monthly temperature of 18.6 °C and mean precipitation of 2.6 mm per day. This does not say which days will be wet or what temperature your travel day will reach.

Use the comparison for trip planning

  • Check which named point is relevant to the stops on your actual route.
  • Use mean temperature as background for planning your activities. A monthly mean includes both daytime and night-time conditions.
  • Keep alternatives for weather-dependent plans and check a local forecast close to departure.
  • Do not infer rain hours, rainy-day counts or severe-weather risk from millimetres per day.

Source and processing

NASA POWER climatology, 2001-2025. The values are T2M (mean air temperature at two metres, °C) and PRECTOTCORR (mean corrected precipitation, mm/day). City coordinates come from Wikidata. Selection, month extraction, translation, rounding and table arrangement are changes to the original data. NASA POWER data licence: CC BY 4.0. Coordinates: CC0.

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These historical gridded estimates describe the area around each coordinate. They are not a forecast for a particular trip. Precipitation in millimetres per day is not a count of rainy days.

Lisbon

Reference period 2001-2025 · Coordinates (latitude, longitude) 38.708°, -9.139°

Lisbon (historical monthly values)
MonthMean air temperature at 2 m (°C)Mean precipitation (mm/day)
October18.62.6

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