Average Sunshine in Texas for October

Number of Sunny Days

In the table below, the average number of Sunny Days for a city in Texas is the total days this month when the sky is mostly clear. This includes the days when cloud covers up to 30% of the sky during daylight hours.

Partly Sunny Days have cloud covering from 40% to 70% of the sky during the daytime.

Total Days With Sun is a sum of the Sunny plus Partly Sunny days. The rest of the days are mainly overcast, with at least 80% cloud cover. All the numbers are annual averages, made from years of weather watching.

Days of sunshine in October
City Sunny
Days
Partly Sunny
Days
Total Days
With Sun
Abilene 15 7 22
Amarillo 17 7 24
Austin City 12 9 21
Brownsville 11 12 23
Corpus Christi 12 10 22
Dallas-Fort Worth 14 7 21
Del Rio 12 8 20
El Paso 19 7 26
Houston 11 9 20
Lubbock 17 7 24
Midland-Odessa 17 6 23
Port Arthur 12 10 22
San Angelo 15 7 22
San Antonio 11 10 21
Victoria 11 10 21
Waco 13 8 21
Wichita Falls 15 7 22

Amount of Sun

Here's another way to look at how much sunshine a city gets. The % Sun number measures the percentage of time between sunrise and sunset that sunshine reaches the ground. Again, these amounts are monthly averages based on many years of weather observations.

Percent sunshine for October
City % Sun
Abilene 72
Amarillo 75
Austin City 64
Austin-Bergstrom Airport 63
Brownsville 65
Corpus Christi 67
Dallas-Fort Worth 63
El Paso 84
Galveston 71
Houston 64
Lubbock 75
Midland-Odessa 72
Port Arthur 67
San Antonio 64
Reference

National Climatic Data Center. Comparative Climatic Data.

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