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Where to go in October

What is actually pleasant in October — by average temperature and rainy days, not by feel. The numbers are climate normals, the same for every place.

Cities

Fez

Morocco

21°C5 rainy days

Ephesus

Turkey

20°C3 rainy days

Catania

Italy

21°C7 rainy days

El Jem

Tunisia

22°C3 rainy days

Athens

Greece

19°C3 rainy days

Seville

Spain

21°C8 rainy days

Windhoek

Namibia

23°C2 rainy days

Valencia

Spain

20°C6 rainy days

Coast

Hurghada

Egypt

27°C0 rainy days

Sharm el-Sheikh

Egypt

29°C0 rainy days

Dahab

Egypt

29°C0 rainy days

Djerba

Tunisia

24°C2 rainy days

Nature and mountains

Ait Ben Haddou

Morocco

19°C2 rainy days

Pamukkale

Turkey

20°C2 rainy days

Masai Mara

Kenya

19°C4 rainy days

Mendoza

Argentina

19°C4 rainy days

Meteora

Greece

20°C4 rainy days

San Pedro de Atacama

Chile

17°C0 rainy days

Pompeii

Italy

19°C8 rainy days

Chefchaouen

Morocco

19°C8 rainy days

Pleasant, and off season

The weather holds but the crowds and prices have dropped — the month where the same destination costs less than at peak.

Hurghada

Egypt

27°C0 rainy days

Ait Ben Haddou

Morocco

19°C2 rainy days

Pamukkale

Turkey

20°C2 rainy days

Masai Mara

Kenya

19°C4 rainy days

Mendoza

Argentina

19°C4 rainy days

Fez

Morocco

21°C5 rainy days

Temperatures and rainy days are climate normals from `content_geo.py`, the same for all 214 places. “Pleasant” means: a city at 12–26°C with at most 10 rainy days, coast above 24°C with at most 6, mountains 8–24°C with at most 10.

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Chouara Tannery - 154 - Marokko Handybilder 2018 - Fes (27347707917) — Uwe Brodrecht, CC BY-SA 2.0
The library of Celsus, Ephesus — Slyronit, CC BY-SA 4.0
Catania-etna — Dror Feitelson, CC BY-SA 4.0
Amfiteatre d'El Djem - interior — Josep Renalias Lohen11, CC BY 4.0
Acropolis Parthenon Athens Greece — Jebulon, CC0
Plaza de Espana, Seville — Dokkolo, CC BY-SA 4.0
Windhuk Independence Avenue 1 — Zairon, CC BY-SA 4.0
Museu de les Ciències Príncipe Felipe, Valencia, August 2026 — Esniom, CC BY-SA 4.0
Medina of Kairouan 17042022 004 — Yamen, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Bardo Museum(102) — Sinda BF, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Piazza Sant'Oronzo (Lecce) — Bernard Gagnon, CC0
Yu Gardens 20090724-03 — Hans A. Rosbach, CC BY-SA 3.0
Alhambra - Granada 1 — Jim Gordon, CC BY 2.0
2014-11-20 15h50 Orlando Power Station Soweto anagoria — Anagoria, CC BY 3.0
Dotonbori, Osaka, at night, November 2016 — Martin Falbisoner, CC BY-SA 4.0
Capela dos Ossos - Apr 2011 — Ken & Nyetta, CC BY 2.0
The White Tower of Thessaloniki - 2 — Annatsach, CC BY-SA 4.0
Vicolo di pulcinella — Gigi sorrentino, CC BY-SA 3.0
Miradouro das Portas do Sol Lisbon Alfama overview pano — Dicklyon, CC BY-SA 4.0
Blue Mosque, Istanbul Turkey — Joshua Doubek, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Piazza Popolo Ravenna — Incola, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Aït Benhaddou view from above — Elena Tatiana Chis, CC BY-SA 4.0
Pamukkale Hierapolis Travertine pools — Pvasiliadis, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Via dell'Abbondanza (Pompeii) — Rabax63, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Hiking in the Fish River Canyon - panoramio — Roelf, CC BY-SA 3.0
Arusha Clock Tower with bodaboda — Hilda Raphael, CC0
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Swakopmund Woermannhaus 1 — Zairon, CC BY-SA 4.0
Cape Cross Seal Colony, RTW 2012 (8395938208) — Ana Raquel S. Hernandes from Sao Paulo, Brazil, CC BY-SA 2.0
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Above Moroccan Dunes — Patricia Ilizaliturri, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Village of Gordes — Einaz80, CC BY-SA 4.0
Top of Siena Cathedral Facade — Eric Kilby, CC BY-SA 2.0
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Dolná Brána — Robert Jahoda, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Telc 19 — Scotch Mist, CC BY-SA 4.0
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