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Acadia in October
sweet spot · one of the best months to go
The year in Acadia
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- JanJAcadia in January: avoid
- FebFAcadia in February: avoid
- MarMAcadia in March: avoid
- AprAAcadia in April: ok
- MayMAcadia in May: sweet spot
- JunJAcadia in June: sweet spot, busy
- JulJAcadia in July: sweet spot, busy
- AugAAcadia in August: sweet spot, busy
- SepSAcadia in September: sweet spot, busy
- OctOAcadia in October: sweet spot
- NovNAcadia in November: ok
- DecDAcadia in December: avoid
- Sweet spot
- Good
- OK
- Avoid
- Busy
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The numbers
| Daily high | 15°C |
|---|---|
| Nightly low | 9°C |
| Feels like, afternoon | 12°C |
| Rainy days, 1 mm or more | 9 · 124 mm |
| Humidity | 79% |
| Sunshine | 7.3 h/day |
| Daylight | 11.0 h/day |
| Hiking | 20 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C fair |
| Crowds | 100 / 100, higher is quieter |
Ten-year averages for this calendar month. A rainy day is one with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts it. The model these figures come from drizzles more than a rain gauge, the more so the warmer the month, so its days count from 2 mm, rising to 5 mm in the hottest.
Weather read at Bar Harbor, the gateway town, 14 km from the airport (BHB): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.
How busy it gets
Public holidays in October
Holidays crowd a place out; they count toward the crowd score above.
Acadia in pictures
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King of Hearts, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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King of Hearts, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Jana Roubova at Czech Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons
What to pack
- Warm layers for the evenings, which drop to about 9°C.
- A packable rain jacket for the 9 or so rainy days.
- Humidity averages 79%; breathable fabrics dry faster.
Each line is a threshold over the ten-year figures above, not advice from anywhere else.
Before you go
Type A and B plugs at 120 V. Drives on the right. The currency is the United states dollar. No UK Foreign Office advice against travel. Global Affairs Canada: Exercise normal security precautions. Everything for United States: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.
On arrival in Acadia: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.
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In October from
The other months at Acadia
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