Weekly note

Bend in October

good · a good time to go

The year in Bend

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  1. Bend in January: avoid
  2. Bend in February: avoid
  3. Bend in March: ok
  4. Bend in April: good
  5. Bend in May: sweet spot
  6. Bend in June: good, busy
  7. Bend in July: good, busy
  8. Bend in August: good, busy
  9. Bend in September: sweet spot
  10. Bend in October: good
  11. Bend in November: ok
  12. Bend in December: avoid
  • Sweet spot
  • Good
  • OK
  • Avoid
  • Busy
October at Bend is 16°C by day and 4°C at night, with 5 rainy days and about 9 hours of sun a day. 16C max, 5 rainy days.

The numbers

Daily high16°C
Nightly low4°C
Feels like, afternoon12°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more5 · 38 mm
Humidity59%
Sunshine8.9 h/day
Daylight11.0 h/day
Crowds100 / 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 downtown, on the Deschutes, 25 km from the airport (RDM): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

October: quieter than usual. Busiest in June, July, August and December; quietest in January, April and November.

Public holidays in October

Holidays crowd a place out and push fares up around them; they count toward the crowd score above.

Bend in pictures

What to pack

  • A proper coat, hat and gloves: nights average 4°C.
  • Sun protection: about 9 hours of sunshine a day.

Each line is a threshold over the ten-year figures above, not advice from anywhere else.

Before you go

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