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Photo by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Cartagena in October
sweet spot · one of the best months to go · the coolest month of the year, the wettest month of the year
The year in Cartagena
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- JanJCartagena in January: sweet spot, busy
- FebFCartagena in February: sweet spot, busy
- MarMCartagena in March: ok, busy
- AprACartagena in April: sweet spot
- MayMCartagena in May: ok
- JunJCartagena in June: sweet spot
- JulJCartagena in July: sweet spot
- AugACartagena in August: sweet spot
- SepSCartagena in September: sweet spot
- OctOCartagena in October: sweet spot
- NovNCartagena in November: sweet spot
- DecDCartagena in December: sweet spot
- Sweet spot
- Good
- OK
- Avoid
- Busy
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The numbers
| Daily high | 29°C |
|---|---|
| Nightly low | 25°C |
| Feels like, afternoon | 35°C |
| Rainy days, 1 mm or more | 13 · 178 mm |
| Humidity | 84% |
| Sunshine | 9.1 h/day |
| Daylight | 11.9 h/day |
| Beach and sea | 18 of 31 days dry and 23–35 °C; sea 30 °C, warm 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 the walled city: 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 and push fares up around them; they count toward the crowd score above.
Cartagena in pictures
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Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Igvir Ramirez, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
What to pack
- Summer clothes by day, highs around 29°C.
- Rain gear you will actually use: about 13 rainy days and 178 mm.
- Sun protection: about 9 hours of sunshine a day.
- Humidity averages 84%; 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 110 V. Drives on the right. The currency is the Colombian peso. UK Foreign Office: avoid all but essential travel to parts. Global Affairs Canada: Exercise a high degree of caution (with regional advisories). US State Department: Level 3: Reconsider Travel. Everything for Colombia: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.
On arrival in Cartagena: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.
October elsewhere
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The other months at Cartagena
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