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Chengdu in October

okbusy · worth considering

The year in Chengdu

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  1. Chengdu in January: ok
  2. Chengdu in February: ok
  3. Chengdu in March: sweet spot
  4. Chengdu in April: sweet spot
  5. Chengdu in May: sweet spot
  6. Chengdu in June: sweet spot
  7. Chengdu in July: ok
  8. Chengdu in August: ok
  9. Chengdu in September: ok
  10. Chengdu in October: ok, busy
  11. Chengdu in November: sweet spot
  12. Chengdu in December: ok
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October at Chengdu is 21°C by day and 15°C at night, with 10 rainy days and about 4 hours of sun a day. Busier than usual.

The numbers

Daily high21°C
Nightly low15°C
Feels like, afternoon21°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more10 · 63 mm
Humidity80%
Sunshine4.0 h/day
Daylight11.4 h/day
Crowds45 / 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 centre, 16 km from the airport (CTU): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

October: busy. Busiest in October; quietest from December to February.

Public holidays in October

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

Chengdu in pictures

What to pack

  • A packable rain jacket for the 10 or so rainy days.
  • Humidity averages 80%; 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 C and I plugs at 220 V. Drives on the right. The currency is the Renminbi. No UK Foreign Office advice against travel. Everything for China: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.

On arrival in Chengdu: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.

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