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Chios in October
sweet spot · one of the best months to go
The year in Chios
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- JanJChios in January: ok
- FebFChios in February: ok
- MarMChios in March: good
- AprAChios in April: sweet spot
- MayMChios in May: sweet spot
- JunJChios in June: sweet spot, busy
- JulJChios in July: ok, busy
- AugAChios in August: ok, busy
- SepSChios in September: sweet spot
- OctOChios in October: sweet spot
- NovNChios in November: good
- DecDChios in December: ok
- Sweet spot
- Good
- OK
- Avoid
- Busy
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The numbers
| Daily high | 23°C |
|---|---|
| Nightly low | 16°C |
| Feels like, afternoon | 23°C |
| Rainy days, 1 mm or more | 3 · 44 mm |
| Humidity | 73% |
| Sunshine | 9.9 h/day |
| Daylight | 11.2 h/day |
| 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 Chios town, the port: 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.
Chios in pictures
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pocketcultures, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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AlekH at English Wikipedia, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
What to pack
- Sun protection: about 10 hours of sunshine a day.
Each line is a threshold over the ten-year figures above, not advice from anywhere else.
Before you go
Type C and F plugs at 230 V. Drives on the right. The currency is the Euro. No UK Foreign Office advice against travel. Global Affairs Canada: Exercise normal security precautions. US State Department: Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions. Everything for Greece: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.
On arrival in Chios: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.
October elsewhere
In October from
The other months at Chios
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