Fire Island in October
sweet spot · one of the best months to go
The year in Fire Island
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- JanJFire Island in January: avoid
- FebFFire Island in February: avoid
- MarMFire Island in March: ok
- AprAFire Island in April: good
- MayMFire Island in May: sweet spot
- JunJFire Island in June: good, busy
- JulJFire Island in July: good, busy
- AugAFire Island in August: good, busy
- SepSFire Island in September: sweet spot
- OctOFire Island in October: sweet spot
- NovNFire Island in November: ok
- DecDFire Island in December: ok
- Sweet spot
- Good
- OK
- Avoid
- Busy
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The numbers
| Daily high | 18°C |
|---|---|
| Nightly low | 12°C |
| Feels like, afternoon | 17°C |
| Rainy days, 1 mm or more | 8 · 131 mm |
| Humidity | 76% |
| Sunshine | 8.0 h/day |
| Daylight | 11.1 h/day |
| Beach and sea | 1 of 31 days dry and 23–35 °C; sea 18 °C, cold |
| 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 Ocean Beach, the main village: 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.
Fire Island in pictures
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Skip willits, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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Erik Anestad from USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Jeff Pearce, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
What to pack
- A packable rain jacket for the 8 or so rainy days.
- Humidity averages 76%; 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 Fire Island: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.
October elsewhere
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