Weekly note

Fortaleza in October

sweet spot · one of the best months to go · the driest month of the year

The year in Fortaleza

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  1. Fortaleza in January: good, busy
  2. Fortaleza in February: ok
  3. Fortaleza in March: avoid
  4. Fortaleza in April: avoid
  5. Fortaleza in May: good
  6. Fortaleza in June: sweet spot
  7. Fortaleza in July: sweet spot
  8. Fortaleza in August: sweet spot
  9. Fortaleza in September: sweet spot
  10. Fortaleza in October: sweet spot
  11. Fortaleza in November: good, busy
  12. Fortaleza in December: sweet spot
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  • Busy
October at Fortaleza is 31°C by day and 25°C at night, with 0 rainy days and about 12 hours of sun a day. 31C max, 0 rainy days.

The numbers

Daily high31°C
Nightly low25°C
Feels like, afternoon33°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more0 · 13 mm
Humidity71%
Sunshine11.5 h/day
Daylight12.2 h/day
Beach and sea31 of 31 days dry and 23–35 °C; sea 27 °C, warm good
Crowds89 / 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 Meireles and Iracema beaches, 5 km from the airport (FOR): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

October: about usual. Busiest in November; quietest in April and June.

Public holidays in October

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

Fortaleza in pictures

What to pack

  • Summer clothes by day, highs around 31°C.
  • Sun protection: about 12 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 plugs at 127 / 220 V. Drives on the right. The currency is the Brazilian real. UK Foreign Office: avoid all but essential travel to parts. Everything for Brazil: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.

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

October elsewhere

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