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Guilin and Yangshuo in October
sweet spot busy · one of the best months to go · the driest month of the year
The year in Guilin and Yangshuo
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- JanJGuilin and Yangshuo in January: ok
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- MarMGuilin and Yangshuo in March: ok
- AprAGuilin and Yangshuo in April: ok
- MayMGuilin and Yangshuo in May: ok
- JunJGuilin and Yangshuo in June: avoid
- JulJGuilin and Yangshuo in July: avoid
- AugAGuilin and Yangshuo in August: avoid, busy
- SepSGuilin and Yangshuo in September: ok
- OctOGuilin and Yangshuo in October: sweet spot, busy
- NovNGuilin and Yangshuo in November: sweet spot
- DecDGuilin and Yangshuo in December: sweet spot
- Sweet spot
- Good
- OK
- Avoid
- Busy
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The numbers
| Daily high | 27°C |
|---|---|
| Nightly low | 18°C |
| Feels like, afternoon | 29°C |
| Rainy days, 1 mm or more | 5 · 66 mm |
| Humidity | 70% |
| Sunshine | 8.3 h/day |
| Daylight | 11.6 h/day |
| Days over 35°C | 1 |
| Crowds | 60 / 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 Yangshuo, on the Li River (60 km): 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.
Guilin and Yangshuo in pictures
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HALUK COMERTEL, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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HALUK COMERTEL, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Manon Boyer manonboyer, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
What to pack
- Summer clothes by day, highs around 27°C.
- Sun protection: about 8 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 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. Global Affairs Canada: Exercise a high degree of caution (with regional advisories). US State Department: Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution. Everything for China: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.
On arrival in Guilin and Yangshuo: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.
October elsewhere
In October from
The other months at Guilin and Yangshuo
- January ok
- February ok
- March ok
- April ok
- May ok
- June avoid
- July avoid
- August avoid
- September ok
- October
- November sweet spot
- December sweet spot
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