Weekly note
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Photo by 總統府, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The numbers

Daily high25°C
Nightly low18°C
Feels like, afternoon29°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more12 · 179 mm
Humidity85%
Sunshine9.9 h/day
Daylight11.6 h/day
Crowds54 / 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 Shuishe village, on the lake: ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

October: busier than usual. Busiest in November and December; quietest in August.

Public holidays in October

Holidays crowd a place out; they count toward the crowd score above.

Sun Moon Lake in pictures

What to pack

  • Rain gear you will actually use: about 12 rainy days and 179 mm.
  • Sun protection: about 10 hours of sunshine a day.
  • Humidity averages 85%; 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 110 V. Drives on the right. The currency is the New taiwan dollar. No UK Foreign Office advice against travel. Everything for Taiwan: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.

On arrival in Sun Moon Lake: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.

October elsewhere

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