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Torres del Paine in October
ok · worth considering
The year in Torres del Paine
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- JanJTorres del Paine in January: ok, busy
- FebFTorres del Paine in February: sweet spot, busy
- MarMTorres del Paine in March: ok, busy
- AprATorres del Paine in April: avoid
- MayMTorres del Paine in May: avoid
- JunJTorres del Paine in June: avoid
- JulJTorres del Paine in July: avoid
- AugATorres del Paine in August: avoid
- SepSTorres del Paine in September: ok
- OctOTorres del Paine in October: ok
- NovNTorres del Paine in November: ok, busy
- DecDTorres del Paine in December: ok, busy
- Sweet spot
- Good
- OK
- Avoid
- Busy
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The numbers
| Daily high | 10°C |
|---|---|
| Nightly low | 3°C |
| Feels like, afternoon | 6°C |
| Rainy days, 1 mm or more | 15 · 139 mm |
| Humidity | 72% |
| Sunshine | 8.9 h/day |
| Daylight | 13.7 h/day |
| Hiking | 10 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C |
| Crowds | 80 / 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 Puerto Natales, 6 km from the airport (PNT): 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.
Torres del Paine in pictures
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Draceane, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Draceane, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Charles J. Sharp, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
What to pack
- A proper coat, hat and gloves: nights average 3°C.
- Rain gear you will actually use: about 15 rainy days and 139 mm.
- Sun protection: about 9 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 L plugs at 220 V. Drives on the right. The currency is the Chilean peso. No UK Foreign Office advice against travel. Global Affairs Canada: Exercise a high degree of caution. US State Department: Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution. Everything for Chile: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.
On arrival in Torres del Paine: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.
October elsewhere
In October from
The other months at Torres del Paine
- January ok
- February sweet spot
- March ok
- April avoid
- May avoid
- June avoid
- July avoid
- August avoid
- September ok
- October
- November ok
- December ok
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