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Turku in October

avoid · not the best time to go

The year in Turku

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  4. Turku in April: ok
  5. Turku in May: sweet spot
  6. Turku in June: good, busy
  7. Turku in July: good, busy
  8. Turku in August: ok, busy
  9. Turku in September: good
  10. Turku in October: avoid
  11. Turku in November: avoid
  12. Turku in December: avoid
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  • Good
  • OK
  • Avoid
  • Busy
October at Turku is 10°C by day and 5°C at night, with 11 rainy days and about 5 hours of sun a day. 10C max, 11 rainy days.

The numbers

Daily high10°C
Nightly low5°C
Feels like, afternoon7°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more11 · 90 mm
Humidity87%
Sunshine5.1 h/day
Daylight10.1 h/day
Crowds100 / 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 the centre, on the river Aura, 7 km from the airport (TKU): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

October: quieter than usual. Busiest from June to August; quietest from December to April.

Public holidays in October

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

Turku in pictures

What to pack

  • A proper coat, hat and gloves: nights average 5°C.
  • A packable rain jacket for the 11 or so rainy days.
  • Humidity averages 87%; breathable fabrics dry faster.

Each line is a threshold over the ten-year figures above, not advice from anywhere else.

Before you go

Type C and F plugs at 230 V. Drives on the right. The currency is the Euro. No UK Foreign Office advice against travel. Everything for Finland: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.

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

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