Best weather in October
The 15 countries whose October comes closest to comfortable travel weather, scored from ten years of ERA5 data. Open any of them for the month in detail — regional breakdown, the rest of the year, and current travel-advisory levels.
Scored against the default profile: days 22–30 °C, nights 12–22 °C, no more than light rain, at least 6 hours of sun. Set your own on the map — averages, not a forecast.
- Cyprus in OctoberAsia26°C26 mm7.5 h sunAll year
- Mauritius in OctoberAfrica25°C36 mm8.9 h sunAll year
- Madagascar in OctoberAfrica30°C41 mm8.8 h sunAll year
- South Africa in OctoberAfrica27°C36 mm8.6 h sunAll year
- Morocco in OctoberAfrica28°C19 mm8.0 h sunAll year
- Comoros in OctoberAfrica27°C38 mm9.1 h sunAll year
- Tunisia in OctoberAfrica28°C18 mm7.3 h sunAll year
- Lebanon in OctoberAsia25°C25 mm7.6 h sunAll year
- Pakistan in OctoberAsia28°C14 mm8.6 h sunAll year
- Iran in OctoberAsia27°C13 mm8.4 h sunAll year
- Australia in OctoberOceania23°C55 mm8.0 h sunAll year
- Syria in OctoberAsia29°C9 mm7.9 h sunAll year
- Jordan in OctoberAsia29°C3 mm8.5 h sunAll year
- Malawi in OctoberAfrica30°C21 mm9.5 h sunAll year
- Mexico in OctoberNorth America28°C83 mm7.1 h sunAll year
How this ranking works
Every country’s October is scored on three things: mean temperature, rainfall per day and sunshine hours, each averaged over ten years of ERA5 reanalysis. The score is the same one the map paints and the country pages print — a country cannot look better here than it does on its own page.
Countries that score identically are ordered by how far inside the comfortable range they sit, so a country in the middle of the band comes before one at its edge. Averages describe a typical October; they are not a forecast for the week you travel, and a national figure hides a lot in a large country — open a country to see its regions.