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Weather and climate, mountains and lakes, monuments, festivals, concerts and the night sky for 4,917,084 places in 197 countries.

4,917,084places
89,786summits
351,049monuments
61,777museums

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Seven doors into the same world: each one opens country by country, then place by place.

Where to go in October

The places with the best weather this month, scored from their climate: warmth, sun and dry days.

All the best places in October

The Earth right now

Northern lights, earthquakes, storms, wildfires and the sky — updated every 15 minutes.

Open the live map

Weather around the world right now

The extremes among our places at this hour, from the latest forecast run.

Weather of every place

Countries in the atlas

Every town and village with its climate, and the country's monuments, summits and best months.

All 197 countries

Records of the atlas

The highest, the largest and the longest among everything the atlas maps.

All records

Out in the open

Hiking routes with their distance, climb and time, and everything to do outdoors, counted.

Monuments everyone knows

351,049 monuments and 61,777 museums, with their history, style and when to visit.

All monuments

Festivals in October

Concerts, matches and holidays

60 football matches this week, the next concerts and each country's next public holiday.

Event calendar

The sky, the year ahead

Eclipses, meteor shower peaks and full moons, with the hours for every town.

Sky calendar

Plan with the atlas

The climate map

Every place scored for the month and the trip you pick.

Month score
050100
Comfort, dry days and sunshine; the beach score adds the sea.
Live · nowBeijing
11°
Cloudy now
Wind9 km/h
Humidity62%
Cloud cover95%
Today
22 Oct
16°
5°
Fri
23 Oct
15°
7°
Sat
24 Oct
18°
9°

Model run 00:00 UTCRefreshed several times a day

October normal 20°Guide
Summit now · 8,849 mMount Everest

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Summit forecast at three heightsSummit
Station-adjusted climate normals · forecasts refreshed daily
4.92Mplaces scored every month247,272 month guides
90ksummits with their own climateforecast at three heights
351kmonuments and heritage sites4,008 on the World Heritage List
580kcredited open-licence photoslinked, never copied
197countries · 3549 regionsmore editions to follow
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Everything in the atlas

All features at a glance
Climate atlas

Where the weather is best in October

Countries shaded by the average month score of their thirty best-known places; the table ranks the places behind the colours.

Month score
Where to go

The best of every month

All of October's rankings
Coquimbo, Chile
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01100 /100

Coquimbo

Coquimbo Region, Chile
19°high in Oct12°low14°sea
Coquimbo
Khamis Mushait, Saudi Arabia
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02100 /100

Khamis Mushait

'Asir Region, Saudi Arabia
25°high in Oct13°low0wet days
Khamis Mushait
Hajjah, Yemen
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03100 /100

Hajjah

Ḩajjah, Yemen
23°high in Oct15°low0wet days
Hajjah
Hotan, China
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04100 /100

Hotan

Xinjiang, China
19°high in Oct6°low0wet days
Hotan
Sanaa, Yemen
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0599 /100

Sanaa

Amanat Alasimah, Yemen
23°high in Oct10°low0wet days
Sanaa

Where to go in October: the full ranking

Journeys

Routes timed by the weather

Every stop in a journey scores highest for that kind of trip in the same month.

All twelve months
Mumbai
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January4 stops

Winter sun

Where January still means warm afternoons and a swimmable sea.

MumbaiMukallaSuratFreetown
Winter sun
Antofagasta
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April4 stops

Spring city breaks

Mild, bright and before the summer crowds.

AntofagastaPraiaNouadhibouHami
Spring city breaks
Brasília
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July4 stops

Cool mountain summers

Towns above 600 m where July stays fresh.

BrasíliaArequipaMoqueguaLusaka
Cool mountain summers
Coquimbo
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October4 stops

Golden autumn

October's best-scoring cities: warm days and settled weather.

CoquimboKhamis MushaitHajjahHotan
Golden autumn
Alexandria
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August4 stops

High-summer beaches

Hot days and the warmest seas of the year.

AlexandriaOranCasablancaTel Aviv
High-summer beaches
Nature & heritage

Summits and monuments, with their weather

Every mountain gets its own summit climate and a forecast at three heights; every monument the weather of the town around it.

Mount Everest
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Mount Everest8,849 m · Nepal
Highest summitsAll mountains
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K2Baltoro Muztagh8,611 mJuly -16° at the topK2
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KanchenjungaHimalayas8,586 mJuly 1° at the topKanchenjunga
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MakaluMahalangur Himal8,485 mJuly -7° at the topMakalu
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Cho OyuMahalangur Himal8,188 mJuly -6° at the topCho Oyu
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DhaulagiriDhaulagiri Himal8,167 mJuly -3° at the topDhaulagiri
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ManasluMansiri Himal8,163 mJuly -4° at the topManaslu
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Nanga ParbatHimalayas8,126 mJuly -3° at the topNanga Parbat
Vatican City
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Vatican CityVatican City · Vatican City
World HeritageAll monuments
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BrasíliaPlano Piloto, Brazil1960planned national capitalBrasília
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RabatRabat, Morocco1146cityRabat
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Taj MahalAgra, IndiamausoleumTaj Mahal
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VallettaValletta, Malta1566local council of MaltaValletta
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QuitoQuito, Ecuador1534cityQuito
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Statue of LibertyNew York City, United States1886observation towerStatue of Liberty
Questions

Good to know

How Places of Earth works, where the numbers come from and how to use them.

How is the month score calculated?

Each month gets a score out of 100 that weighs temperature comfort (42%), the chance of rain (33%) and cloud cover (25%). Beach scores add sea temperature. The formula is published in full in our methodology, and the same numbers appear on every page.

How often are forecasts updated?

Forecasts are refreshed several times a day from a global weather model and cached briefly. Climate normals describe a typical month; forecasts describe the next ten days.

Which countries are covered?

United States, Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czechia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Micronesia, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Korea, North Macedonia, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Palestine, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Republic of the Congo, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, São Tomé and Príncipe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, South Sudan, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican City, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe. More countries and language editions will follow, each written natively rather than machine translated.