Hot holiday destinations in October please....

Florida is nice in October, as are the islands off the USA southeast coast.

Cape Verde looks really nice georgiejg. We have had a terrible 12 months with one thing and another, it ticks all the boxes of what we are after, lots of sunshine and relaxation.

Portugal, I would say that as I live there part of the year. For the south Algarve and warmest area you can fly into Faro but if you want sea and beach plus interesting places look at Cascais area. Good beaches. Interesting town and 30 minute cheap train ride into Lisbon one of the most popular destinations in Europe. If it is not as warm as you expected there is plenty to do.

Cape Verde but it is 5 1/2 hrs we found the flight went quite quickly.

Morocco

Morocco

We are off to Mallorca for the first week in October. Husband now retired from teaching so it's the first year ever we can go out of season. Hoping for lovely sunny days when it's not too hot!

Agree, great thing about city breaks is there's plenty to do if the weather's poor.

We have been going to Rome for half term at the beginning of October for the last twenty years.
Now that I'm retired, we are off in 3 weeks time, as the weather is much better in September. It can rain a lot in October.

As for me, I think october is a great time to visit Rome, Italy. Last fall I found cheap first class tickets at www.iflyfirstclass.com/city/to-rome-fco to Rome and my husband and I spent there two weeks. That was amazing trip.

A good few suggestions here, thank you once again, will have a look to see what we can find that is suitable. It's a belated holiday for my Husband's 60th Birthday. Need to escape the rain.

Oh and another point: at the Autumn Equinox, on 21 September, everywhere in the world has the same amount of daylight/dark (12/12 hours). After that, the southerly latitudes (in the northern hemisphere) have the edge, and there is more daylight the closer you get to the Equator, where it's always 12/12. So in October, the Canaries will have more daylight than, say, the Mediterranean resorts.

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Croatia, jollyg .... I've been in there twice in October, and had lots of sunshine, but not toooo hot. We had the odd rainy day too, and thunderstorms. One year they had had much worse weather a couple of weeks before, in late September, with flash floods, so the weather can be a bit variable. The sea is still lovely and warm then.

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DD and I are off to Palma Nova in Majorca thr first week in October we have been a few times this time of the year and the weather is always good no school holidays at that time so all will be nice and quiet and good deals to be had with regard to upgrades at the hotels.

Humbertbear, I never though of things like that.

Lots is suggestions, thank you, 4 ish hours is our maximum flight time as it's for a week only this time.

One thing not mentioned so far is that although the Canaries will be warm , it gets dark early. We went in November and although you could still sit on your balcony, it was dark at 5.30.

ps after the 13th Oct. it will be cheaper. (End of a religious festival week).

What about Israel? We went once in October and it was lovely. Up to 30°. There's so much history there, as well as beach life.
But might be expensive.

We've been to Sicily and Cyprus in October and both were like full summer.

We normally holiday in October and have always found good weather. We've been to various places in Italy, Furterventura (sp), Crete, Cyprus. We normally go around the first two weeks of October because that encompasses both our birthdays.

we go as late as November or December to the canaries and it is still lovely . Avoid January and February there .

We have found all the Canary Islands to be lovely at that time of year.

Malta and Cyprus are also lovely in October and a bit quieter.