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Typical October weather

Phoenix

Arizona · October

Shade stops mattering and the trailheads refill by breakfast.

89° days
66° nights

maybe one rainy day · 11½ hours of daylight

What to pack

What October feels like

Everything reopens — hiking clubs, patio dining, the festivals that could not survive summer — though the first half still runs hot enough that early starts matter. By Halloween the Valley has its second spring and the trail lots are full again by mid-morning.

Real rain shows up maybe one day all month; the rest stay dry. The air runs dry — whatever the thermometer says, it wears easy. about 17 afternoons top 90°.

The numbers

Typical high89°
Typical low66°
Days with real rain1
Total rain0.6 in
Humiditydry air
Sunrise / sunset (mid-month)6:33 am / 5:54 pm

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