Half term, Halloween, the first winter birds arriving and autumn colour around the harbour.
October balances the last of the season with the first of the winter wildlife.
See Poole in autumn.
Half term and Halloween events run through the month, autumn colour comes to the parks and heath, and the first overwintering waders arrive on the harbour mudflats. Some seasonal services wind down.
Poole's crowds follow the school calendar and the weather: July and August are the peak, with half terms and bank holidays busy in miniature. Outside those, the beaches and the Quay are noticeably calmer.
Sandbanks hotels, harbourside flats a street back from the Quay and the quieter beds out at Hamworthy and Broadstone, with the areas each one suits.