What to pack for Berlin in October

Wear one, dry one. Cotton stays wet all week here.

The layer you'll wear more than any other.

Check ankles and, if there's a dog, paws and ears every night.

Eleven rain days mean wet hands before you touch your face.

This country runs on Type C or F. Get one with USB-C so you're not fighting over the single outlet.

Ten hours of daylight means your phone dies before the day does.

Set it up before you land. Signal drops for long stretches outside cities.

Dark by 6:10pm. Every campsite chore after that is a two-hands job.

Berlin's trains fit a 40-liter bag in the overhead rack without a second glance.

Museums and markets fill a day faster than you can carry it all.

Fits the overhead on every airline that matters. Skip the checked-bag line entirely.

For the passport, the chargers, and the one dry pair of socks.

Tap water is safe, so a bottle saves the cost and waste of buying drinks all month.

One brick charges the laptop, phone, and camera.

Hotel and cafe wifi is shared with everyone else in the building. A VPN keeps your banking and email to yourself.

International travel and dense urban crowds make a hidden wallet worth the space.

Checked bags move through three countries before they reach you.

Damp October air makes wrinkled clothes harder to fix than organized packing prevents.

Eighty-two percent humidity and eleven rainy days mean clothes stay damp between washes.

Twenty kilometers per hour wind on the street makes quiet focus impossible without them.

Public transit in a city of three million needs a barrier between your hands and your eyes.

One outlet in a budget hotel charges three devices if you have the right cables.

A few phrases go a long way. Ten minutes a day before you leave is plenty.

Border crossings between EU zones require your passport within arm's reach.

Your bag passes through five sets of hands before you see it again.

A hanging bag drains water while your other things stay dry.

Ten and a half hours of daylight means you'll sleep on trains crossing into the next time zone.