Paraguay travel guide

May–September for bearable temperatures; avoid the January–February heat unless Carnaval is the point. Paraguay has a subtropical climate with hot, wet summers and mild, drier winters. From May to September afternoons sit in the low to mid twenties and nights can drop close to freezing on the odd polar-front day, which is the comfortable window for the missions, the Chaco and long bus days. October to March brings 30–40 °C heat, high humidity, thunderstorms and dengue season, though Encarnación's Carnaval and the river beaches are summer affairs. The Chaco is hotter and drier than the east in every month.

The places that earn their nights, most important first, with how long each deserves. Nobody needs all of them on one trip.

Long-distance buses are the backbone: comfortable coaches link Asunción with Encarnación, Ciudad del Este, Concepción and Filadelfia on paved routes. Domestic flights are few and rarely useful. Inside the Chaco and around the missions a hired car or driver converts long waits into useful days, while river passages north of Concepción depend on cargo-passenger boats whose schedules change.

A mid-range trip usually needs about €40–€90 per person per day, before long-haul flights. Paraguay is among the cheapest countries in South America for food, buses and mid-range rooms. The costs that rise quickly are Chaco logistics, where a driver and 4x4 are the only practical option, and any river passage north, where boats are infrequent and cabins limited.

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