Ephesus (Efes) is close to the town of Selcuk about an hour drive south of Izmir. Kusadasi is the nearest larger town, about 20km from Ephesus. Ephesus was constructed on a river bend, that was eventually dredged into a full harbor near the mount of the Cayster River, on the western coast of Asia Minor (modern Turkey).
Climate in Mexico in October. This is the last month of the rainy season for most regions of Mexico, with the drier winter approaching. Autumn in Mexico, however, does not mean cooler weather on the coast, and in October the heat, humidity, rain and tropical storms that characterize summer are still very present.
Mexico is a vast country and has different types of climate, however, it's generally arid on the west coast and the inland highlands of the centre-north, it becomes moderately rainy in the mountain ranges and the southern plateaus, while it's very rainy in some tropical southern areas. Summer is the rainiest season almost everywhere.