3★+ hotels in Fort McMurray from €60/night (range €60–160, 13 hotels sampled, ~3 weeks out).
In Oct, Fort McMurray typically sees ~9°C daytime highs and 13 rainy days.
Fort McMurray is the largest community in the Athabasca Oil Sands in Alberta. It lost its city status in 1995 when it merged with a large rural area to form the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo and its fortunes have risen and fallen in lockstep with the price of Alberta crude oil; its structures were decimated by a May 2016 wildfire.
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