Weather in Adelaide in November

Prime time. If you get to pick your dates, November is the one. Highs average 25.8 °C, lows 12.9 °C, and rain falls on 5 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

November ranks 3 of 12 in Adelaide. Only March scores clearly higher, and the difference is small enough to be settled by price rather than weather.

Rain falls on only 5 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. Nothing specialised needed — this is the month you pack for the trip rather than for the weather.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: 8 days top 30 °C — hot spells arrive, but they break. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest November day reached 41.2 °C and the coldest night fell to 6 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 25 mm — roughly 114% of the month's rain in one day.

This is the volatile part. November rainfall has ranged from 0 mm to 60 mm across the twenty years measured — a 60 mm spread around an average of 22 mm. The average is real but almost no individual November looks like it, so treat the figure as the middle of a wide range rather than a forecast.

Wind is light at 10.3 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 57%.

How November sits in the year

The month is on the way up: 3.7 °C warmer than October, and December adds another 2.1 °C. Late in the month feels noticeably different from the start of it, which is worth knowing if the trip is short.

Daylight in November

November is at or near the longest days of Adelaide's year: 13.9 hours of daylight, gaining 0.8 hours across the month. Evenings are the real gain — dinner outdoors still happens in full light.

An inland climate

Despite being inland, the year stays fairly even: 23.5 °C between the year's warmest afternoons and coldest nights.

How busy it gets

Peak season. Expect the highest prices of the year and to be booking well ahead. If the dates are flexible, September is the trade worth considering — 13 points weaker on weather, and materially quieter.

Crowd levels are estimated from climate desirability and school-holiday calendars, not from visitor numbers.

November in Adelaide versus nearby

If Adelaide is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Gawler is close enough to be a coin toss — 2.5 °C warmer, 1 day less rain. Whyalla is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day less rain.

So: November is effectively as good as it gets here — 1 points behind March, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.

Every month in Adelaide

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