Weather in Airlie Beach in November

A good month. November is a solid month to be in Airlie Beach. Highs average 29.3 °C, lows 23.2 °C, and rain falls on 8 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

November ranks 8 of 12 in Airlie Beach: past the worst of the year but short of August, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain on 8 days, 1 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Pack for 29.3 °C days and 23.2 °C nights; the spread matters more here than any single number.

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 38.2 °C and the coldest night fell to 19.5 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 37 mm — roughly 74% of the month's rain in one day.

This is the volatile part. November rainfall has ranged from 2 mm to 332 mm across the twenty years measured — a 330 mm spread around an average of 50 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 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 70%.

How November sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 28.1 °C in October, 29.3 here, 30.4 in December. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in November

November is at or near the longest days of Airlie Beach's year: 13.1 hours of daylight, gaining 0.4 hours across the month. Evenings are the real gain — dinner outdoors still happens in full light.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 26.5 °C in November — warm enough to stay in as long as you like. The sea peaks at 28.6 °C in February and bottoms out at 23.1 °C — water lags the air by a month or two, which is why the best swimming often comes after the best weather.

How busy it gets

Shoulder. The value months — prices ease off and you get the place closer to itself.

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

November in Airlie Beach versus nearby

If Airlie Beach is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Mackay is close enough to be a coin toss — 2.6 °C cooler, 1 day more rain. Townsville is the weaker option in November — 3.3 °C warmer, 1 day less rain.

So: November is a compromise. August is 20 points better and is what Airlie Beach is actually like at its best — worth moving the trip for if that is possible, and worth adjusting expectations for if it is not.

Every month in Airlie Beach

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