Weather in Albuquerque in November

Prime time. If you get to pick your dates, November is the one. Highs average 16.4 °C, lows 1.6 °C, and rain falls on 3 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

November ranks 5 of 12 in Albuquerque: past the worst of the year but short of April, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain falls on only 3 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. Pack for 16.4 °C days and 1.6 °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: 11 nights fall below freezing. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest November day reached 25.9 °C and the coldest night fell to -7.2 °C.

This is the volatile part. November rainfall has ranged from 1 mm to 68 mm across the twenty years measured — a 67 mm spread around an average of 15 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 7.3 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 48%.

How November sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 7.2 °C cooler than October, with December dropping another 6.1 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip.

Daylight in November

November sits at the dark end of Albuquerque's year — 10.4 hours of daylight against 14.5 at midsummer, losing 0.8 hours across the month. Sightseeing days are genuinely shorter, and an itinerary built for summer will not fit.

An inland climate

With no coast nearby, the year swings a fair way — 37.3 °C between the warmest afternoons and the coldest nights, wider than any coastal city at this latitude would manage. At 1511 m, altitude is doing as much work here as latitude: thinner air means fierce sun by day and heat that leaves the moment it sets. Within November itself the daily swing is 14.8 °C, so mornings and afternoons need different clothes.

How busy it gets

Busy. Popular without being frantic; book the things you care about, improvise the rest.

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

November in Albuquerque versus nearby

If Albuquerque is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. El Paso is a better bet in November — 3.5 °C warmer, 1 day less rain. Amarillo is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, the same number of rain days.

So: November works, with April the better month by 11 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

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