Weather in Bakersfield in November

Prime time. If you get to pick your dates, November is the one. Highs average 23.8 °C, lows 10.6 °C, and rain falls on 3 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

November is the highest-scoring month of the twelve. The nearest rival is April, and the month at the other end of the year is August.

Rain falls on only 3 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: 5 days top 30 °C — hot spells arrive, but they break. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest November day reached 36.1 °C and the coldest night fell to -0.7 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 28 mm — roughly 156% of the month's rain in one day.

November is moderately variable: 2 mm in the driest year against 48 mm in the wettest, around an average of 18 mm. Roughly two Novembers in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 6 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 50%.

How November sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 6.3 °C cooler than October, with December dropping another 5.2 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip.

Daylight in November

November sits at the dark end of Bakersfield's year — 10.3 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 — 32.5 °C between the warmest afternoons and the coldest nights, wider than any coastal city at this latitude would manage.

How busy it gets

Peak season. Expect the highest prices of the year and to be booking well ahead.

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

November in Bakersfield versus nearby

If Bakersfield is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Los Angeles is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, the same number of rain days. Fresno is close enough to be a coin toss — 2.8 °C cooler, 2 days more rain.

So: November is the answer for Bakersfield. If it is booked out or priced out, April is the next best thing at 3 points behind, and August is the month to keep off the shortlist.

Every month in Bakersfield

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