Weather in Barcelona in November

Prime time. November is about as good as Barcelona gets. Highs average 18.4 °C, lows 9.8 °C, and rain falls on 6 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

November ranks 5 of 12 in Barcelona: 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 6 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: it never really gets hot: not one day in an average November reaches 30 °C. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest November day reached 27.2 °C and the coldest night fell to 1.4 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 99 mm — roughly 183% of the month's rain in one day.

This is the volatile part. November rainfall has ranged from 4 mm to 195 mm across the twenty years measured — a 191 mm spread around an average of 54 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 8.5 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 74%.

How November sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 5.5 °C cooler than October, with December dropping another 3.4 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip.

Daylight in November

9.9 hours of daylight, losing 1 hours across the month. That is between Barcelona's extremes of 15.1 and 9.2 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 18 °C in November — swimmable, but it takes a moment to commit. The sea peaks at 25.5 °C in August and bottoms out at 13.2 °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

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 Barcelona versus nearby

If Barcelona is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Palma is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 5 days more rain. Toulouse is the weaker option in November — 4 °C cooler, 7 days more rain.

So: November is effectively as good as it gets here — 4 points behind April, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.

Every month in Barcelona

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