Weather in Barranquilla in November

A hard month. November asks something of you. Go in knowing what. You should expect rain on 19 days of the month, which is more days wet than dry.

November ranks 6 of 12 in Barranquilla: past the worst of the year but short of January, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain on 19 days, 4 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Natural fibres and a second shirt for the day. At 84% nothing dries, including you.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: 13 days top 30 °C — hot spells arrive, but they break; the day barely swings — 3.3 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest November day reached 32.5 °C and the coldest night fell to 24.2 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 55 mm — roughly 38% of the month's rain in one day.

November is moderately variable: 1 mm in the driest year against 341 mm in the wettest, around an average of 143 mm. Roughly two Novembers in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 13.1 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 84%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How November sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 29.9 °C in October, 29.8 here, 30.1 in December. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much. Rain is the thing that moves: December brings 13 days less of it, so pushing the dates later buys drier weather.

Daylight in November

Barranquilla sits close enough to the equator that daylight barely moves all year — 11.6 hours in November, against a range of just 1.3 hours across the whole calendar. Sunrise and sunset land at roughly the same time whenever you come.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 28.8 °C in November — warm enough that the water offers no relief from the heat. This is the warmest the water gets all year.

How busy it gets

Off season. The genuine off season: cheapest by a distance, with the caveat that some tours and restaurants close entirely.

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

November in Barranquilla versus nearby

If Barranquilla is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Cartagena is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 2 days more rain. Medellín is a better bet in November — 6.2 °C cooler, 7 days more rain.

So: November is a compromise. January is 37 points better and is what Barranquilla 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 Barranquilla

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