Weather in Baton Rouge in November

Prime time. If you get to pick your dates, November is the one. Highs average 21.9 °C, lows 9.1 °C, and rain falls on 9 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

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

Rain on 9 days, 3 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Nothing specialised needed — this is the month you pack for the trip rather than for the weather.

What the averages hide

The averages here are honest — no hidden extremes worth planning around. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest November day reached 31.8 °C and the coldest night fell to -6 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 68 mm — roughly 73% of the month's rain in one day.

November is moderately variable: 37 mm in the driest year against 207 mm in the wettest, around an average of 93 mm. Roughly two Novembers in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 5.9 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 79%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How November sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 5.5 °C cooler than October, with December dropping another 4.5 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip.

Daylight in November

November sits at the dark end of Baton Rouge's year — 10.6 hours of daylight against 14.1 at midsummer, losing 0.7 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 — 28.5 °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 Baton Rouge versus nearby

If Baton Rouge is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. New Orleans is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day less rain. Jackson is close enough to be a coin toss — 2.4 °C cooler, 1 day less rain.

So: November is the answer for Baton Rouge. If it is booked out or priced out, March is the next best thing at 1 points behind, and August is the month to keep off the shortlist.

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