Weather in Bergen in November

The month to avoid. Of the twelve, November is the one to avoid. Highs sit at 5.5 °C and the day is short; this is an indoors-with-excursions month, not an outdoors-all-day one.

November ranks 8 of 12 in Bergen: past the worst of the year but short of July, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain on 21 of the month's 30 days, 11 of them heavy. At that frequency a wet-weather backup is not a contingency, it is the itinerary — book the indoor things first and treat the clear days as the bonus. Layers, and a genuinely waterproof outer — at 5.5 °C the difference between a good day and a miserable one is entirely down to what you are wearing.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: 8 nights fall below freezing; the day barely swings — 3.5 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest November day reached 13.4 °C and the coldest night fell to -14.8 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 119 mm — roughly 41% of the month's rain in one day.

November is moderately variable: 48 mm in the driest year against 505 mm in the wettest, around an average of 293 mm. Roughly two Novembers in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 5.6 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 93%, which at 5.5 °C means damp rather than muggy — the kind of cold that gets into a coat and stays there.

How November sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 4.6 °C cooler than October, with December dropping another 2.7 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip.

Daylight in November

7.5 hours of daylight, losing 2.4 hours across the month. That is between Bergen's extremes of 19 and 5.8 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

An inland climate

Despite being inland, the year stays fairly even: 21.8 °C between the year's warmest afternoons and coldest nights.

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 Bergen versus nearby

If Bergen is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Stavanger is close enough to be a coin toss — 2 °C warmer, the same number of rain days. Kristiansand is close enough to be a coin toss — 2.4 °C warmer, 2 days less rain.

So: November is a compromise. July is 43 points better and is what Bergen 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 Bergen

See all twelve months in Bergen, or where else to go in November.