Weather in Busan in November

A good month. November works. It is not the peak, but nothing about it fights you. Highs sit at 14.7 °C and the day is short; this is an indoors-with-excursions month, not an outdoors-all-day one.

November ranks 5 of 12 in Busan: past the worst of the year but short of October, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain falls on only 5 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. Layers, and a genuinely waterproof outer — at 14.7 °C the difference between a good day and a miserable one is entirely down to what you are wearing.

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 22.4 °C and the coldest night fell to -1 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 46 mm — roughly 100% of the month's rain in one day.

November is moderately variable: 0 mm in the driest year against 145 mm in the wettest, around an average of 46 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 75%, which at 14.7 °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: 5.9 °C cooler than October, with December dropping another 6.6 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip.

Daylight in November

November sits at the dark end of Busan's year — 10.4 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.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 20.2 °C in November — swimmable, but it takes a moment to commit. The sea peaks at 26.9 °C in August and bottoms out at 13.9 °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

Shoulder. The value months — prices ease off and you get the place closer to itself.

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

November in Busan versus nearby

If Busan is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Daegu is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, the same number of rain days. Gwangju is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day more rain.

So: November works, with October the better month by 17 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

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