Weather in Cần Thơ in November

A hard month. November is a hard month in Cần Thơ, and worth planning around. The heat itself is manageable at 30.1 °C, but 87% humidity is what you will actually feel.

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

Rain on 18 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 87% nothing dries, including you.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: 17 days top 30 °C — hot spells arrive, but they break. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest November day reached 33.5 °C and the coldest night fell to 18.5 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 46 mm — roughly 38% of the month's rain in one day.

November is statistically steady but not small: the year-to-year variation is modest in relative terms, yet the wettest November on record still delivered 218 mm against 34 mm in the driest. In a month this wet, even a tame spread is a lot of rain in absolute terms — the 120 mm average is a reasonable planning figure, not a promise.

Wind is light at 7.5 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity at 87% is the real story though — it is the number that decides how the day feels, not the 30.1 °C.

How November sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 29.9 °C in October, 30.1 here, 30.3 in December. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much. Rain is the thing that moves: December brings 10 days less of it, so pushing the dates later buys drier weather.

Daylight in November

Cần Thơ sits close enough to the equator that daylight barely moves all year — 11.7 hours in November, against a range of just 1.2 hours across the whole calendar. Sunrise and sunset land at roughly the same time whenever you come.

An inland climate

Despite being inland, the year stays fairly even: 15.2 °C between the year's warmest afternoons and coldest nights.

How busy it gets

Quiet. Few other visitors, cheaper rooms, and a real chance some seasonal operators are shut.

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

November in Cần Thơ versus nearby

If Cần Thơ is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Ho Chi Minh City is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 4 days less rain. Vũng Tàu is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day less rain.

So: November is a compromise. January is 28 points better and is what Cần Thơ 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 Cần Thơ

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