Weather in Cape Coral in November

Prime time. November is about as good as Cape Coral gets. Highs average 25.4 °C, lows 17.3 °C, and rain falls on 8 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

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

Rain on 8 days, 1 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

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: it never really gets hot: not one day in an average November reaches 30 °C. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest November day reached 30.5 °C and the coldest night fell to 6 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 81 mm — roughly 165% of the month's rain in one day.

November is moderately variable: 5 mm in the driest year against 151 mm in the wettest, around an average of 49 mm. Roughly two Novembers in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 10.9 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 81%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How November sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 3 °C cooler than October, with December dropping another 2 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip. Rain has already shifted: 6 days fewer than October had.

Daylight in November

November sits at the dark end of Cape Coral's year — 10.9 hours of daylight against 13.8 at midsummer, losing 0.6 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 25.2 °C in November — warm enough to stay in as long as you like. The sea peaks at 30 °C in August and bottoms out at 20.5 °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

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 Cape Coral versus nearby

If Cape Coral is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Tampa is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 2 days less rain. Miami is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 2 days more rain.

So: November is effectively as good as it gets here — 3 points behind February, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.

Every month in Cape Coral

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