Weather in Cartagena in November

Prime time. If you get to pick your dates, November is the one. Highs average 19.9 °C, lows 13.7 °C, and rain falls on 7 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

Cartagena barely has seasons. November scores 87 out of 100 against a best of 95 in May — a gap small enough that the month you choose matters far less here than the week you choose.

Rain on 7 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 27.5 °C and the coldest night fell to 6.3 °C.

November is moderately variable: 6 mm in the driest year against 69 mm in the wettest, around an average of 37 mm. Roughly two Novembers in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 12.3 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 72%.

How November sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 4.9 °C cooler than October, with December dropping another 2.8 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip.

Daylight in November

November sits at the dark end of Cartagena's year — 10.2 hours of daylight against 14.7 at midsummer, losing 0.9 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 18.9 °C in November — swimmable, but it takes a moment to commit. The sea peaks at 25.7 °C in August and bottoms out at 14.7 °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 Cartagena versus nearby

If Cartagena is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Murcia is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day less rain. Valencia is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day less rain.

So: November works, with May the better month by 8 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

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