Weather in Chaniá in November

Prime time. November is about as good as Chaniá gets. Highs average 20.1 °C, lows 16.4 °C, and rain falls on 12 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

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

Rain on 12 days, 2 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; the day barely swings — 3.7 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest November day reached 27.3 °C and the coldest night fell to 8.5 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 54 mm — roughly 64% 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 166 mm against 38 mm in the driest. In a month this wet, even a tame spread is a lot of rain in absolute terms — the 84 mm average is a reasonable planning figure, not a promise.

Wind is light at 15.8 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 76%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How November sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 3.9 °C cooler than October, with December dropping another 3.7 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip.

Daylight in November

November sits at the dark end of Chaniá's year — 10.3 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 21.1 °C in November — comfortable for a proper swim. The sea peaks at 25.9 °C in August and bottoms out at 15.7 °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 Chaniá versus nearby

If Chaniá is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Firá is close enough to be a coin toss — 2.7 °C cooler, 3 days less rain. Kalamata is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day less rain.

So: November works, with June the better month by 18 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

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