Weather in Chengdu in November

Prime time. If you get to pick your dates, November is the one. Highs average 17.7 °C, lows 7.8 °C, and rain falls on 7 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

November ranks 2 of 12 in Chengdu. Only March scores clearly higher, and the difference is small enough to be settled by price rather than weather.

Rain on 7 days, 0 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Pack for 17.7 °C days and 7.8 °C nights; the spread matters more here than any single number.

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 25.9 °C and the coldest night fell to -2 °C.

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 45 mm against 8 mm in the driest. In a month this wet, even a tame spread is a lot of rain in absolute terms — the 23 mm average is a reasonable planning figure, not a promise.

Wind is light at 5.6 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: 5 °C cooler than October, with December dropping another 5.5 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip. Rain has already shifted: 9 days fewer than October had.

Daylight in November

November sits at the dark end of Chengdu's year — 10.6 hours of daylight against 14.1 at midsummer, losing 0.7 hours across the month. Sightseeing days are genuinely shorter, and an itinerary built for summer will not fit.

An inland climate

With no coast nearby, the year swings a fair way — 31.9 °C between the warmest afternoons and the coldest nights, wider than any coastal city at this latitude would manage.

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 Chengdu versus nearby

If Chengdu is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Chongqing is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 2 days more rain. Xi’an is close enough to be a coin toss — 2.7 °C cooler, 2 days less rain.

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

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