Weather in Chiang Mai in November

Prime time. November is about as good as Chiang Mai gets. The heat itself is manageable at 28.7 °C, but 82% humidity is what you will actually feel.

November ranks 3 of 12 in Chiang Mai. Only December scores clearly higher, and the difference is small enough to be settled by price rather than weather.

Rain falls on only 6 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. Natural fibres and a second shirt for the day. At 82% nothing dries, including you.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: 7 days top 30 °C — hot spells arrive, but they break. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest November day reached 34.8 °C and the coldest night fell to 10.6 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 50 mm — roughly 135% of the month's rain in one day.

This is the volatile part. November rainfall has ranged from 0 mm to 175 mm across the twenty years measured — a 175 mm spread around an average of 37 mm. The average is real but almost no individual November looks like it, so treat the figure as the middle of a wide range rather than a forecast.

Wind is light at 0.9 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 82%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How November sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 29.6 °C in October, 28.7 here, 27.6 in December. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much. Rain has already shifted: 11 days fewer than October had.

Daylight in November

November sits at the dark end of Chiang Mai's year — 11.3 hours of daylight against 13.3 at midsummer, losing 0.4 hours across the month. Sightseeing days are genuinely shorter, and an itinerary built for summer will not fit.

An inland climate

Despite being inland, the year stays fairly even: 20.8 °C between the year's warmest afternoons and coldest nights.

How busy it gets

Busy. Popular without being frantic; book the things you care about, improvise the rest.

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

November in Chiang Mai versus nearby

If Chiang Mai is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Luang Prabang is close enough to be a coin toss — 2.1 °C warmer, 1 day less rain. Udon Thani is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 3 days less rain.

So: November works, with December the better month by 14 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

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