Weather in Chongqing in November

Prime time. If you get to pick your dates, November is the one. Highs average 18.6 °C, lows 9.9 °C, and rain falls on 9 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

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

Rain on 9 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 30.1 °C and the coldest night fell to 1.1 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 27 mm — roughly 60% 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 90 mm against 22 mm in the driest. In a month this wet, even a tame spread is a lot of rain in absolute terms — the 45 mm average is a reasonable planning figure, not a promise.

Wind is light at 5 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 80%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How November sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 5.2 °C cooler than October, with December dropping another 5.7 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip. Rain has already shifted: 8 days fewer than October had.

Daylight in November

November sits at the dark end of Chongqing's year — 10.7 hours of daylight against 14 at midsummer, losing 0.6 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 — 30.5 °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 Chongqing versus nearby

If Chongqing is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Chengdu is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 2 days less rain. Xi’an is close enough to be a coin toss — 3.6 °C cooler, 4 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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