Weather in Darwin in November

A hard month. November is a hard month in Darwin, and worth planning around. You should expect rain on 24 days of the month, which is more days wet than dry.

November ranks 12 of 12 — near the bottom of Darwin's year. July is the month that works, and the swing between the two is 46 points, which is a different holiday rather than a slightly better one.

Rain on 24 of the month's 30 days, 4 of them heavy. At that frequency a wet-weather backup is not a contingency, it is the itinerary — book the indoor things first and treat the clear days as the bonus. Pack for 32.3 °C days and 28.2 °C nights; the spread matters more here than any single number.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: 28 days top 30 °C, making the heat continuous rather than occasional; the day barely swings — 4 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest November day reached 36 °C and the coldest night fell to 22.4 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 34 mm — roughly 24% 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 252 mm against 81 mm in the driest. In a month this wet, even a tame spread is a lot of rain in absolute terms — the 140 mm average is a reasonable planning figure, not a promise.

Wind is light at 9.9 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 69%.

How November sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 33.1 °C in October, 32.3 here, 31 in December. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much. Rain is the thing that moves: December brings 5 days more of it, so the earlier half of a flexible trip is the safer half.

Daylight in November

Darwin sits close enough to the equator that daylight barely moves all year — 12.7 hours in November, against a range of just 1.4 hours across the whole calendar. Sunrise and sunset land at roughly the same time whenever you come.

An inland climate

Despite being inland, the year stays fairly even: 11.7 °C between the year's warmest afternoons and coldest nights.

How busy it gets

Off season. The genuine off season: cheapest by a distance, with the caveat that some tours and restaurants close entirely.

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

November in Darwin versus nearby

If Darwin is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Broome is the weaker option in November — 7.2 °C warmer, 20 days less rain. Labuan Bajo is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, the same number of rain days.

So: November is a compromise. July is 46 points better and is what Darwin is actually like at its best — worth moving the trip for if that is possible, and worth adjusting expectations for if it is not.

Every month in Darwin

See all twelve months in Darwin, or where else to go in November.