Weather in Delhi in November

Prime time. If you get to pick your dates, November is the one. Highs average 28.4 °C, lows 13.4 °C, and rain falls on 1 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

November ranks 4 of 12 in Delhi: past the worst of the year but short of December, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain falls on only 1 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. Pack for 28.4 °C days and 13.4 °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: 8 days top 30 °C — hot spells arrive, but they break; the day swings 15 °C from low to high, which means one bag has to cover both. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest November day reached 37.5 °C and the coldest night fell to 6.4 °C.

November is dependably dry, and that reliability is the point: across the twenty years measured, the wettest November on record still only managed 26 mm, and the driest managed 0 mm. There is no meaningful variability to plan around, which makes this one of the few months anywhere that you can build a fixed outdoor itinerary against without a fallback. The wettest single day in twenty years of Novembers brought 9 mm. Rain simply is not the variable that decides this trip — heat, crowds and cost are.

Wind is light at 5.7 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 43%.

How November sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 4.3 °C cooler than October, with December dropping another 4.6 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip.

Daylight in November

November sits at the dark end of Delhi'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 — 35.8 °C between the warmest afternoons and the coldest nights, wider than any coastal city at this latitude would manage. Within November itself the daily swing is 15 °C, so mornings and afternoons need different clothes.

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 Delhi versus nearby

If Delhi is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Agra is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, the same number of rain days. Rishīkesh is close enough to be a coin toss — 2.2 °C cooler, the same number of rain days.

So: November is effectively as good as it gets here — 6 points behind December, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.

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