Weather in Dubai in November

Prime time. If you get to pick your dates, November is the one. Highs average 29.7 °C, lows 24 °C, and rain falls on 1 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

November ranks 5 of 12 in Dubai: past the worst of the year but short of February, 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 29.7 °C days and 24 °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: 14 days top 30 °C — hot spells arrive, but they break; the day barely swings — 5.6 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest November day reached 34.7 °C and the coldest night fell to 19.4 °C.

This is the volatile part. November rainfall has ranged from 0 mm to 42 mm across the twenty years measured — a 42 mm spread around an average of 8 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 10.5 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 57%.

How November sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 4.8 °C cooler than October, with December dropping another 4.3 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip.

Daylight in November

November sits at the dark end of Dubai's year — 10.9 hours of daylight against 13.7 at midsummer, losing 0.5 hours across the month. Sightseeing days are genuinely shorter, and an itinerary built for summer will not fit.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 29 °C in November — warm enough that the water offers no relief from the heat. The sea peaks at 33.7 °C in August and bottoms out at 21.9 °C — water lags the air by a month or two, which is why the best swimming often comes after the best weather.

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 Dubai versus nearby

If Dubai is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Al Ain City is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, the same number of rain days. Rājkot is the weaker option in November — 2.8 °C warmer, the same number of rain days.

So: November works, with February the better month by 12 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

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