Weather in Dublin in November

A hard month. November is a hard month in Dublin, and worth planning around. Highs sit at 10.4 °C and the day is short; this is an indoors-with-excursions month, not an outdoors-all-day one.

November ranks 10 of 12 — near the bottom of Dublin's year. July is the month that works, and the swing between the two is 34 points, which is a different holiday rather than a slightly better one.

Rain on 18 days, 3 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Layers, and a genuinely waterproof outer — at 10.4 °C the difference between a good day and a miserable one is entirely down to what you are wearing.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: the day barely swings — 3.6 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest November day reached 15.8 °C and the coldest night fell to 0 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 35 mm — roughly 33% of the month's rain in one day.

November is moderately variable: 40 mm in the driest year against 204 mm in the wettest, around an average of 105 mm. Roughly two Novembers in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind sits around 18.9 km/h — a steady breeze rather than a nuisance, and welcome on the warmer days, and humidity runs at 90%, which at 10.4 °C means damp rather than muggy — the kind of cold that gets into a coat and stays there.

How November sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 3.1 °C cooler than October, with December dropping another 2 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip.

Daylight in November

8.7 hours of daylight, losing 1.7 hours across the month. That is between Dublin's extremes of 17 and 7.6 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

An inland climate

Despite being inland, the year stays fairly even: 13.9 °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 Dublin versus nearby

If Dublin is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Galway is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day more rain. Cork 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 29 points better and is what Dublin 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 Dublin

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