Weather in Dubrovnik in November

Shoulder season. November sits in between. You will get good days and you will lose some. Highs average 16.9 °C, lows 14.1 °C, and rain falls on 13 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

November ranks 8 of 12 in Dubrovnik: past the worst of the year but short of June, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

This is wet-season rain: 13 wet days and 6 genuinely heavy ones, which in this climate means concentrated downpours rather than all-day grey. The pattern is usually a clear morning and a loud afternoon, so front-load the day and stop fighting the 3pm hour. Pack for 16.9 °C days and 14.1 °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: the day barely swings — 2.7 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest November day reached 24.3 °C and the coldest night fell to 4.8 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 74 mm — roughly 46% of the month's rain in one day.

November is moderately variable: 16 mm in the driest year against 338 mm in the wettest, around an average of 161 mm. Roughly two Novembers in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 14.7 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 74%.

How November sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 3.8 °C cooler than October, with December dropping another 3.9 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip.

Daylight in November

9.8 hours of daylight, losing 1.1 hours across the month. That is between Dubrovnik's extremes of 15.3 and 9.1 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 18 °C in November — swimmable, but it takes a moment to commit. The sea peaks at 26 °C in August and bottoms out at 14 °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

Quiet. Few other visitors, cheaper rooms, and a real chance some seasonal operators are shut.

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

November in Dubrovnik versus nearby

If Dubrovnik is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Split is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, the same number of rain days. Bari is a better bet in November — within a degree on temperature, 3 days less rain.

So: November is a compromise. June is 25 points better and is what Dubrovnik is actually like at its best — worth moving the trip for if that is possible, and worth adjusting expectations for if it is not.

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