Weather in Eugene in November

A hard month. November is a hard month in Eugene, and worth planning around. You should expect rain on 18 days of the month, which is more days wet than dry.

November ranks 9 of 12 in Eugene: past the worst of the year but short of July, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

This is wet-season rain: 18 wet days and 7 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. Layers, and a genuinely waterproof outer — at 12.6 °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: 3 nights fall below freezing. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest November day reached 25.1 °C and the coldest night fell to -7.2 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 62 mm — roughly 32% 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 444 mm against 46 mm in the driest. In a month this wet, even a tame spread is a lot of rain in absolute terms — the 196 mm average is a reasonable planning figure, not a promise.

Wind is light at 0.5 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 90%, which at 12.6 °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: 6.3 °C cooler than October, with December dropping another 3.4 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip. Rain has already shifted: 6 days more than October had.

Daylight in November

9.7 hours of daylight, losing 1.1 hours across the month. That is between Eugene's extremes of 15.5 and 8.9 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

An inland climate

With no coast nearby, the year swings a fair way — 25.1 °C between the warmest afternoons and the coldest nights, wider than any coastal city at this latitude would manage.

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 Eugene versus nearby

If Eugene is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Portland is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day more rain. Tri-Cities is a better bet in November — within a degree on temperature, 10 days less rain.

So: November is a compromise. July is 56 points better and is what Eugene 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 Eugene

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