Weather in Fortaleza in November

Prime time. November is about as good as Fortaleza gets. Highs average 30.3 °C, lows 26.1 °C, and rain falls on 2 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

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

Rain falls on only 2 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. Pack for 30.3 °C days and 26.1 °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: 24 days top 30 °C, making the heat continuous rather than occasional; the day barely swings — 4.2 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest November day reached 31.5 °C and the coldest night fell to 24.9 °C.

November is dependably dry, and that reliability is the point: across the twenty years measured, the wettest November on record still only managed 23 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 10 mm. Rain simply is not the variable that decides this trip — heat, crowds and cost are.

Wind sits around 22.1 km/h — a steady breeze rather than a nuisance, and welcome on the warmer days, and humidity is unremarkable at 72%.

How November sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 30.3 °C in October, 30.3 here, 30.2 in December. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in November

Fortaleza sits close enough to the equator that daylight barely moves all year — 12.3 hours in November, against a range of just 0.4 hours across the whole calendar. Sunrise and sunset land at roughly the same time whenever you come.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 27.2 °C in November — warm enough that the water offers no relief from the heat. The sea peaks at 28.8 °C in April and bottoms out at 26.6 °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 Fortaleza versus nearby

If Fortaleza is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Recife is the weaker option in November — within a degree on temperature, 4 days more rain. Maceió is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 4 days more rain.

So: November is effectively as good as it gets here — 4 points behind August, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.

Every month in Fortaleza

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