Weather in Gasteiz / Vitoria in November

A hard month. November is a hard month in Gasteiz / Vitoria, and worth planning around. Highs sit at 12.5 °C and the day is short; this is an indoors-with-excursions month, not an outdoors-all-day one.

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

Rain on 16 days, 4 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Layers, and a genuinely waterproof outer — at 12.5 °C the difference between a good day and a miserable one is entirely down to what you are wearing.

What the averages hide

The averages here are honest — no hidden extremes worth planning around. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest November day reached 23.6 °C and the coldest night fell to -3.2 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 47 mm — roughly 38% of the month's rain in one day.

November is moderately variable: 32 mm in the driest year against 284 mm in the wettest, around an average of 125 mm. Roughly two Novembers in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 8.3 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 85%, which at 12.5 °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: 6.2 °C cooler than October, with December dropping another 2.8 °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 Gasteiz / Vitoria's extremes of 15.3 and 9.1 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

An inland climate

Despite being inland, the year stays fairly even: 22.7 °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 Gasteiz / Vitoria versus nearby

If Gasteiz / Vitoria is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Bilbao is a better bet in November — 3.2 °C warmer, the same number of rain days. Zaragoza is a better bet in November — 4.2 °C warmer, 9 days less rain.

So: November is a compromise. July is 39 points better and is what Gasteiz / Vitoria 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 Gasteiz / Vitoria

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