Weather in Gijón in November

Shoulder season. November sits in between. You will get good days and you will lose some. You should expect rain on 17 days of the month, which is more days wet than dry.

November ranks 10 of 12 — near the bottom of Gijón's year. July is the month that works, and the swing between the two is 37 points, which is a different holiday rather than a slightly better one.

Rain on 17 days, 4 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Pack for 16.2 °C days and 10.4 °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 — 5.8 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest November day reached 25.2 °C and the coldest night fell to 2.6 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 52 mm — roughly 42% of the month's rain in one day.

November is moderately variable: 40 mm in the driest year against 347 mm in the wettest, around an average of 124 mm. Roughly two Novembers in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 12 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 80%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How November sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 5.2 °C cooler than October, with December dropping another 2.1 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip.

Daylight in November

9.7 hours of daylight, losing 1.1 hours across the month. That is between Gijón's extremes of 15.4 and 9 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 15.9 °C in November — cold — a quick dip rather than a swim, and a wetsuit if you are in for longer. The sea peaks at 20.9 °C in August and bottoms out at 12.5 °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

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 Gijón versus nearby

If Gijón is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Valladolid is close enough to be a coin toss — 2.8 °C cooler, 8 days less rain. Bilbao is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day less rain.

So: November is a compromise. July is 31 points better and is what Gijón 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 Gijón

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