Weather in Guangzhou in November

Prime time. November is about as good as Guangzhou gets. Highs average 26.3 °C, lows 14.9 °C, and rain falls on 6 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

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

Rain falls on only 6 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. Nothing specialised needed — this is the month you pack for the trip rather than for the weather.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: 4 days top 30 °C — hot spells arrive, but they break. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest November day reached 33.6 °C and the coldest night fell to 3.4 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 40 mm — roughly 98% of the month's rain in one day.

November is moderately variable: 0 mm in the driest year against 128 mm in the wettest, around an average of 41 mm. Roughly two Novembers in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 8.5 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 73%.

How November sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 2.7 °C cooler than October, with December dropping another 4.8 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip.

Daylight in November

November sits at the dark end of Guangzhou's year — 11 hours of daylight against 13.5 at midsummer, losing 0.5 hours across the month. Sightseeing days are genuinely shorter, and an itinerary built for summer will not fit.

An inland climate

Despite being inland, the year stays fairly even: 23 °C between the year's warmest afternoons and coldest nights.

How busy it gets

Peak season. Expect the highest prices of the year and to be booking well ahead.

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

November in Guangzhou versus nearby

If Guangzhou is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Shenzhen is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day less rain. Haiphong is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day more rain.

So: November is effectively as good as it gets here — 2 points behind December, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.

Every month in Guangzhou

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