Weather in Gwangju in November

A good month. November is a solid month to be in Gwangju. Highs sit at 13.7 °C and the day is short; this is an indoors-with-excursions month, not an outdoors-all-day one.

November ranks 6 of 12 in Gwangju: past the worst of the year but short of October, 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. Layers, and a genuinely waterproof outer — at 13.7 °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: 6 nights fall below freezing. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest November day reached 24.3 °C and the coldest night fell to -4.9 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 57 mm — roughly 119% of the month's rain in one day.

November is moderately variable: 1 mm in the driest year against 158 mm in the wettest, around an average of 48 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 80%, which at 13.7 °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: 6.7 °C cooler than October, with December dropping another 7.1 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip.

Daylight in November

November sits at the dark end of Gwangju's year — 10.4 hours of daylight against 14.5 at midsummer, losing 0.8 hours across the month. Sightseeing days are genuinely shorter, and an itinerary built for summer will not fit.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 20.1 °C in November — swimmable, but it takes a moment to commit. The sea peaks at 27.3 °C in August and bottoms out at 14.4 °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

Shoulder. The value months — prices ease off and you get the place closer to itself.

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

November in Gwangju versus nearby

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

So: November is a compromise. October is 20 points better and is what Gwangju 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 Gwangju

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