Weather in Hangzhou in November

A good month. November is a solid month to be in Hangzhou. Highs average 18.5 °C, lows 7.9 °C, and rain falls on 10 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

November ranks 2 of 12 in Hangzhou. Only October scores clearly higher, and the difference is small enough to be settled by price rather than weather.

Rain on 10 days, 2 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. 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: it never really gets hot: not one day in an average November reaches 30 °C. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest November day reached 32.6 °C and the coldest night fell to -5.5 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 45 mm — roughly 58% of the month's rain in one day.

November is moderately variable: 20 mm in the driest year against 185 mm in the wettest, around an average of 77 mm. Roughly two Novembers in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 7.2 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 78%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How November sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 6 °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 Hangzhou's year — 10.7 hours of daylight against 14.1 at midsummer, losing 0.7 hours across the month. Sightseeing days are genuinely shorter, and an itinerary built for summer will not fit.

An inland climate

With no coast nearby, the year swings a fair way — 33.1 °C between the warmest afternoons and the coldest nights, wider than any coastal city at this latitude would manage.

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 Hangzhou versus nearby

If Hangzhou is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Shanghai is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, the same number of rain days. Nanjing is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 3 days less rain.

So: November works, with October the better month by 10 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

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