Weather in Hanoi in November

Prime time. If you get to pick your dates, November is the one. Highs average 25.5 °C, lows 16.6 °C, and rain falls on 7 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

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

Rain on 7 days, 1 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

The averages here are honest — no hidden extremes worth planning around. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest November day reached 32.7 °C and the coldest night fell to 6.2 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 63 mm — roughly 121% of the month's rain in one day.

This is the volatile part. November rainfall has ranged from 2 mm to 157 mm across the twenty years measured — a 155 mm spread around an average of 52 mm. The average is real but almost no individual November looks like it, so treat the figure as the middle of a wide range rather than a forecast.

Wind is light at 5.8 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 82%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How November sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 3 °C cooler than October, with December dropping another 3.9 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip.

Daylight in November

November sits at the dark end of Hanoi's year — 11.2 hours of daylight against 13.4 at midsummer, losing 0.4 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: 21.2 °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 Hanoi versus nearby

If Hanoi is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Haiphong is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, the same number of rain days. Thanh Hóa is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 2 days more rain.

So: November is effectively as good as it gets here — 5 points behind December, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.

Every month in Hanoi

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