Weather in Honolulu in November

A good month. November works. It is not the peak, but nothing about it fights you. You should expect rain on 17 days of the month, which is more days wet than dry.

Honolulu barely has seasons. November scores 70 out of 100 against a best of 81 in May — a gap small enough that the month you choose matters far less here than the week you choose. Worth keeping in perspective: November is the weakest month of Honolulu's year and it is still a perfectly good one. The downside here is small.

This is persistent light rain rather than storms: 17 wet days but only 2 heavy ones. It rarely cancels anything outright, and it rarely fully clears either. A jacket beats an umbrella. 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; the day barely swings — 2.5 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest November day reached 28.9 °C and the coldest night fell to 21.8 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 51 mm — roughly 59% of the month's rain in one day.

November is moderately variable: 35 mm in the driest year against 195 mm in the wettest, around an average of 86 mm. Roughly two Novembers in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind sits around 18.9 km/h — a steady breeze rather than a nuisance, and welcome on the warmer days, and humidity runs at 76%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How November sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 28 °C in October, 26.7 here, 25.6 in December. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in November

November sits at the dark end of Honolulu's year — 11.1 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.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 25.8 °C in November — warm enough to stay in as long as you like. The sea peaks at 26.6 °C in September and bottoms out at 23.7 °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 Honolulu versus nearby

Honolulu has no close neighbour worth comparing against, so the useful question is how November there compares with November elsewhere. San Francisco in November is a different proposition entirely — 8.9 °C cooler, and the easier month overall — 17.8 °C and rain on 7 days, against 26.7 °C and 17 here. San Jose in November is a different proposition entirely — 6.6 °C cooler, and the easier month overall — 20.1 °C and rain on 6 days, against 26.7 °C and 17 here.

So: November works, with May the better month by 11 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

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