Weather in Houston in November

Prime time. November is about as good as Houston gets. Highs average 22.4 °C, lows 10.8 °C, and rain falls on 8 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

November ranks 3 of 12 in Houston. Only March scores clearly higher, and the difference is small enough to be settled by price rather than weather.

Rain on 8 days, 3 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 31.4 °C and the coldest night fell to -3 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 82 mm — roughly 87% of the month's rain in one day.

November is moderately variable: 21 mm in the driest year against 325 mm in the wettest, around an average of 94 mm. Roughly two Novembers in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 6.6 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: 5.8 °C cooler than October, with December dropping another 4.5 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip.

Daylight in November

November sits at the dark end of Houston's year — 10.7 hours of daylight against 14 at midsummer, losing 0.6 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 — 30 °C between the warmest afternoons and the coldest nights, wider than any coastal city at this latitude would manage.

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 Houston versus nearby

If Houston is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Corpus Christi is close enough to be a coin toss — 2.6 °C warmer, 2 days less rain. San Antonio is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 3 days less rain.

So: November is effectively as good as it gets here — 0 points behind March, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.

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