Weather in Jackson in November

Prime time. November is about as good as Jackson gets. Highs average 19.5 °C, lows 6.8 °C, and rain falls on 8 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

November ranks 2 of 12 in Jackson. Only October 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

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; 3 nights fall below freezing. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest November day reached 31.9 °C and the coldest night fell to -8.2 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 70 mm — roughly 69% of the month's rain in one day.

November is moderately variable: 32 mm in the driest year against 208 mm in the wettest, around an average of 101 mm. Roughly two Novembers in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 3.4 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 76%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How November sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 6.7 °C cooler than October, with December dropping another 5.1 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip.

Daylight in November

November sits at the dark end of Jackson's year — 10.5 hours of daylight against 14.3 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 — 31.6 °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 Jackson versus nearby

If Jackson is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Baton Rouge is close enough to be a coin toss — 2.4 °C warmer, 1 day more rain. New Orleans is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, the same number of rain days.

So: November is effectively as good as it gets here — 2 points behind October, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.

Every month in Jackson

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