Weather in Kagoshima in November

A good month. November works. It is not the peak, but nothing about it fights you. Highs average 19.8 °C, lows 13.5 °C, and rain falls on 11 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

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

Rain on 11 days, 4 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 27.9 °C and the coldest night fell to 5.1 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 84 mm — roughly 66% of the month's rain in one day.

November is statistically steady but not small: the year-to-year variation is modest in relative terms, yet the wettest November on record still delivered 256 mm against 56 mm in the driest. In a month this wet, even a tame spread is a lot of rain in absolute terms — the 127 mm average is a reasonable planning figure, not a promise.

Wind is light at 12.9 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: 5 °C cooler than October, with December dropping another 5.2 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip.

Daylight in November

November sits at the dark end of Kagoshima's year — 10.6 hours of daylight against 14.2 at midsummer, losing 0.7 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 24.4 °C in November — warm enough to stay in as long as you like. The sea peaks at 29.2 °C in August and bottoms out at 20.1 °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

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 Kagoshima versus nearby

If Kagoshima is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Fukuoka is close enough to be a coin toss — 2.4 °C cooler, 2 days less rain. Kitakyushu is close enough to be a coin toss — 2.8 °C cooler, 1 day less rain.

So: November is effectively as good as it gets here — 1 points behind October, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.

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