Weather in Kakamega in November

A good month. November works. It is not the peak, but nothing about it fights you. You should expect rain on 23 days of the month, which is more days wet than dry.

November ranks 10 of 12 — near the bottom of Kakamega's year. January is the month that works, and the swing between the two is 23 points, which is a different holiday rather than a slightly better one. Worth keeping in perspective: November is the weakest month of Kakamega's year and it is still a perfectly good one. The downside here is small.

Rain on 23 of the month's 30 days, 5 of them heavy. At that frequency a wet-weather backup is not a contingency, it is the itinerary — book the indoor things first and treat the clear days as the bonus. 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 29.2 °C and the coldest night fell to 13 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 81 mm — roughly 47% of the month's rain in one day.

November is moderately variable: 48 mm in the driest year against 368 mm in the wettest, around an average of 174 mm. Roughly two Novembers in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 8.3 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 79%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How November sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 25.8 °C in October, 25.6 here, 26.1 in December. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much. Rain is the thing that moves: December brings 10 days less of it, so pushing the dates later buys drier weather.

Daylight in November

Kakamega sits close enough to the equator that daylight barely moves all year — 12.1 hours in November, against a range of just 0 hours across the whole calendar. Sunrise and sunset land at roughly the same time whenever you come.

An inland climate

Despite being inland, the year stays fairly even: 14.9 °C between the year's warmest afternoons and coldest nights. At 1563 m, altitude is doing as much work here as latitude: thinner air means fierce sun by day and heat that leaves the moment it sets.

How busy it gets

Quiet. Few other visitors, cheaper rooms, and a real chance some seasonal operators are shut.

Crowd levels are estimated from climate desirability and school-holiday calendars, not from visitor numbers.

November in Kakamega versus nearby

If Kakamega is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Nakuru is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 2 days more rain. Nairobi is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 2 days less rain.

So: November works, with January the better month by 16 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

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