Weather in Kansas City in November

A good month. November works. It is not the peak, but nothing about it fights you. Highs sit at 12.5 °C and the day is short; this is an indoors-with-excursions month, not an outdoors-all-day one.

November ranks 5 of 12 in Kansas City: past the worst of the year but short of September, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain falls on only 5 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. Layers, and a genuinely waterproof outer — at 12.5 °C the difference between a good day and a miserable one is entirely down to what you are wearing.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: 13 nights fall below freezing. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest November day reached 25.7 °C and the coldest night fell to -12.6 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 54 mm — roughly 115% of the month's rain in one day.

This is the volatile part. November rainfall has ranged from 8 mm to 159 mm across the twenty years measured — a 151 mm spread around an average of 47 mm. The average is real but almost no individual November looks like it, so treat the figure as the middle of a wide range rather than a forecast.

Wind is light at 11.7 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 76%, which at 12.5 °C means damp rather than muggy — the kind of cold that gets into a coat and stays there.

How November sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 7 °C cooler than October, with December dropping another 7 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip.

Daylight in November

10.1 hours of daylight, losing 0.9 hours across the month. That is between Kansas City's extremes of 14.9 and 9.4 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

An inland climate

With no coast nearby, the year swings a fair way — 38.3 °C between the warmest afternoons and the coldest nights, wider than any coastal city at this latitude would manage.

How busy it gets

Busy. Popular without being frantic; book the things you care about, improvise the rest.

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

November in Kansas City versus nearby

If Kansas City is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Omaha is the weaker option in November — 2.5 °C cooler, the same number of rain days. Wichita is close enough to be a coin toss — 2 °C warmer, 1 day less rain.

So: November works, with September the better month by 14 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

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