Weather in Katoomba in November

Prime time. If you get to pick your dates, November is the one. Highs average 22.9 °C, lows 9.5 °C, and rain falls on 11 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

November ranks 4 of 12 in Katoomba: past the worst of the year but short of October, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain on 11 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 36.4 °C and the coldest night fell to 1.2 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 68 mm — roughly 84% of the month's rain in one day.

November is moderately variable: 25 mm in the driest year against 167 mm in the wettest, around an average of 81 mm. Roughly two Novembers in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 1.7 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 62%.

How November sits in the year

The month is on the way up: 3.3 °C warmer than October, and December adds another 2.1 °C. Late in the month feels noticeably different from the start of it, which is worth knowing if the trip is short.

Daylight in November

November is at or near the longest days of Katoomba's year: 13.8 hours of daylight, gaining 0.8 hours across the month. Evenings are the real gain — dinner outdoors still happens in full light.

An inland climate

With no coast nearby, the year swings a fair way — 26.3 °C between the warmest afternoons and the coldest nights, wider than any coastal city at this latitude would manage. At 991 m the air is thin enough to matter — sun that burns faster than the temperature suggests, and nights that cool off quickly.

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 Katoomba versus nearby

If Katoomba is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Bathurst is close enough to be a coin toss — 2.3 °C warmer, 1 day less rain. Sydney 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 — 4 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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