Weather in Kingston upon Hull in November

A hard month. November is a hard month in Kingston upon Hull, and worth planning around. Highs sit at 9.8 °C and the day is short; this is an indoors-with-excursions month, not an outdoors-all-day one.

November ranks 9 of 12 in Kingston upon Hull: past the worst of the year but short of September, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

This is persistent light rain rather than storms: 14 wet days but only 1 heavy ones. It rarely cancels anything outright, and it rarely fully clears either. A jacket beats an umbrella. Layers, and a genuinely waterproof outer — at 9.8 °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: 3 nights fall below freezing; the day barely swings — 5.6 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest November day reached 18.7 °C and the coldest night fell to -4.6 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 34 mm — roughly 50% of the month's rain in one day.

November is moderately variable: 28 mm in the driest year against 146 mm in the wettest, around an average of 68 mm. Roughly two Novembers in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

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 93%, which at 9.8 °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: 4.7 °C cooler than October, with December dropping another 3.1 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip.

Daylight in November

8.6 hours of daylight, losing 1.7 hours across the month. That is between Kingston upon Hull's extremes of 17 and 7.5 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 10.5 °C in November — too cold to swim without a wetsuit. The sea peaks at 15.8 °C in August and bottoms out at 6.5 °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

Off season. The genuine off season: cheapest by a distance, with the caveat that some tours and restaurants close entirely.

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

November in Kingston upon Hull versus nearby

If Kingston upon Hull is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Manchester is the weaker option in November — within a degree on temperature, 4 days more rain. Birmingham is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day more rain.

So: November is a compromise. September is 34 points better and is what Kingston upon Hull is actually like at its best — worth moving the trip for if that is possible, and worth adjusting expectations for if it is not.

Every month in Kingston upon Hull

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