Weather in Knoxville in November

A good month. November works. It is not the peak, but nothing about it fights you. Highs average 16.4 °C, lows 4.1 °C, and rain falls on 9 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

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

Rain on 9 days, 3 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Pack for 16.4 °C days and 4.1 °C nights; the spread matters more here than any single number.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: 7 nights fall below freezing. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest November day reached 29.8 °C and the coldest night fell to -7.5 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 66 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 170 mm against 24 mm in the driest. In a month this wet, even a tame spread is a lot of rain in absolute terms — the 100 mm average is a reasonable planning figure, not a promise.

Wind is light at 3.1 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 74%.

How November sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 6.6 °C cooler than October, with December dropping another 5.4 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip.

Daylight in November

10.3 hours of daylight, losing 0.8 hours across the month. That is between Knoxville's extremes of 14.6 and 9.7 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

An inland climate

With no coast nearby, the year swings a fair way — 33.1 °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 Knoxville versus nearby

If Knoxville is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Atlanta is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day less rain. Nashville is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, the same number of rain days.

So: November works, with October the better month by 11 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

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