Weather in Labasa in November

Shoulder season. November is shoulder season in Labasa — cheaper, quieter, and a genuine gamble. You should expect rain on 18 days of the month, which is more days wet than dry.

November ranks 7 of 12 in Labasa: past the worst of the year but short of July, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain on 18 days, 5 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Pack for 29.2 °C days and 25.3 °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: 8 days top 30 °C — hot spells arrive, but they break; the day barely swings — 3.9 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest November day reached 32.7 °C and the coldest night fell to 21.8 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 86 mm — roughly 51% of the month's rain in one day.

November is moderately variable: 35 mm in the driest year against 472 mm in the wettest, around an average of 170 mm. Roughly two Novembers in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind sits around 16.3 km/h — a steady breeze rather than a nuisance, and welcome on the warmer days, and humidity runs at 78%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How November sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 28.9 °C in October, 29.2 here, 29.6 in December. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in November

Labasa sits close enough to the equator that daylight barely moves all year — 12.9 hours in November, against a range of just 1.9 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: 6.4 °C between the year's warmest afternoons and coldest nights.

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 Labasa versus nearby

If Labasa is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Nadi is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, the same number of rain days. Port-Vila is a better bet in November — 2.5 °C cooler, 1 day less rain.

So: November is a compromise. July is 25 points better and is what Labasa 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 Labasa

See all twelve months in Labasa, or where else to go in November.