Weather in Leiria in November

A good month. November works. It is not the peak, but nothing about it fights you. Highs average 18.1 °C, lows 9.3 °C, and rain falls on 13 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

November ranks 10 of 12 — near the bottom of Leiria's year. June is the month that works, and the swing between the two is 32 points, which is a different holiday rather than a slightly better one. Worth keeping in perspective: November is the weakest month of Leiria's year and it is still a perfectly good one. The downside here is small.

Rain on 13 days, 4 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

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: it never really gets hot: not one day in an average November reaches 30 °C. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest November day reached 26.1 °C and the coldest night fell to 1.3 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 43 mm — roughly 43% of the month's rain in one day.

November is moderately variable: 9 mm in the driest year against 177 mm in the wettest, around an average of 100 mm. Roughly two Novembers in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 7.1 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 82%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How November sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 5.6 °C cooler than October, with December dropping another 2.7 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip.

Daylight in November

November sits at the dark end of Leiria's year — 10 hours of daylight against 15 at midsummer, losing 1 hours across the month. Sightseeing days are genuinely shorter, and an itinerary built for summer will not fit.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 17.5 °C in November — cold — a quick dip rather than a swim, and a wetsuit if you are in for longer. The sea peaks at 19.9 °C in August and bottoms out at 14.3 °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

Quiet. Few other visitors, cheaper rooms, and a real chance some seasonal operators are shut.

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

November in Leiria versus nearby

If Leiria is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Aveiro is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, the same number of rain days. Lisbon is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, the same number of rain days.

So: November is a compromise. June is 24 points better and is what Leiria 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 Leiria

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