Weather in Lima in November

Prime time. November is about as good as Lima gets. Highs average 28.8 °C, lows 21.3 °C, and rain falls on 0 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

Lima barely has seasons. November scores 92 out of 100 against a best of 94 in July — a gap small enough that the month you choose matters far less here than the week you choose.

Rain is not a factor worth planning around this month. Pack for 28.8 °C days and 21.3 °C nights; the spread matters more here than any single number.

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 31.6 °C and the coldest night fell to 18.7 °C.

November is dependably dry, and that reliability is the point: across the twenty years measured, the wettest November on record still only managed 7 mm, and the driest managed 0 mm. There is no meaningful variability to plan around, which makes this one of the few months anywhere that you can build a fixed outdoor itinerary against without a fallback. The wettest single day in twenty years of Novembers brought 6 mm. Rain simply is not the variable that decides this trip — heat, crowds and cost are.

Wind is light at 9.6 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 67%.

How November sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 28.7 °C in October, 28.8 here, 29.2 in December. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in November

Lima sits close enough to the equator that daylight barely moves all year — 12.7 hours in November, against a range of just 1.4 hours across the whole calendar. Sunrise and sunset land at roughly the same time whenever you come.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 18.5 °C in November — swimmable, but it takes a moment to commit. The sea peaks at 22.7 °C in February and bottoms out at 16.6 °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

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 Lima versus nearby

If Lima is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Trujillo is the weaker option in November — 7 °C warmer, 5 days more rain. Cusco is the weaker option in November — 10.4 °C cooler, 12 days more rain.

So: November is effectively as good as it gets here — 2 points behind July, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.

Every month in Lima

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