Weather in Los Angeles in November

Prime time. If you get to pick your dates, November is the one. Highs average 24.1 °C, lows 13 °C, and rain falls on 3 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

November ranks 3 of 12 in Los Angeles. Only May scores clearly higher, and the difference is small enough to be settled by price rather than weather.

Rain falls on only 3 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. 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: 4 days top 30 °C — hot spells arrive, but they break. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest November day reached 34.9 °C and the coldest night fell to 3.4 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 43 mm — roughly 172% of the month's rain in one day.

November is moderately variable: 2 mm in the driest year against 74 mm in the wettest, around an average of 25 mm. Roughly two Novembers in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 7.4 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 53%.

How November sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 4.2 °C cooler than October, with December dropping another 4.3 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip.

Daylight in November

November sits at the dark end of Los Angeles's year — 10.4 hours of daylight against 14.4 at midsummer, losing 0.8 hours across the month. Sightseeing days are genuinely shorter, and an itinerary built for summer will not fit.

An inland climate

Despite being inland, the year stays fairly even: 23 °C between the year's warmest afternoons and coldest nights.

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 Los Angeles versus nearby

If Los Angeles is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Irvine is close enough to be a coin toss — 3.9 °C cooler, the same number of rain days. Riverside is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day more rain.

So: November is effectively as good as it gets here — 3 points behind May, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.

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