Weather in Luang Prabang in November

A good month. November works. It is not the peak, but nothing about it fights you. Highs average 30.8 °C, lows 18.7 °C, and rain falls on 5 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

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

Rain falls on only 5 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. Pack for 30.8 °C days and 18.7 °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: 19 days top 30 °C — hot spells arrive, but they break. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest November day reached 38 °C and the coldest night fell to 8.9 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 35 mm — roughly 152% of the month's rain in one day.

This is the volatile part. November rainfall has ranged from 0 mm to 114 mm across the twenty years measured — a 114 mm spread around an average of 23 mm. The average is real but almost no individual November looks like it, so treat the figure as the middle of a wide range rather than a forecast.

Wind is light at 0.8 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 70%.

How November sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 1.6 °C cooler than October, with December dropping another 2.3 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip. Rain has already shifted: 5 days fewer than October had.

Daylight in November

November sits at the dark end of Luang Prabang's year — 11.2 hours of daylight against 13.3 at midsummer, losing 0.4 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: 20.7 °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 Luang Prabang versus nearby

If Luang Prabang is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Udon Thani is a better bet in November — within a degree on temperature, 2 days less rain. Sa Pa is close enough to be a coin toss — 12 °C cooler, 3 days more rain.

So: November works, with December the better month by 15 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

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