Weather in Lubbock in November

Prime time. If you get to pick your dates, November is the one. Highs average 18 °C, lows 3.5 °C, and rain falls on 3 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

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

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: it never really gets hot: not one day in an average November reaches 30 °C; 6 nights fall below freezing. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest November day reached 30.4 °C and the coldest night fell to -8.4 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 51 mm — roughly 204% of the month's rain in one day.

This is the volatile part. November rainfall has ranged from 0 mm to 157 mm across the twenty years measured — a 157 mm spread around an average of 25 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 11.7 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 55%.

How November sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 6.5 °C cooler than October, with December dropping another 5.3 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip.

Daylight in November

November sits at the dark end of Lubbock's year — 10.5 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

With no coast nearby, the year swings a fair way — 36.1 °C between the warmest afternoons and the coldest nights, wider than any coastal city at this latitude would manage. At 976 m the air is thin enough to matter — sun that burns faster than the temperature suggests, and nights that cool off quickly. Within November itself the daily swing is 14.5 °C, so mornings and afternoons need different clothes.

How busy it gets

Peak season. Expect the highest prices of the year and to be booking well ahead.

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

November in Lubbock versus nearby

If Lubbock is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Amarillo is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, the same number of rain days. Oklahoma City is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 2 days more rain.

So: November is effectively as good as it gets here — 5 points behind April, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.

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