Weather in Maceió in November

A good month. November is a solid month to be in Maceió. Highs average 30.1 °C, lows 24.5 °C, and rain falls on 6 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

November ranks 2 of 12 in Maceió. Only October scores clearly higher, and the difference is small enough to be settled by price rather than weather.

Rain falls on only 6 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. Pack for 30.1 °C days and 24.5 °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: 16 days top 30 °C — hot spells arrive, but they break; the day barely swings — 5.5 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest November day reached 34.3 °C and the coldest night fell to 23.2 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 30 mm — roughly 120% of the month's rain in one day.

This is the volatile part. November rainfall has ranged from 4 mm to 75 mm across the twenty years measured — a 71 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 sits around 16.6 km/h — a steady breeze rather than a nuisance, and welcome on the warmer days, and humidity is unremarkable at 72%.

How November sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 28.9 °C in October, 30.1 here, 30.5 in December. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in November

Maceió sits close enough to the equator that daylight barely moves all year — 12.5 hours in November, against a range of just 1.1 hours across the whole calendar. Sunrise and sunset land at roughly the same time whenever you come.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 27 °C in November — warm enough that the water offers no relief from the heat. The sea peaks at 28.7 °C in April and bottoms out at 26.2 °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

Peak season. Expect the highest prices of the year and to be booking well ahead. If the dates are flexible, August is the trade worth considering — 11 points weaker on weather, and materially quieter.

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

November in Maceió versus nearby

If Maceió is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Recife is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, the same number of rain days. Salvador is the weaker option in November — within a degree on temperature, 6 days more rain.

So: November is effectively as good as it gets here — 0 points behind October, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.

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