Weather in Manali in November

Shoulder season. November sits in between. You will get good days and you will lose some. You should expect rain on 17 days of the month, which is more days wet than dry.

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

This is wet-season rain: 17 wet days and 8 genuinely heavy ones, which in this climate means concentrated downpours rather than all-day grey. The pattern is usually a clear morning and a loud afternoon, so front-load the day and stop fighting the 3pm hour. Natural fibres and a second shirt for the day. At 82% nothing dries, including you.

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; the day barely swings — 5.1 °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 18.3 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 179 mm — roughly 61% of the month's rain in one day.

November is moderately variable: 24 mm in the driest year against 991 mm in the wettest, around an average of 292 mm. Roughly two Novembers in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 11.7 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 82%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How November sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 30.7 °C in October, 28.9 here, 27.9 in December. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much. Rain is the thing that moves: December brings 8 days less of it, so pushing the dates later buys drier weather.

Daylight in November

Manali sits close enough to the equator that daylight barely moves all year — 11.5 hours in November, against a range of just 1.5 hours across the whole calendar. Sunrise and sunset land at roughly the same time whenever you come.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 28.5 °C in November — warm enough that the water offers no relief from the heat. The sea peaks at 30.2 °C in May and bottoms out at 26.8 °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

Quiet. Few other visitors, cheaper rooms, and a real chance some seasonal operators are shut.

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

November in Manali versus nearby

If Manali is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Kallakurichi is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day less rain. Bengaluru is a better bet in November — 2.3 °C cooler, 8 days less rain.

So: November is a compromise. January is 34 points better and is what Manali is actually like at its best — worth moving the trip for if that is possible, and worth adjusting expectations for if it is not.

Every month in Manali

See all twelve months in Manali, or where else to go in November.