Weather in Melbourne in November

Prime time. November is about as good as Melbourne gets. Highs average 21.8 °C, lows 11.8 °C, and rain falls on 10 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

November ranks 6 of 12 in Melbourne: past the worst of the year but short of January, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain on 10 days, 2 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Nothing specialised needed — this is the month you pack for the trip rather than for the weather.

What the averages hide

The averages here are honest — no hidden extremes worth planning around. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest November day reached 35.9 °C and the coldest night fell to 4.3 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 48 mm — roughly 65% of the month's rain in one day.

November is statistically steady but not small: the year-to-year variation is modest in relative terms, yet the wettest November on record still delivered 131 mm against 33 mm in the driest. In a month this wet, even a tame spread is a lot of rain in absolute terms — the 74 mm average is a reasonable planning figure, not a promise.

Wind is light at 11.6 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 up: 2.9 °C warmer than October, and December adds another 2.1 °C. Late in the month feels noticeably different from the start of it, which is worth knowing if the trip is short.

Daylight in November

14.1 hours of daylight, gaining 0.9 hours across the month. That is between Melbourne's extremes of 14.8 and 9.6 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

An inland climate

Despite being inland, the year stays fairly even: 19.2 °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 Melbourne versus nearby

If Melbourne is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Ballarat is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day less rain. Bendigo is close enough to be a coin toss — 3.4 °C warmer, 2 days less rain.

So: November is effectively as good as it gets here — 6 points behind January, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.

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