Weather in Moab in November

A good month. November works. It is not the peak, but nothing about it fights you. Highs sit at 14.5 °C and the day is short; this is an indoors-with-excursions month, not an outdoors-all-day one.

November ranks 5 of 12 in Moab: 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 5 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. Layers, and a genuinely waterproof outer — at 14.5 °C the difference between a good day and a miserable one is entirely down to what you are wearing.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: 8 nights fall below freezing. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest November day reached 26.6 °C and the coldest night fell to -9.3 °C.

November is moderately variable: 2 mm in the driest year against 44 mm in the wettest, around an average of 21 mm. Roughly two Novembers in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 7.5 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 52%.

How November sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 7.4 °C cooler than October, with December dropping another 6.8 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip.

Daylight in November

November sits at the dark end of Moab's year — 10.1 hours of daylight against 14.8 at midsummer, losing 0.9 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 — 39.1 °C between the warmest afternoons and the coldest nights, wider than any coastal city at this latitude would manage. At 1227 m the air is thin enough to matter — sun that burns faster than the temperature suggests, and nights that cool off quickly.

How busy it gets

Shoulder. The value months — prices ease off and you get the place closer to itself.

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

November in Moab versus nearby

If Moab is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Aspen is the weaker option in November — 8.8 °C cooler, 5 days more rain. Park City is the weaker option in November — 8.5 °C cooler, 4 days more rain.

So: November works, with April the better month by 18 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

Every month in Moab

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