Weather in Mobile in November

Prime time. November is about as good as Mobile gets. Highs average 20.8 °C, lows 13 °C, and rain falls on 8 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

November is the highest-scoring month of the twelve. The nearest rival is October, and the month at the other end of the year is July.

Rain on 8 days, 3 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

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. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest November day reached 29.1 °C and the coldest night fell to 0.2 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 71 mm — roughly 84% of the month's rain in one day.

November is moderately variable: 16 mm in the driest year against 186 mm in the wettest, around an average of 85 mm. Roughly two Novembers in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 10.8 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 78%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How November sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 5 °C cooler than October, with December dropping another 3.8 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip.

Daylight in November

November sits at the dark end of Mobile's year — 10.6 hours of daylight against 14.1 at midsummer, losing 0.7 hours across the month. Sightseeing days are genuinely shorter, and an itinerary built for summer will not fit.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 23.8 °C in November — comfortable for a proper swim. The sea peaks at 29.8 °C in August and bottoms out at 19 °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.

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

November in Mobile versus nearby

If Mobile is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. New Orleans is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, the same number of rain days. Montgomery is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day less rain.

So: November is the answer for Mobile. If it is booked out or priced out, October is the next best thing at 2 points behind, and July is the month to keep off the shortlist.

Every month in Mobile

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