Weather in Mount Gambier in November

Prime time. If you get to pick your dates, November is the one. Highs average 18.4 °C, lows 11.3 °C, and rain falls on 9 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

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

Rain on 9 days, 1 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 33.1 °C and the coldest night fell to 7 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 53 mm — roughly 106% of the month's rain in one day.

November is moderately variable: 14 mm in the driest year against 117 mm in the wettest, around an average of 50 mm. Roughly two Novembers in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 13.4 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 74%.

How November sits in the year

The month is on the way up: 2 °C warmer than October, and December adds another 1.6 °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 Mount Gambier's extremes of 14.8 and 9.6 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 14.8 °C in November — cold — a quick dip rather than a swim, and a wetsuit if you are in for longer. The sea peaks at 17.9 °C in February and bottoms out at 13.7 °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

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 Mount Gambier versus nearby

If Mount Gambier is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Warrnambool is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, the same number of rain days. Ballarat is close enough to be a coin toss — 3.8 °C warmer, the same number of rain days.

So: November works, with January the better month by 12 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

Every month in Mount Gambier

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