Weather in Omaha in November

A hard month. November asks something of you. Go in knowing what. Highs sit at 10 °C and the day is short; this is an indoors-with-excursions month, not an outdoors-all-day one.

November ranks 9 of 12 in Omaha: past the worst of the year but short of September, 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 10 °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: 18 nights fall below freezing. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest November day reached 26.2 °C and the coldest night fell to -13.2 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 34 mm — roughly 113% of the month's rain in one day.

November is moderately variable: 2 mm in the driest year against 73 mm in the wettest, around an average of 30 mm. Roughly two Novembers in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 12.6 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 down: 7.7 °C cooler than October, with December dropping another 8 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip.

Daylight in November

9.9 hours of daylight, losing 1 hours across the month. That is between Omaha's extremes of 15.1 and 9.2 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

An inland climate

Omaha has no sea to moderate it, and it shows: 41.2 °C separates the hottest afternoon of the year from the coldest night. That is a genuinely continental range, and it means summer and winter here are barely the same place.

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 Omaha versus nearby

If Omaha is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Des Moines is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day more rain. Sioux Falls is close enough to be a coin toss — 2.8 °C cooler, 1 day less rain.

So: November is a compromise. September is 32 points better and is what Omaha 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 Omaha

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