Weather in Padang in November

A hard month. November asks something of you. Go in knowing what. You should expect rain on 27 days of the month, which is more days wet than dry.

Padang barely has seasons. November scores 45 out of 100 against a best of 47 in January — a gap small enough that the month you choose matters far less here than the week you choose.

Rain on 27 of the month's 30 days, 14 of them heavy. At that frequency a wet-weather backup is not a contingency, it is the itinerary — book the indoor things first and treat the clear days as the bonus. Natural fibres and a second shirt for the day. At 89% nothing dries, including you.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: 11 days top 30 °C — hot spells arrive, but they break; the day barely swings — 4.3 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest November day reached 32.1 °C and the coldest night fell to 23.3 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 181 mm — roughly 41% 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 642 mm against 153 mm in the driest. In a month this wet, even a tame spread is a lot of rain in absolute terms — the 443 mm average is a reasonable planning figure, not a promise.

Wind is light at 4.5 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity at 89% is the real story though — it is the number that decides how the day feels, not the 29.6 °C.

How November sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 29.9 °C in October, 29.6 here, 29.4 in December. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in November

Padang sits close enough to the equator that daylight barely moves all year — 12.2 hours in November, against a range of just 0.1 hours across the whole calendar. Sunrise and sunset land at roughly the same time whenever you come.

An inland climate

Despite being inland, the year stays fairly even: 5.3 °C between the year's warmest afternoons and coldest nights.

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 Padang versus nearby

If Padang is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Pekanbaru is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day more rain. Singapore is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day more rain.

So: November is effectively as good as it gets here — 2 points behind January, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.

Every month in Padang

See all twelve months in Padang, or where else to go in November.