Weather in Phoenix in November

Prime time. November is about as good as Phoenix gets. Highs average 25.9 °C, lows 11.7 °C, and rain falls on 2 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

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

Rain falls on only 2 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. 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: 6 days top 30 °C — hot spells arrive, but they break. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest November day reached 37.4 °C and the coldest night fell to -0.9 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 43 mm — roughly 226% of the month's rain in one day.

This is the volatile part. November rainfall has ranged from 0 mm to 82 mm across the twenty years measured — a 82 mm spread around an average of 19 mm. The average is real but almost no individual November looks like it, so treat the figure as the middle of a wide range rather than a forecast.

Wind is light at 7 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and the air is dry at 34% humidity, which makes the heat far more bearable than the same figure somewhere humid — and dehydrates you faster than you expect.

How November sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 6.6 °C cooler than October, with December dropping another 6.2 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip.

Daylight in November

November sits at the dark end of Phoenix's year — 10.5 hours of daylight against 14.4 at midsummer, losing 0.8 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 — 35.6 °C between the warmest afternoons and the coldest nights, wider than any coastal city at this latitude would manage. Within November itself the daily swing is 14.2 °C, so mornings and afternoons need different clothes.

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 Phoenix versus nearby

If Phoenix is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Sedona is the weaker option in November — 8 °C cooler, 2 days more rain. Tucson is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, the same number of rain days.

So: November is the answer for Phoenix. If it is booked out or priced out, March is the next best thing at 3 points behind, and September is the month to keep off the shortlist.

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