Weather in Positano in November

A good month. November is a solid month to be in Positano. Highs average 18.2 °C, lows 16 °C, and rain falls on 14 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

November ranks 8 of 12 in Positano: past the worst of the year but short of July, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

This is wet-season rain: 14 wet days and 5 genuinely heavy ones, which in this climate means concentrated downpours rather than all-day grey. The pattern is usually a clear morning and a loud afternoon, so front-load the day and stop fighting the 3pm hour. 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; the day barely swings — 2.1 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest November day reached 23.8 °C and the coldest night fell to 6.7 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 49 mm — roughly 38% of the month's rain in one day.

November is moderately variable: 48 mm in the driest year against 333 mm in the wettest, around an average of 130 mm. Roughly two Novembers in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind sits around 16.1 km/h — a steady breeze rather than a nuisance, and welcome on the warmer days, and humidity runs at 75%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How November sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 3.2 °C cooler than October, with December dropping another 3.3 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip.

Daylight in November

10 hours of daylight, losing 1 hours across the month. That is between Positano's extremes of 15.1 and 9.3 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 19.5 °C in November — swimmable, but it takes a moment to commit. The sea peaks at 26.7 °C in August and bottoms out at 14.3 °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

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 Positano versus nearby

If Positano is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Naples is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day less rain. Bari is a better bet in November — within a degree on temperature, 4 days less rain.

So: November is a compromise. July is 26 points better and is what Positano 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 Positano

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