Weather in Qingdao in November

A good month. November is a solid month to be in Qingdao. Highs sit at 13.2 °C and the day is short; this is an indoors-with-excursions month, not an outdoors-all-day one.

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

Rain falls on only 4 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. Layers, and a genuinely waterproof outer — at 13.2 °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: the day barely swings — 4.5 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest November day reached 22.4 °C and the coldest night fell to -1.9 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 111 mm — roughly 292% of the month's rain in one day.

This is the volatile part. November rainfall has ranged from 0 mm to 146 mm across the twenty years measured — a 146 mm spread around an average of 38 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 sits around 16.5 km/h — a steady breeze rather than a nuisance, and welcome on the warmer days, and humidity is unremarkable at 70%.

How November sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 6.6 °C cooler than October, with December dropping another 6.9 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip.

Daylight in November

10.3 hours of daylight, losing 0.8 hours across the month. That is between Qingdao's extremes of 14.6 and 9.7 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 17 °C in November — cold — a quick dip rather than a swim, and a wetsuit if you are in for longer. The sea peaks at 26.6 °C in August and bottoms out at 6.3 °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

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 Qingdao versus nearby

If Qingdao is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Nanjing is close enough to be a coin toss — 3.9 °C warmer, 3 days more rain. Shanghai is close enough to be a coin toss — 4.5 °C warmer, 6 days more rain.

So: November is a compromise. October is 22 points better and is what Qingdao is actually like at its best — worth moving the trip for if that is possible, and worth adjusting expectations for if it is not.

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