Weather in Recife in November

A good month. November is a solid month to be in Recife. Highs average 30.9 °C, lows 24.3 °C, and rain falls on 6 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

November ranks 2 of 12 in Recife. Only October scores clearly higher, and the difference is small enough to be settled by price rather than weather.

Rain falls on only 6 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. Pack for 30.9 °C days and 24.3 °C nights; the spread matters more here than any single number.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: 27 days top 30 °C, making the heat continuous rather than occasional. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest November day reached 33.6 °C and the coldest night fell to 22.7 °C.

November is moderately variable: 6 mm in the driest year against 53 mm in the wettest, around an average of 24 mm. Roughly two Novembers in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 14.4 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 71%.

How November sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 29.8 °C in October, 30.9 here, 31.3 in December. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in November

Recife sits close enough to the equator that daylight barely moves all year — 12.5 hours in November, against a range of just 0.9 hours across the whole calendar. Sunrise and sunset land at roughly the same time whenever you come.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 27.2 °C in November — warm enough that the water offers no relief from the heat. The sea peaks at 28.8 °C in April and bottoms out at 26.4 °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

Peak season. Expect the highest prices of the year and to be booking well ahead. If the dates are flexible, August is the trade worth considering — 10 points weaker on weather, and materially quieter.

Crowd levels are estimated from climate desirability and school-holiday calendars, not from visitor numbers.

November in Recife versus nearby

If Recife is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Maceió is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, the same number of rain days. Fortaleza is a better bet in November — within a degree on temperature, 4 days less rain.

So: November is effectively as good as it gets here — 0 points behind October, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.

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