Weather in Reno in November

Shoulder season. November is shoulder season in Reno — cheaper, quieter, and a genuine gamble. Highs sit at 12.5 °C and the day is short; this is an indoors-with-excursions month, not an outdoors-all-day one.

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

Rain on 8 days, 2 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Layers, and a genuinely waterproof outer — at 12.5 °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: 10 nights fall below freezing. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest November day reached 25.8 °C and the coldest night fell to -16.6 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 56 mm — roughly 97% of the month's rain in one day.

November is moderately variable: 15 mm in the driest year against 134 mm in the wettest, around an average of 58 mm. Roughly two Novembers in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 5.1 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 63%.

How November sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 7.7 °C cooler than October, with December dropping another 6.3 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip.

Daylight in November

November sits at the dark end of Reno's year — 10 hours of daylight against 14.9 at midsummer, losing 1 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 — 35.8 °C between the warmest afternoons and the coldest nights, wider than any coastal city at this latitude would manage. At 1373 m the air is thin enough to matter — sun that burns faster than the temperature suggests, and nights that cool off quickly.

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 Reno versus nearby

If Reno is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Sacramento is a better bet in November — 7.5 °C warmer, 1 day less rain. Napa is a better bet in November — 7 °C warmer, 1 day less rain.

So: November is a compromise. June is 35 points better and is what Reno 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 Reno

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