Weather in Rome in November

A good month. November works. It is not the peak, but nothing about it fights you. Highs average 18.1 °C, lows 10.1 °C, and rain falls on 13 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

November ranks 7 of 12 in Rome: past the worst of the year but short of April, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain on 13 days, 4 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. 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. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest November day reached 27 °C and the coldest night fell to -0.2 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 47 mm — roughly 41% of the month's rain in one day.

November is moderately variable: 23 mm in the driest year against 225 mm in the wettest, around an average of 114 mm. Roughly two Novembers in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 8.6 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 80%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How November sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 5.5 °C cooler than October, with December dropping another 4.4 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip.

Daylight in November

9.9 hours of daylight, losing 1 hours across the month. That is between Rome's extremes of 15.2 and 9.2 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 19 °C in November — swimmable, but it takes a moment to commit. The sea peaks at 25.8 °C in August and bottoms out at 14 °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 Rome versus nearby

If Rome 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, the same number of rain days. Positano is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day more rain.

So: November works, with April the better month by 15 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

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