Weather in Sioux Falls in November

A hard month. November is a hard month in Sioux Falls, and worth planning around. Highs sit at 7.2 °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 Sioux Falls: past the worst of the year but short of September, 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 7.2 °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: 22 nights drop below freezing, so anything left outside stays frozen. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest November day reached 25.2 °C and the coldest night fell to -16.7 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 33 mm — roughly 143% of the month's rain in one day.

This is the volatile part. November rainfall has ranged from 2 mm to 100 mm across the twenty years measured — a 98 mm spread around an average of 23 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 is light at 12.6 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 74%.

How November sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 8.1 °C cooler than October, with December dropping another 8.1 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip.

Daylight in November

9.7 hours of daylight, losing 1.1 hours across the month. That is between Sioux Falls's extremes of 15.4 and 9 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

An inland climate

Sioux Falls has no sea to moderate it, and it shows: 43 °C separates the hottest afternoon of the year from the coldest night. That is a genuinely continental range, and it means summer and winter here are barely the same place.

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 Sioux Falls versus nearby

If Sioux Falls is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Omaha is close enough to be a coin toss — 2.8 °C warmer, 1 day more rain. Minneapolis is the weaker option in November — within a degree on temperature, 2 days more rain.

So: November is a compromise. September is 36 points better and is what Sioux Falls 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 Sioux Falls

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