Weather in Spokane in November

A hard month. November is a hard month in Spokane, and worth planning around. Highs sit at 7.1 °C and the day is short; this is an indoors-with-excursions month, not an outdoors-all-day one.

November ranks 9 of 12 in Spokane: past the worst of the year but short of September, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

This is persistent light rain rather than storms: 14 wet days but only 1 heavy ones. It rarely cancels anything outright, and it rarely fully clears either. A jacket beats an umbrella. Layers, and a genuinely waterproof outer — at 7.1 °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: 18 nights fall below freezing. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest November day reached 18.5 °C and the coldest night fell to -17.7 °C.

November is statistically steady but not small: the year-to-year variation is modest in relative terms, yet the wettest November on record still delivered 158 mm against 21 mm in the driest. In a month this wet, even a tame spread is a lot of rain in absolute terms — the 69 mm average is a reasonable planning figure, not a promise.

Wind is light at 7.6 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 83%, which at 7.1 °C means damp rather than muggy — the kind of cold that gets into a coat and stays there.

How November sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 8.2 °C cooler than October, with December dropping another 5.6 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip. Rain has already shifted: 5 days more than October had.

Daylight in November

9.3 hours of daylight, losing 1.3 hours across the month. That is between Spokane's extremes of 16 and 8.5 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

An inland climate

With no coast nearby, the year swings a fair way — 34.9 °C between the warmest afternoons and the coldest nights, wider than any coastal city at this latitude would manage.

How busy it gets

Off season. The genuine off season: cheapest by a distance, with the caveat that some tours and restaurants close entirely.

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

November in Spokane versus nearby

If Spokane is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Tri-Cities is a better bet in November — 4.7 °C warmer, 6 days less rain. Kelowna is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day less rain.

So: November is a compromise. September is 60 points better and is what Spokane 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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