Weather in Tampa in November

Prime time. November is about as good as Tampa gets. Highs average 24.4 °C, lows 15.8 °C, and rain falls on 6 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

November is the highest-scoring month of the twelve. The nearest rival is January, and the month at the other end of the year is August.

Rain falls on only 6 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. 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 29.8 °C and the coldest night fell to 4.4 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 58 mm — roughly 118% of the month's rain in one day.

November is moderately variable: 1 mm in the driest year against 124 mm in the wettest, around an average of 49 mm. Roughly two Novembers in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 11.1 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: 3.2 °C cooler than October, with December dropping another 2.2 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip. Rain has already shifted: 5 days fewer than October had.

Daylight in November

November sits at the dark end of Tampa's year — 10.8 hours of daylight against 13.9 at midsummer, losing 0.6 hours across the month. Sightseeing days are genuinely shorter, and an itinerary built for summer will not fit.

An inland climate

Despite being inland, the year stays fairly even: 19.7 °C between the year's warmest afternoons and coldest nights.

How busy it gets

Peak season. Expect the highest prices of the year and to be booking well ahead.

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

November in Tampa versus nearby

If Tampa is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Cape Coral is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 2 days more rain. Jacksonville is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day more rain.

So: November is the answer for Tampa. If it is booked out or priced out, January is the next best thing at 3 points behind, and August is the month to keep off the shortlist.

Every month in Tampa

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