Weather in Tokyo in November

A good month. November is a solid month to be in Tokyo. Highs average 16.8 °C, lows 8.8 °C, and rain falls on 10 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

November ranks 5 of 12 in Tokyo: past the worst of the year but short of May, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain on 10 days, 4 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Pack for 16.8 °C days and 8.8 °C nights; the spread matters more here than any single number.

What the averages hide

The averages here are honest — no hidden extremes worth planning around. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest November day reached 23.8 °C and the coldest night fell to 1.1 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 73 mm — roughly 61% of the month's rain in one day.

November is moderately variable: 29 mm in the driest year against 302 mm in the wettest, around an average of 120 mm. Roughly two Novembers in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 8.4 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: 5.3 °C cooler than October, with December dropping another 5.2 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip.

Daylight in November

November sits at the dark end of Tokyo's year — 10.3 hours of daylight against 14.6 at midsummer, losing 0.8 hours across the month. Sightseeing days are genuinely shorter, and an itinerary built for summer will not fit.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 23.2 °C in November — comfortable for a proper swim. The sea peaks at 27.8 °C in August and bottoms out at 18 °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

Busy. Popular without being frantic; book the things you care about, improvise the rest.

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

November in Tokyo versus nearby

If Tokyo is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Utsunomiya is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 3 days less rain. Hamamatsu is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day less rain.

So: November is effectively as good as it gets here — 6 points behind May, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.

Every month in Tokyo

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