Weather in Townsville in November

Shoulder season. November sits in between. You will get good days and you will lose some. Highs average 32.6 °C, lows 23.4 °C, and rain falls on 7 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

November ranks 8 of 12 in Townsville: past the worst of the year but short of August, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain on 7 days, 1 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Pack for 32.6 °C days and 23.4 °C nights; the spread matters more here than any single number.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: 28 days top 30 °C, making the heat continuous rather than occasional. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest November day reached 42.8 °C and the coldest night fell to 18.3 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 40 mm — roughly 95% of the month's rain in one day.

This is the volatile part. November rainfall has ranged from 3 mm to 285 mm across the twenty years measured — a 282 mm spread around an average of 42 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 13.2 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 65%.

How November sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 31.6 °C in October, 32.6 here, 33.5 in December. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in November

November is at or near the longest days of Townsville's year: 13 hours of daylight, gaining 0.4 hours across the month. Evenings are the real gain — dinner outdoors still happens in full light.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 26.9 °C in November — warm enough to stay in as long as you like. The sea peaks at 29 °C in February and bottoms out at 24 °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 Townsville versus nearby

If Townsville is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Airlie Beach is a better bet in November — 3.3 °C cooler, 1 day more rain. Cairns is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 5 days more rain.

So: November is a compromise. August is 34 points better and is what Townsville 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 Townsville

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