Weather in Tucson in November

Prime time. November is about as good as Tucson gets. Highs average 24.4 °C, lows 9.6 °C, and rain falls on 2 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

November ranks 2 of 12 in Tucson. Only March scores clearly higher, and the difference is small enough to be settled by price rather than weather.

Rain falls on only 2 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

The averages here are honest — no hidden extremes worth planning around. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest November day reached 34.4 °C and the coldest night fell to -3.5 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 30 mm — roughly 188% of the month's rain in one day.

This is the volatile part. November rainfall has ranged from 0 mm to 90 mm across the twenty years measured — a 90 mm spread around an average of 16 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 8.6 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 42%.

How November sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 6 °C cooler than October, with December dropping another 5.5 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip.

Daylight in November

November sits at the dark end of Tucson's year — 10.5 hours of daylight against 14.2 at midsummer, losing 0.7 hours across the month. Sightseeing days are genuinely shorter, and an itinerary built for summer will not fit.

An inland climate

With no coast nearby, the year swings a fair way — 34.5 °C between the warmest afternoons and the coldest nights, wider than any coastal city at this latitude would manage. At 759 m the air is thin enough to matter — sun that burns faster than the temperature suggests, and nights that cool off quickly. Within November itself the daily swing is 14.8 °C, so mornings and afternoons need different clothes.

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 Tucson versus nearby

If Tucson is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Phoenix is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, the same number of rain days. Sedona is the weaker option in November — 6.5 °C cooler, 2 days more rain.

So: November is effectively as good as it gets here — 2 points behind March, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.

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