Weather in Vũng Tàu in November

Shoulder season. November sits in between. You will get good days and you will lose some. You should expect rain on 17 days of the month, which is more days wet than dry.

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

Rain on 17 days, 3 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Natural fibres and a second shirt for the day. At 85% nothing dries, including you.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: 15 days top 30 °C — hot spells arrive, but they break; the day barely swings — 5.7 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest November day reached 31.9 °C and the coldest night fell to 18.8 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 37 mm — roughly 33% of the month's rain in one day.

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 220 mm against 46 mm in the driest. In a month this wet, even a tame spread is a lot of rain in absolute terms — the 111 mm average is a reasonable planning figure, not a promise.

Wind is light at 9.5 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity at 85% is the real story though — it is the number that decides how the day feels, not the 29.8 °C.

How November sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 29.6 °C in October, 29.8 here, 29.7 in December. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much. Rain is the thing that moves: December brings 10 days less of it, so pushing the dates later buys drier weather.

Daylight in November

Vũng Tàu sits close enough to the equator that daylight barely moves all year — 11.7 hours in November, against a range of just 1.2 hours across the whole calendar. Sunrise and sunset land at roughly the same time whenever you come.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 27.8 °C in November — warm enough that the water offers no relief from the heat. The sea peaks at 29.9 °C in May and bottoms out at 25.3 °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 Vũng Tàu versus nearby

If Vũng Tàu is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Ho Chi Minh City is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 3 days less rain. Cần Thơ is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day more rain.

So: November is a compromise. January is 26 points better and is what Vũng Tàu 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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