Weather in Wuzhong in November

A hard month. November asks something of you. Go in knowing what. Highs sit at 9.9 °C and the day is short; this is an indoors-with-excursions month, not an outdoors-all-day one.

November ranks 9 of 12 in Wuzhong: past the worst of the year but short of April, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain falls on only 1 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. Layers, and a genuinely waterproof outer — at 9.9 °C the difference between a good day and a miserable one is entirely down to what you are wearing.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: 24 nights drop below freezing, so anything left outside stays frozen. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest November day reached 22.2 °C and the coldest night fell to -13.9 °C.

November is dependably dry, and that reliability is the point: across the twenty years measured, the wettest November on record still only managed 28 mm, and the driest managed 0 mm. There is no meaningful variability to plan around, which makes this one of the few months anywhere that you can build a fixed outdoor itinerary against without a fallback. The wettest single day in twenty years of Novembers brought 13 mm. Rain simply is not the variable that decides this trip — heat, crowds and cost are.

Wind is light at 8.4 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 53%.

How November sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 8.8 °C cooler than October, with December dropping another 8.1 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip.

Daylight in November

November sits at the dark end of Wuzhong's year — 10.2 hours of daylight against 14.8 at midsummer, losing 0.9 hours across the month. Sightseeing days are genuinely shorter, and an itinerary built for summer will not fit.

An inland climate

Wuzhong has no sea to moderate it, and it shows: 43.9 °C separates the hottest afternoon of the year from the coldest night. That is a genuinely continental range, and it means summer and winter here are barely the same place. At 1133 m the air is thin enough to matter — sun that burns faster than the temperature suggests, and nights that cool off quickly.

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 Wuzhong versus nearby

If Wuzhong is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Xi’an is a better bet in November — 5.1 °C warmer, 4 days more rain. Chengdu is a better bet in November — 7.8 °C warmer, 6 days more rain.

So: November is a compromise. April is 47 points better and is what Wuzhong 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 Wuzhong

See all twelve months in Wuzhong, or where else to go in November.