Climate averages 1991–2020

Sault Ste. Marie weather
in November.

A cold, moderately wet month: the 8th warmest and the joint 5th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 4.4°C Daytime mean, November
Average low -0.8°C Night-time mean, November
Rainfall 67 mm 11 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 9 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Sault Ste. Marie · average highYear overview

November is a cold month in Sault Ste. Marie: daytime highs average 4.4°C and nights cool to about -0.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 67 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes November a moderately wet month (the joint 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 28 min on an average November day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Greater Sudbury (256 km away). In November its highs average 3.3°C, 1.1°C cooler than Sault Ste. Marie, with 73 mm of rain.

Among the 86 cities listed in Canada, Sault Ste. Marie ranks joint 69th of 86 for the warmest November highs and joint 14th of 86 for the driest November (rainfall, lowest first). The mean November high of those 86 cities is 5.7°C; Sault Ste. Marie is 1.3°C cooler than that mean.

From November to December, average highs fall by 6.2°C to -1.7°C, and monthly precipitation falls from 67 mm to 56 mm.

The annual picture

November in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. -20-15-10-5051015202530 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly precipitation

Average total · mm
Average monthly precipitation totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 1500

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Sault Ste. Marie climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Sault Ste. Marie, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowPrecipitation mm/monthWet days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January -6.5°C-13.1°C-13.1°C4610.29.09 h
February -6.0°C-12.6°C-12.6°C367.610.310 h
March -0.5°C-7.6°C-7.6°C468.311.912 h
April 7.0°C-1.4°C-1.4°C6710.213.514 h
May 15.4°C5.6°C5.6°C7210.015.015 h
June 21.0°C11.8°C11.8°C819.815.816 h
July 23.3°C15.4°C15.4°C10111.415.415 h
August 22.8°C15.5°C15.5°C9510.914.214 h
September 18.8°C12.0°C12.0°C10812.112.613 h
October 11.5°C5.5°C5.5°C10113.710.911 h
November, selected 4.4°C-0.8°C-0.8°C6711.29.59 h
December -1.7°C-7.7°C-7.7°C5611.18.79 h

Precipitation (rain or snow, as water) is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A wet day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.

Compare places

November in nearby cities

Distance from Sault Ste. Marie

Read the numbers correctly

Climate, not a promise.

These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.

Sources, method and limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Sault Ste. Marie) is explained once on the Sault Ste. Marie year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.