Climate averages 1991–2020
Calais weather
in November.
A cool, wet month: the 8th warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
November is a cool month in Calais: daytime highs average 10.7°C and nights cool to about 6.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 101 mm of rain on roughly 16 days, which makes November a wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 00 min on an average November day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Dunkirk (38 km away). In November its highs average 10.4°C, about as warm as Calais, with 64 mm of rain.
Among the 57 cities listed in France, Calais ranks joint 33rd of 57 for the warmest November highs and 45th of 57 for the driest November (rainfall, lowest first). The mean November high of those 57 cities is 11.6°C; Calais is 0.9°C cooler than that mean.
From November to December, average highs fall by 2.9°C to 7.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 101 mm to 94 mm.
The annual picture
November in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Calais climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7.2°C3.4°C | 3.4°C | 79 | 14.3 | 8.58 h |
| February | 7.6°C3.3°C | 3.3°C | 60 | 11.5 | 10.010 h |
| March | 9.9°C4.7°C | 4.7°C | 51 | 10.5 | 11.812 h |
| April | 12.7°C6.6°C | 6.6°C | 45 | 9.3 | 13.814 h |
| May | 15.6°C9.6°C | 9.6°C | 51 | 9.8 | 15.516 h |
| June | 18.3°C12.4°C | 12.4°C | 49 | 8.7 | 16.416 h |
| July | 20.5°C14.8°C | 14.8°C | 51 | 9.6 | 16.016 h |
| August | 20.8°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 65 | 10.0 | 14.615 h |
| September | 18.4°C13.2°C | 13.2°C | 68 | 11.2 | 12.713 h |
| October | 14.9°C10.3°C | 10.3°C | 96 | 14.3 | 10.811 h |
| November, selected | 10.7°C6.9°C | 6.9°C | 101 | 16.4 | 9.09 h |
| December | 7.8°C4.3°C | 4.3°C | 94 | 15.0 | 8.08 h |
Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain 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
- Dunkirk in NovemberFrance · 38 kmHigh 10.4°C · Low 6.1°C · 64 mm rain
- Saint Peters in NovemberUnited Kingdom · 55 kmHigh 10.4°C · Low 7.1°C · 89 mm rain
- Hastings, United Kingdom in NovemberUnited Kingdom · 90 kmHigh 10.9°C · Low 7.0°C · 120 mm rain
- Lille in NovemberFrance · 91 kmHigh 10.3°C · Low 5.1°C · 61 mm rain
- Roubaix in NovemberFrance · 97 kmHigh 10.1°C · Low 5.1°C · 65 mm rain
- Brugge in NovemberBelgium · 100 kmHigh 10.2°C · Low 6.3°C · 70 mm rain
- Kortrijk in NovemberBelgium · 100 kmHigh 10.1°C · Low 5.3°C · 65 mm rain
- Maidstone in NovemberUnited Kingdom · 100 kmHigh 10.6°C · Low 5.6°C · 63 mm rain
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 limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Calais) is explained once on the Calais year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.