Climate averages 1991–2020
Gelsenkirchen weather
in November.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 9th warmest and the joint 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
November is a cool month in Gelsenkirchen: daytime highs average 9.1°C and nights cool to about 4.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 71 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes November a moderately wet month (the joint 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 8 h 56 min on an average November day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Essen (8 km away). In November its highs average 8.9°C, about as warm as Gelsenkirchen, with 71 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Gelsenkirchen ranks joint 17th of 120 for the warmest November highs and joint 86th of 120 for the driest November (rainfall, lowest first). The mean November high of those 120 cities is 8.4°C; Gelsenkirchen is 0.8°C warmer than that mean.
From November to December, average highs fall by 3.4°C to 5.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 71 mm to 84 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
Gelsenkirchen climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.1°C0.5°C | 0.5°C | 78 | 13.9 | 8.48 h |
| February | 6.4°C0.6°C | 0.6°C | 64 | 12.0 | 9.910 h |
| March | 10.0°C2.5°C | 2.5°C | 65 | 12.8 | 11.812 h |
| April | 14.3°C5.3°C | 5.3°C | 51 | 10.8 | 13.814 h |
| May | 18.1°C9.3°C | 9.3°C | 62 | 11.5 | 15.616 h |
| June | 21.0°C12.4°C | 12.4°C | 70 | 12.0 | 16.517 h |
| July | 23.0°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 82 | 13.6 | 16.116 h |
| August | 22.8°C14.5°C | 14.5°C | 81 | 12.5 | 14.615 h |
| September | 19.0°C11.6°C | 11.6°C | 69 | 11.0 | 12.713 h |
| October | 14.2°C8.2°C | 8.2°C | 71 | 12.0 | 10.711 h |
| November, selected | 9.1°C4.4°C | 4.4°C | 71 | 13.1 | 8.99 h |
| December | 5.7°C1.5°C | 1.5°C | 84 | 14.1 | 7.98 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
- Essen in NovemberGermany · 8 kmHigh 8.9°C · Low 4.2°C · 71 mm rain
- Bochum in NovemberGermany · 9 kmHigh 8.8°C · Low 4.1°C · 75 mm rain
- Gladbeck in NovemberGermany · 11 kmHigh 9.0°C · Low 4.3°C · 71 mm rain
- Recklinghausen in NovemberGermany · 14 kmHigh 8.9°C · Low 4.2°C · 75 mm rain
- Castrop-Rauxel in NovemberGermany · 16 kmHigh 8.9°C · Low 4.2°C · 75 mm rain
- Oberhausen in NovemberGermany · 16 kmHigh 9.2°C · Low 4.5°C · 67 mm rain
- Marl in NovemberGermany · 17 kmHigh 8.9°C · Low 4.3°C · 67 mm rain
- Mülheim in NovemberGermany · 17 kmHigh 9.2°C · Low 4.8°C · 71 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 Gelsenkirchen) is explained once on the Gelsenkirchen year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Essen, Mülheim and Gladbeck lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.