Climate averages 1991–2020
Köln weather
in November.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 9th warmest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
November is a cool month in Köln: daytime highs average 9.1°C and nights cool to about 4.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 85 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes November a moderately wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 00 min on an average November day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Leverkusen (11 km away). In November its highs average 9.2°C, about as warm as Köln, with 85 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Köln ranks joint 17th of 120 for the warmest November highs and joint 110th of 120 for the driest November (rainfall, lowest first). The mean November high of those 120 cities is 8.4°C; Köln is 0.8°C warmer than that mean.
From November to December, average highs fall by 3.3°C to 5.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 85 mm to 101 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
Köln climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.2°C0.5°C | 0.5°C | 90 | 14.8 | 8.58 h |
| February | 6.4°C0.5°C | 0.5°C | 74 | 12.8 | 10.010 h |
| March | 10.0°C2.3°C | 2.3°C | 73 | 13.7 | 11.812 h |
| April | 14.2°C5.1°C | 5.1°C | 52 | 10.8 | 13.814 h |
| May | 18.0°C9.1°C | 9.1°C | 62 | 11.9 | 15.516 h |
| June | 20.9°C12.3°C | 12.3°C | 70 | 12.2 | 16.416 h |
| July | 23.0°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 80 | 13.1 | 16.016 h |
| August | 22.9°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 80 | 11.9 | 14.615 h |
| September | 19.1°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 71 | 11.3 | 12.713 h |
| October | 14.3°C8.1°C | 8.1°C | 83 | 12.8 | 10.811 h |
| November, selected | 9.1°C4.3°C | 4.3°C | 85 | 14.2 | 9.09 h |
| December | 5.8°C1.5°C | 1.5°C | 101 | 16.0 | 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
- Leverkusen in NovemberGermany · 11 kmHigh 9.2°C · Low 4.5°C · 85 mm rain
- Bergisch Gladbach in NovemberGermany · 14 kmHigh 8.9°C · Low 4.3°C · 97 mm rain
- Troisdorf in NovemberGermany · 20 kmHigh 9.2°C · Low 4.5°C · 76 mm rain
- Bonn in NovemberGermany · 24 kmHigh 9.3°C · Low 4.6°C · 66 mm rain
- Solingen in NovemberGermany · 28 kmHigh 8.2°C · Low 3.8°C · 88 mm rain
- Remscheid in NovemberGermany · 32 kmHigh 7.5°C · Low 3.1°C · 92 mm rain
- Düsseldorf in NovemberGermany · 34 kmHigh 9.3°C · Low 4.5°C · 76 mm rain
- Neuss in NovemberGermany · 35 kmHigh 9.4°C · Low 4.5°C · 76 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 Köln) is explained once on the Köln year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Leverkusen lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.