Climate averages 1991–2020
Chennai weather
in November.
A hot, very wet month: the 10th warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
November is a hot month in Chennai: daytime highs average 28.5°C and nights cool to about 23.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 227 mm of rain on roughly 16 days, which makes November a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 32 min on an average November day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Tiruvottiyūr (8 km away). In November its highs average 28.4°C, about as warm as Chennai, with 233 mm of rain.
Among the 692 cities listed in India, Chennai ranks joint 276th of 692 for the warmest November highs and joint 678th of 692 for the driest November (rainfall, lowest first). The mean November high of those 692 cities is 28.2°C; Chennai is 0.3°C warmer than that mean.
From November to December, average highs fall by 1.1°C to 27.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 227 mm to 117 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
Chennai climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 27.9°C20.9°C | 20.9°C | 14 | 3.1 | 11.411 h |
| February | 30.1°C21.3°C | 21.3°C | 6.4 | 1.5 | 11.712 h |
| March | 32.7°C23.2°C | 23.2°C | 8.2 | 1.3 | 12.112 h |
| April | 34.7°C26.2°C | 26.2°C | 15 | 2.4 | 12.412 h |
| May | 36.6°C28.1°C | 28.1°C | 38 | 3.8 | 12.713 h |
| June | 35.5°C27.8°C | 27.8°C | 66 | 10.8 | 12.913 h |
| July | 34.2°C27.0°C | 27.0°C | 70 | 13.9 | 12.813 h |
| August | 33.3°C26.4°C | 26.4°C | 94 | 14.7 | 12.613 h |
| September | 32.6°C26.0°C | 26.0°C | 102 | 16.1 | 12.212 h |
| October | 30.6°C24.7°C | 24.7°C | 208 | 19.3 | 11.812 h |
| November, selected | 28.5°C23.4°C | 23.4°C | 227 | 16.4 | 11.512 h |
| December | 27.4°C22.1°C | 22.1°C | 117 | 9.1 | 11.411 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
- Tiruvottiyūr in NovemberIndia · 8 kmHigh 28.4°C · Low 23.6°C · 233 mm rain
- Neelankarai in NovemberIndia · 16 kmHigh 28.4°C · Low 23.6°C · 227 mm rain
- Avadi in NovemberIndia · 19 kmHigh 28.7°C · Low 22.8°C · 170 mm rain
- Pallāvaram in NovemberIndia · 19 kmHigh 28.4°C · Low 23.4°C · 227 mm rain
- Tambaram in NovemberIndia · 24 kmHigh 28.6°C · Low 23.2°C · 227 mm rain
- Maraimalainagar in NovemberIndia · 42 kmHigh 28.6°C · Low 22.9°C · 187 mm rain
- Arakkonam in NovemberIndia · 66 kmHigh 28.8°C · Low 21.8°C · 152 mm rain
- Kanchipuram in NovemberIndia · 69 kmHigh 28.9°C · Low 22.2°C · 170 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 Chennai) is explained once on the Chennai year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Pallāvaram, Tambaram and Neelankarai lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.