Climate averages 1991–2020
Nairobi weather
in November.
A warm, moderately wet month: the joint 8th warmest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
November is a warm month in Nairobi: daytime highs average 23.2°C and nights cool to about 14.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 83 mm of rain on roughly 18 days, which makes November a moderately wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 10 min on an average November day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Karuri (Kiambu County), Kenya (14 km away). In November its highs average 21.3°C, 1.9°C cooler than Nairobi, with 83 mm of rain.
Among the 37 cities listed in Kenya, Nairobi ranks joint 22nd of 37 for the warmest November highs and joint 11th of 37 for the driest November (rainfall, lowest first). The mean November high of those 37 cities is 25.3°C; Nairobi is 2.0°C cooler than that mean.
From November to December, average highs rise by 0.7°C to 24.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 83 mm to 47 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
Nairobi climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 25.6°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 35 | 6.3 | 12.212 h |
| February | 26.8°C14.9°C | 14.9°C | 30 | 4.6 | 12.212 h |
| March | 26.5°C15.6°C | 15.6°C | 57 | 10.3 | 12.112 h |
| April | 24.4°C15.8°C | 15.8°C | 114 | 19.4 | 12.112 h |
| May | 23.2°C14.9°C | 14.9°C | 92 | 16.0 | 12.112 h |
| June | 22.2°C13.6°C | 13.6°C | 42 | 7.9 | 12.012 h |
| July | 21.7°C12.4°C | 12.4°C | 13 | 3.2 | 12.112 h |
| August | 22.3°C12.6°C | 12.6°C | 21 | 3.9 | 12.112 h |
| September | 24.2°C13.2°C | 13.2°C | 16 | 3.3 | 12.112 h |
| October | 25.0°C14.5°C | 14.5°C | 40 | 9.3 | 12.112 h |
| November, selected | 23.2°C14.8°C | 14.8°C | 83 | 17.6 | 12.212 h |
| December | 24.0°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 47 | 10.2 | 12.212 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
- Karuri (Kiambu County), Kenya in NovemberKenya · 14 kmHigh 21.3°C · Low 13.3°C · 83 mm rain
- Ongata Rongai in NovemberKenya · 14 kmHigh 22.8°C · Low 14.7°C · 75 mm rain
- Kikuyu in NovemberKenya · 18 kmHigh 21.2°C · Low 12.9°C · 83 mm rain
- Ngong in NovemberKenya · 18 kmHigh 22.7°C · Low 14.0°C · 83 mm rain
- Mlolongo in NovemberKenya · 19 kmHigh 23.2°C · Low 15.1°C · 114 mm rain
- Ruiru in NovemberKenya · 22 kmHigh 22.9°C · Low 14.8°C · 123 mm rain
- Kitengela in NovemberKenya · 27 kmHigh 23.4°C · Low 15.6°C · 114 mm rain
- Limuru in NovemberKenya · 27 kmHigh 20.1°C · Low 11.4°C · 100 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 Nairobi) is explained once on the Nairobi year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Kikuyu, Karuri (Kiambu County), Kenya and Ngong lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.