Climate averages 1991–2020
Basel weather
in November.
A cool, wet month: the 9th warmest and the 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
November is a cool month in Basel: daytime highs average 9.4°C and nights cool to about 2.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 94 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes November a wet month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 22 min on an average November day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Mulhouse (28 km away). In November its highs average 9.0°C, about as warm as Basel, with 81 mm of rain.
Among the 8 cities listed in Switzerland, Basel ranks 2nd of 8 for the warmest November highs and 3rd of 8 for the driest November (rainfall, lowest first). The mean November high of those 8 cities is 8.8°C; Basel is 0.6°C warmer than that mean.
From November to December, average highs fall by 3.6°C to 5.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 94 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
Basel climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.4°C-1.7°C | -1.7°C | 80 | 13.5 | 8.99 h |
| February | 6.9°C-1.5°C | -1.5°C | 73 | 11.7 | 10.210 h |
| March | 11.1°C1.4°C | 1.4°C | 83 | 13.5 | 11.912 h |
| April | 15.0°C4.6°C | 4.6°C | 90 | 14.1 | 13.614 h |
| May | 18.7°C8.9°C | 8.9°C | 129 | 16.8 | 15.115 h |
| June | 22.3°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 118 | 15.8 | 15.916 h |
| July | 24.5°C14.8°C | 14.8°C | 121 | 15.4 | 15.616 h |
| August | 24.5°C14.9°C | 14.9°C | 125 | 15.1 | 14.314 h |
| September | 20.1°C10.8°C | 10.8°C | 95 | 12.6 | 12.613 h |
| October | 15.4°C6.7°C | 6.7°C | 97 | 13.2 | 10.911 h |
| November, selected | 9.4°C2.1°C | 2.1°C | 94 | 13.0 | 9.49 h |
| December | 5.8°C-0.8°C | -0.8°C | 101 | 14.1 | 8.59 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
- Mulhouse in NovemberFrance · 28 kmHigh 9.0°C · Low 2.5°C · 81 mm rain
- Freiburg in NovemberGermany · 53 kmHigh 9.5°C · Low 3.2°C · 89 mm rain
- Bern in NovemberSwitzerland · 69 kmHigh 8.1°C · Low 1.0°C · 90 mm rain
- Zürich in NovemberSwitzerland · 76 kmHigh 8.8°C · Low 2.6°C · 106 mm rain
- Luzern in NovemberSwitzerland · 79 kmHigh 9.0°C · Low 3.2°C · 134 mm rain
- Winterthur in NovemberSwitzerland · 87 kmHigh 8.6°C · Low 2.2°C · 87 mm rain
- Villingen-Schwenningen in NovemberGermany · 89 kmHigh 6.7°C · Low 0.4°C · 83 mm rain
- Strasbourg in NovemberFrance · 115 kmHigh 9.4°C · Low 3.2°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 Basel) is explained once on the Basel year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.