Climate averages 1991–2020
Bern weather
in November.
A cool, wet month: the 9th warmest and the joint 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
November is a cool month in Bern: daytime highs average 8.1°C and nights cool to about 1.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 90 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes November a wet month (the joint 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 25 min on an average November day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Luzern (66 km away). In November its highs average 9.0°C, 0.9°C warmer than Bern, with 134 mm of rain.
Among the 8 cities listed in Switzerland, Bern ranks 7th of 8 for the warmest November highs and 2nd of 8 for the driest November (rainfall, lowest first). The mean November high of those 8 cities is 8.8°C; Bern is 0.7°C cooler than that mean.
From November to December, average highs fall by 3.7°C to 4.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 90 mm to 93 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
Bern climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.8°C-3.3°C | -3.3°C | 80 | 12.8 | 9.09 h |
| February | 4.9°C-3.3°C | -3.3°C | 73 | 11.7 | 10.310 h |
| March | 8.8°C-0.2°C | -0.2°C | 84 | 13.3 | 11.912 h |
| April | 12.5°C2.7°C | 2.7°C | 90 | 13.6 | 13.614 h |
| May | 16.3°C7.0°C | 7.0°C | 117 | 15.4 | 15.015 h |
| June | 19.8°C10.8°C | 10.8°C | 106 | 14.7 | 15.816 h |
| July | 21.8°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 104 | 13.5 | 15.515 h |
| August | 21.8°C13.1°C | 13.1°C | 101 | 13.3 | 14.214 h |
| September | 17.7°C9.6°C | 9.6°C | 88 | 11.8 | 12.613 h |
| October | 13.9°C5.8°C | 5.8°C | 84 | 11.9 | 10.911 h |
| November, selected | 8.1°C1.0°C | 1.0°C | 90 | 12.6 | 9.49 h |
| December | 4.4°C-2.1°C | -2.1°C | 93 | 13.5 | 8.69 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
- Luzern in NovemberSwitzerland · 66 kmHigh 9.0°C · Low 3.2°C · 134 mm rain
- Basel in NovemberSwitzerland · 69 kmHigh 9.4°C · Low 2.1°C · 94 mm rain
- Lausanne in NovemberSwitzerland · 79 kmHigh 9.3°C · Low 4.7°C · 116 mm rain
- Mulhouse in NovemberFrance · 90 kmHigh 9.0°C · Low 2.5°C · 81 mm rain
- Zürich in NovemberSwitzerland · 95 kmHigh 8.8°C · Low 2.6°C · 106 mm rain
- Besançon in NovemberFrance · 113 kmHigh 10.0°C · Low 3.9°C · 115 mm rain
- Winterthur in NovemberSwitzerland · 115 kmHigh 8.6°C · Low 2.2°C · 87 mm rain
- Freiburg in NovemberGermany · 120 kmHigh 9.5°C · Low 3.2°C · 89 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 Bern) is explained once on the Bern year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.