Climate averages 1991–2020

Burnley weather
in November.

A cool, wet month: the joint 8th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 8.6°C Daytime mean, November

Average low 3.8°C Night-time mean, November

Rainfall 103 mm 16 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 9 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

November is a cool month in Burnley: daytime highs average 8.6°C and nights cool to about 3.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 8th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 103 mm of rain on roughly 16 days, which makes November a wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 8 h 38 min on an average November day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Blackburn (17 km away). In November its highs average 8.7°C, about as warm as Burnley, with 107 mm of rain.

Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Burnley ranks 134th of 143 for the warmest November highs and 127th of 143 for the driest November (rainfall, lowest first). The mean November high of those 143 cities is 9.7°C; Burnley is 1.1°C cooler than that mean.

From November to December, average highs fall by 2.4°C to 6.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 103 mm to 118 mm.

The annual picture

November in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Burnley climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Burnley, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	5.9°C1.3°C	1.3°C	106	15.9	8.08 h
February	6.5°C1.1°C	1.1°C	95	14.1	9.710 h
March	8.6°C2.0°C	2.0°C	88	13.9	11.812 h
April	11.3°C3.7°C	3.7°C	77	13.6	14.014 h
May	14.3°C6.6°C	6.6°C	82	13.6	15.916 h
June	16.8°C9.6°C	9.6°C	95	14.6	17.017 h
July	18.5°C11.5°C	11.5°C	101	16.1	16.517 h
August	18.1°C11.5°C	11.5°C	106	16.0	14.815 h
September	15.9°C9.4°C	9.4°C	89	13.1	12.813 h
October	12.4°C6.8°C	6.8°C	104	15.1	10.611 h
November, selected	8.6°C3.8°C	3.8°C	103	15.9	8.69 h
December	6.2°C1.6°C	1.6°C	118	15.6	7.58 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

Distance from Burnley

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Burnley) is explained once on the Burnley year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.