Climate averages 1991–2020

Oldham weather
in November.

A cool, moderately wet month: the joint 8th warmest and the joint 6th driest of the year.

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

Average high 8.3°C Daytime mean, November

Average low 3.7°C Night-time mean, November

Rainfall 81 mm 15 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 9 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

November is a cool month in Oldham: daytime highs average 8.3°C and nights cool to about 3.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 8th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 81 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes November a moderately wet month (the joint 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 8 h 41 min on an average November day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Rochdale (9 km away). In November its highs average 8.7°C, about as warm as Oldham, with 88 mm of rain.

Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Oldham ranks joint 139th of 143 for the warmest November highs and joint 105th of 143 for the driest November (rainfall, lowest first). The mean November high of those 143 cities is 9.7°C; Oldham is 1.4°C cooler than that mean.

From November to December, average highs fall by 2.4°C to 5.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 81 mm to 89 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

Oldham climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Oldham, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	5.6°C1.1°C	1.1°C	81	14.4	8.18 h
February	6.2°C0.9°C	0.9°C	72	13.2	9.810 h
March	8.3°C1.9°C	1.9°C	70	13.2	11.812 h
April	11.1°C3.6°C	3.6°C	67	13.3	14.014 h
May	14.1°C6.5°C	6.5°C	68	13.1	15.916 h
June	16.6°C9.4°C	9.4°C	83	14.0	16.917 h
July	18.3°C11.4°C	11.4°C	84	14.9	16.516 h
August	18.0°C11.4°C	11.4°C	88	14.9	14.815 h
September	15.6°C9.3°C	9.3°C	73	12.0	12.813 h
October	12.1°C6.7°C	6.7°C	83	14.1	10.611 h
November, selected	8.3°C3.7°C	3.7°C	81	14.5	8.79 h
December	5.8°C1.5°C	1.5°C	89	14.6	7.68 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 Oldham

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 Oldham) is explained once on the Oldham year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.