Climate averages 1991–2020

Reading weather
in November.

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

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

Average high 10.2°C Daytime mean, November

Average low 5.0°C Night-time mean, November

Rainfall 64 mm 11 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 9 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

November is a cool month in Reading: daytime highs average 10.2°C and nights cool to about 5.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 8th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 64 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes November a moderately wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 8 h 56 min on an average November day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Bracknell (16 km away). In November its highs average 10.0°C, about as warm as Reading, with 64 mm of rain.

Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Reading ranks joint 35th of 143 for the warmest November highs and joint 55th of 143 for the driest November (rainfall, lowest first). The mean November high of those 143 cities is 9.7°C; Reading is 0.4°C warmer than that mean.

From November to December, average highs fall by 2.6°C to 7.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 64 mm to 59 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

Reading climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Reading, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	7.2°C2.3°C	2.3°C	55	11.0	8.48 h
February	7.7°C2.1°C	2.1°C	44	9.3	9.910 h
March	10.2°C3.3°C	3.3°C	44	10.1	11.812 h
April	13.1°C5.0°C	5.0°C	52	10.9	13.814 h
May	16.2°C8.0°C	8.0°C	57	10.6	15.616 h
June	19.1°C11.0°C	11.0°C	54	9.7	16.517 h
July	21.3°C13.2°C	13.2°C	56	10.6	16.116 h
August	20.9°C13.1°C	13.1°C	61	10.3	14.615 h
September	18.2°C10.9°C	10.9°C	51	8.8	12.713 h
October	14.3°C8.3°C	8.3°C	62	11.4	10.711 h
November, selected	10.2°C5.0°C	5.0°C	64	11.4	8.99 h
December	7.5°C2.9°C	2.9°C	59	10.8	7.98 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 Reading

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