Climate averages 1991–2020
Southampton weather
in November.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 8th warmest and one of the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
November is a cool month in Southampton: daytime highs average 10.8°C and nights cool to about 6.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 75 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes November a moderately wet month (one of the wettest months of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 00 min on an average November day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Portsmouth (25 km away). In November its highs average 11.0°C, about as warm as Southampton, with 99 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Southampton ranks joint 9th of 143 for the warmest November highs and 102nd of 143 for the driest November (rainfall, lowest first). The mean November high of those 143 cities is 9.7°C; Southampton is 1.1°C warmer than that mean.
From November to December, average highs fall by 2.5°C to 8.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 75 mm to 71 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
Southampton climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7.8°C3.5°C | 3.5°C | 67 | 11.5 | 8.58 h |
| February | 8.0°C3.2°C | 3.2°C | 51 | 10.2 | 10.010 h |
| March | 10.2°C4.3°C | 4.3°C | 48 | 10.1 | 11.812 h |
| April | 12.8°C5.9°C | 5.9°C | 56 | 11.1 | 13.814 h |
| May | 15.9°C8.8°C | 8.8°C | 57 | 10.0 | 15.515 h |
| June | 18.6°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 54 | 10.0 | 16.416 h |
| July | 20.7°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 53 | 10.0 | 16.016 h |
| August | 20.4°C13.9°C | 13.9°C | 65 | 10.4 | 14.615 h |
| September | 18.1°C12.0°C | 12.0°C | 54 | 9.3 | 12.713 h |
| October | 14.5°C9.6°C | 9.6°C | 75 | 11.6 | 10.811 h |
| November, selected | 10.8°C6.4°C | 6.4°C | 75 | 11.7 | 9.09 h |
| December | 8.3°C4.2°C | 4.2°C | 71 | 11.4 | 8.08 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
- Portsmouth in NovemberUnited Kingdom · 25 kmHigh 11.0°C · Low 6.5°C · 99 mm rain
- Bournemouth in NovemberUnited Kingdom · 39 kmHigh 11.1°C · Low 7.5°C · 84 mm rain
- Basingstoke in NovemberUnited Kingdom · 46 kmHigh 10.1°C · Low 4.9°C · 68 mm rain
- Poole in NovemberUnited Kingdom · 46 kmHigh 11.2°C · Low 7.6°C · 84 mm rain
- Reading in NovemberUnited Kingdom · 68 kmHigh 10.2°C · Low 5.0°C · 64 mm rain
- Guildford in NovemberUnited Kingdom · 69 kmHigh 10.5°C · Low 5.1°C · 66 mm rain
- Bracknell in NovemberUnited Kingdom · 73 kmHigh 10.0°C · Low 4.7°C · 64 mm rain
- Worthing in NovemberUnited Kingdom · 73 kmHigh 11.0°C · Low 7.1°C · 111 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 Southampton) is explained once on the Southampton year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.