Climate averages 1991–2020
Tacoma weather
in November.
A cool, very wet month: the 9th warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
November is a cool month in Tacoma: daytime highs average 9.7°C and nights cool to about 4.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 184 mm of rain on roughly 17 days, which makes November a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 24 min on an average November day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Federal Way (13 km away). In November its highs average 9.2°C, about as warm as Tacoma, with 206 mm of rain.
Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, Tacoma ranks joint 384th of 498 for the warmest November highs and 486th of 498 for the driest November (rainfall, lowest first). The mean November high of those 498 cities is 15.2°C; Tacoma is 5.6°C cooler than that mean.
From November to December, average highs fall by 3.0°C to 6.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 184 mm to 174 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
Tacoma climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7.3°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 165 | 17.1 | 8.99 h |
| February | 8.5°C1.6°C | 1.6°C | 115 | 13.5 | 10.210 h |
| March | 10.7°C2.9°C | 2.9°C | 132 | 16.5 | 11.912 h |
| April | 13.4°C4.9°C | 4.9°C | 99 | 13.5 | 13.614 h |
| May | 17.2°C8.4°C | 8.4°C | 61 | 10.1 | 15.115 h |
| June | 19.8°C11.1°C | 11.1°C | 40 | 7.0 | 15.916 h |
| July | 24.0°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 16 | 2.9 | 15.516 h |
| August | 24.3°C14.2°C | 14.2°C | 23 | 4.0 | 14.214 h |
| September | 20.8°C11.9°C | 11.9°C | 50 | 7.1 | 12.613 h |
| October | 14.7°C7.9°C | 7.9°C | 112 | 12.6 | 10.911 h |
| November, selected | 9.7°C4.2°C | 4.2°C | 184 | 17.0 | 9.49 h |
| December | 6.7°C1.8°C | 1.8°C | 174 | 16.7 | 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
- Federal Way in NovemberUnited States · 13 kmHigh 9.2°C · Low 3.5°C · 206 mm rain
- Auburn in NovemberUnited States · 17 kmHigh 9.9°C · Low 3.8°C · 206 mm rain
- Kent in NovemberUnited States · 21 kmHigh 10.1°C · Low 4.2°C · 194 mm rain
- Renton in NovemberUnited States · 31 kmHigh 10.1°C · Low 4.2°C · 194 mm rain
- Seattle in NovemberUnited States · 40 kmHigh 9.6°C · Low 4.0°C · 194 mm rain
- Bellevue in NovemberUnited States · 44 kmHigh 9.8°C · Low 4.1°C · 194 mm rain
- Kirkland in NovemberUnited States · 51 kmHigh 9.4°C · Low 4.0°C · 198 mm rain
- Everett in NovemberUnited States · 83 kmHigh 9.3°C · Low 4.0°C · 255 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 Tacoma) is explained once on the Tacoma year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.