Essaouira in November: weather, wind and sea

Temperatures in November

In November, the mean high is 20.5 °C and the mean low 14.4 °C, a gap of 6.1 °C between afternoon and night. That is almost exactly the year’s average high (20.6 °C). Nights run 0.7 °C cooler than the year’s average low (15.1 °C). The afternoons are cooling: 22.2 °C in October, 19.4 °C in December. A light jumper is enough in the evening, more so near the water.

Wind in November

The wind passes 15 knots on about 9 days out of 30, against 12 days in an average month. October has 8 days, December 8. It blows mostly from the north-east, and its daily peak averages 12 knots. These figures are our own count over thirty years of modelled weather data (the ERA5 reanalysis, then the ECMWF’s IFS model from 2017), 1991 to 2020. Out of season for kitesurfing: a short stay can miss the wind entirely.

Rain and sunshine in November

Expect about 5 days with 1 mm of rain or more, 54.5 mm in all. That is 18% of the year’s 299.7 mm. October gets 33.3 mm, December 55.7 mm.

The sun shines for 6.6 hours a day on average, from the station’s 1961–1990 records. That is 63% of the 11 hours or so the sun is up. The year averages 8.2 hours a day.