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Where to go in November

What is actually pleasant in November — by average temperature and rainy days, not by feel. The numbers are climate normals, the same for every place.

Coast

Dahab

Egypt

25°C1 rainy day

Sharm el-Sheikh

Egypt

24°C1 rainy day

Pleasant, and off season

The weather holds but the crowds and prices have dropped — the month where the same destination costs less than at peak.

Cairo

Egypt

21°C0 rainy days

Luxor

Egypt

23°C0 rainy days

Tozeur

Tunisia

18°C2 rainy days

Merzouga

Morocco

17°C1 rainy day

Swakopmund

Namibia

17°C1 rainy day

Dahab

Egypt

25°C1 rainy day

Temperatures and rainy days are climate normals from `content_geo.py`, the same for all 214 places. “Pleasant” means: a city at 12–26°C with at most 10 rainy days, coast above 24°C with at most 6, mountains 8–24°C with at most 10.

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Flickr - Gaspa - Cairo, Bazar el-Khalili — Francesco Gasparetti from Senigallia, Italy, CC BY 2.0
Balloon over Luxor - Egypt — Marcosleal, CC BY-SA 3.0
Buenos Aires - La Boca - Caminito - 200807i — Luis Argerich from Buenos Aires, Argentina, CC BY 2.0
Maroc Marrakech Jemaa-el-Fna Luc Viatour — No machine-readable author provided. Lviatour assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0
Plaza de Armas de Santiago 2017 b — WeHaKa, CC BY-SA 4.0
Hanoi Old Quarter, 9 March 2019-2 — Alexey Komarov, CC BY-SA 4.0
Windhuk Independence Avenue 1 — Zairon, CC BY-SA 4.0
Amfiteatre d'El Djem - interior — Josep Renalias Lohen11, CC BY 4.0
Medina of Kairouan 17042022 004 — Yamen, CC BY-SA 4.0
Bardo Museum(102) — Sinda BF, CC BY-SA 4.0
Museu de les Ciències Príncipe Felipe, Valencia, August 2026 — Esniom, CC BY-SA 4.0
Catania-etna — Dror Feitelson, CC BY-SA 4.0
Plaza de Espana, Seville — Dokkolo, CC BY-SA 4.0
Chouara Tannery - 154 - Marokko Handybilder 2018 - Fes (27347707917) — Uwe Brodrecht, CC BY-SA 2.0
Acropolis Parthenon Athens Greece — Jebulon, CC0
Miradouro das Portas do Sol Lisbon Alfama overview pano — Dicklyon, CC BY-SA 4.0
The library of Celsus, Ephesus — Slyronit, CC BY-SA 4.0
Yu Gardens 20090724-03 — Hans A. Rosbach, CC BY-SA 3.0
Capela dos Ossos - Apr 2011 — Ken & Nyetta, CC BY 2.0
La Sagrada Familia Barcelona — Peter_Glyn, CC0
Hall - Wenshu Monastery - Chengdu, China - DSC05060 — Daderot, CC0
Blue Mosque, Istanbul Turkey — Joshua Doubek, CC BY-SA 3.0
Dotonbori, Osaka, at night, November 2016 — Martin Falbisoner, CC BY-SA 4.0
Tokyo Shibuya Scramble Crossing 2018-10-09 — Benh LIEU SONG (Flickr), CC BY-SA 2.0
The White Tower of Thessaloniki - 2 — Annatsach, CC BY-SA 4.0
Alhambra - Granada 1 — Jim Gordon, CC BY 2.0
Dahab - The blue hole - panoramio — Francesco Lo Bello, CC BY 3.0
Arrecife de coral, parque nacional Ras Muhammad, Egipto, 2022-03-26, DD 170 — Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0
Géiseres del Tatio, Atacama, Chile, 2016-02-01, DD 51-53 HDR — Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0
Tunisia-3901 - Chott el Jerid (8032314619) — Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0
Above Moroccan Dunes — Patricia Ilizaliturri, CC BY-SA 4.0
Swakopmund Woermannhaus 1 — Zairon, CC BY-SA 4.0
Cape Cross Seal Colony, RTW 2012 (8395938208) — Ana Raquel S. Hernandes from Sao Paulo, Brazil, CC BY-SA 2.0
Hiking in the Fish River Canyon - panoramio — Roelf, CC BY-SA 3.0
Madeira-Levada do Risco (path PR6.1)-Casa do Rabacal-hiking trail-02ASD — Asurnipal, CC BY-SA 4.0
Aconcagua (Mendoza) 2022-11 (4) — Mauricio V. Genta, CC BY-SA 4.0
Templo de Nefertari, Abu Simbel, Egipto, 2022-04-02, DD 101 — Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0
Philae Temple Complex, Agilkia Island, Aswan, AG, EGY (48026937717) — Warren LeMay from Cullowhee, NC, United States, CC0
Roussanou Monastery, Meteora — Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0
Sung Sot Cave, Ha Long Bay, Vietnam, 20240128 1549 3836 — Jakub Hałun, CC BY 4.0
Aït Benhaddou view from above — Elena Tatiana Chis, CC BY-SA 4.0
Pamukkale Hierapolis Travertine pools — Pvasiliadis, CC BY-SA 3.0
Chefchaouen, Morocco (Unsplash) — Azer Koçulu azer, CC0
003 Nara deer in Japan - deer of Nara Park under autumn leaves — Marek Ślusarczyk (Tupungato) Photo portfolio, CC BY 3.0
Centro cívico de San Carlos de Bariloche en 2022 — César Pérez , CC BY-SA 4.0
Village of Gordes — Einaz80, CC BY-SA 4.0
Panoramic view of Como Lake (Lago di Como) and Bellagio town, seen from the mountain Monte Grona - Plesio (Como) 2015-10-25 — Mænsard vokser, CC BY-SA 4.0
OLD HOUSE IN THE NATIONAL REVIVAL STYLE, VELIKO TURNOVOI — JERRYE AND ROY KLOTZ MD, CC BY-SA 3.0

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