Coolcation

Where it's cool in November

A coolcation, on this site, is anywhere with a mean daily high at or below 18°C. November gives you 74 of the 295 curated destinations with a ten-year record this month (of 497 curated in total). The ranking below is by low day-to-day swing, not by which is coldest.

November coolcation options on the ten-year record: 74 of 295 curated destinations with ten-year daily records sit at or below 18°C mean daily high (of 497 curated in total; the remainder do not yet have a full ten-year series for November). The list below ranks them by day-to-day steadiness, not raw temperature.

The coldest reading in the dataset for November is Fairbanks at -10°. The warmest still inside the cool band is San Carlos de Bariloche at 18°. Pack layers, not a coat.

Coolcation is defined here as mean daily high at or below 18°C. That threshold is a firm number, chosen for room-temperature comfort with a light layer. Nothing on this page describes forecasts. The averages are climate.

Curated by Hugo · Updated July 2026
The bowl of La Paz seen from El Alto in clear high-altitude light
La Paz, Bolivia
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Yellow trams climbing the tiled streets of Lisbon's Alfama
Lisbon, Portugal
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Mont Saint-Michel across the causeway under a low winter sun
Mont Saint-Michel, France
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Top 10 destinations in November

  1. 1.La Paz, Bolivia

    17°

    Averages 17° in November with swings barely 2° either side of 17° and 10 rain days on the ten-year record. Cool without being wintry. Layers, not a coat.

  2. 2.Colca Canyon, Peru

    16°

    Averages 16° in November with swings barely 2° either side of 16° and 12 rain days on the ten-year record. Cool without being wintry. Layers, not a coat.

  3. 3.San Francisco, United States

    18°

    Averages 18° in November with a 6° day-to-day spread around 18° and 6 rain days on the ten-year record. Cool without being wintry. Layers, not a coat.

  4. 4.Lisbon, Portugal

    18°

    Averages 18° in November with a 6° day-to-day spread around 18° and 12 rain days on the ten-year record. Cool without being wintry. Layers, not a coat.

  5. 5.Montserrat, Spain

    18°

    Averages 18° in November with a 7° day-to-day spread around 18° and 6 rain days on the ten-year record. Cool without being wintry. Layers, not a coat.

  6. 6.Elba, Italy

    16°

    Averages 16° in November with a 7° day-to-day spread around 16° and 11 rain days on the ten-year record. Cool without being wintry. Layers, not a coat.

  7. 7.Dublin, Ireland

    10°

    Averages 10° in November with a 7° day-to-day spread around 10° and 12 rain days on the ten-year record. Cool without being wintry. Layers, not a coat.

  8. 8.Goes, Netherlands

    11°

    Averages 11° in November with a 7° day-to-day spread around 11° and 12 rain days on the ten-year record. Cool without being wintry. Layers, not a coat.

  9. 9.Mont Saint-Michel, France

    12°

    Averages 12° in November with a 7° day-to-day spread around 12° and 13 rain days on the ten-year record. Cool without being wintry. Layers, not a coat.

  10. 10.Ketchikan, United States

    7°

    Averages 7° in November with a 7° day-to-day spread around 7° and 21 rain days on the ten-year record. Cool without being wintry. Layers, not a coat.

Average temperatures by destination

Showing 80 of 80 destinations

DestinationCountryAvg high
FairbanksUnited States-10°
Kanas LakeChina-8°
ChurchillCanada-7°
IqaluitCanada-6°
SvalbardSvalbard and Jan Mayen-6°
IlulissatGreenland-3°
LongyearbyenNorway-3°
Abisko National ParkSweden-2°
AnchorageUnited States-2°
AstanaKazakhstan-2°
Lake BaikalRussia-1°
NuukGreenland-1°
HarbinChina0°
Mount PaektuNorth Korea0°
High TatrasSlovakia1°
KazanRussia1°
Kizhi IslandRussia1°
Yellowstone National ParkUnited States1°
JasperCanada2°
MoscowRussia2°
QaqortoqGreenland2°
TromsøNorway2°
Valley of Geysers, KamchatkaRussia2°
Bran CastleRomania3°
TadoussacCanada3°
BamiyanAfghanistan4°
LehIndia4°
Quebec CityCanada4°
VilniusLithuania4°
VladivostokRussia4°
WhistlerCanada4°
Charyn CanyonKazakhstan5°
Chernobyl Exclusion ZoneUkraine5°
Jökulsárlón Glacier LagoonIceland5°
Belovezhskaya Pushcha National ParkBelarus6°
StockholmSweden6°
Curonian SpitRussia7°
KetchikanUnited States7°
LvivUkraine7°
Mount Everest North Base CampChina7°
AalborgDenmark8°
AlmatyKazakhstan8°
BergenNorway8°
Lake Issyk-KulKyrgyzstan8°
Mogao Caves, DunhuangChina8°
Neuschwanstein CastleGermany8°
ŚwinoujściePoland8°
DresdenGermany9°
Lake DistrictUnited Kingdom9°
Mount ElbrusRussia9°
Niagara FallsCanada9°
SapporoJapan9°
ViennaAustria9°
BishkekKyrgyzstan10°
DublinIreland10°
Jiuzhaigou ValleyChina10°
OdesaUkraine10°
SarajevoBosnia and Herzegovina10°
TurinItaly10°
TurpanChina10°
GoesNetherlands11°
Great Wall of China, MutianyuChina11°
KashgarChina11°
PyongyangNorth Korea11°
SeattleUnited States11°
TurkistanKazakhstan11°
Danube DeltaRomania12°
Mont Saint-MichelFrance12°
Mount FujiJapan12°
Rila MonasteryBulgaria12°
UshuaiaArgentina12°
Yosemite National ParkUnited States12°
CappadociaTurkey13°
L'AquilaItaly13°
LhasaChina13°
BordeauxFrance14°
PorečCroatia14°
Xi'anChina14°
BakuAzerbaijan15°
BukharaUzbekistan15°

Readings come from the last ten years of daily weather data, so they reflect the climate as it is now, not as it was decades ago. Data: Visual Crossing global historical archive. How we compute this

Frequently asked

Where is reliably cool in November?
The driest 12-18°C cool-comfort picks in November, all with a wider day-to-day spread, are: Lhasa (13°C, about 2 rain days, a 10° spread); Bukhara (15°C, about 2 rain days, a 15° spread); Isfahan (18°C, about 4 rain days, an 11° spread); Timgad (18°C, about 4 rain days, a 12° spread).
What counts as a coolcation in November?
On this site, a coolcation is anywhere with a mean daily high at or below 18°C. In November that filters 74 of 295 curated destinations with a ten-year record. The warmest in-band pick is San Carlos de Bariloche at 18°; the steadiest day-to-day is La Paz with a 5° spread.
Is November the right month for a coolcation?
It depends on where you go. In November the ten-year record puts 74 curated destinations at or below 18°C mean daily high. If that count is small, the northern hemisphere is warming and southern-hemisphere hill stations or high-latitude coasts do most of the work. If it is large, the reverse.

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