Mallorca in November

A mean daily high of 19.0 °C at Palma, 6.1 days of rain in an average November, 10h 59m of usable light and the day shortens by 54m between the first of the month and the last.

Mean daily high

19.0 °C

Mean daily low

8.3 °C

Days of rain

6.1

Sunshine

162 h

Light window

10h 59m

Sunrise, mid-month

07:34

Sunset, mid-month

17:34

The verdict

A month you come in for a reason.

6.1 days of the month see rain, which is a week with a wet one in it more often than not.

10h 59m of light means a long day uses the whole of it, and a mechanical at the wrong end of the island is dealt with in the dark.

This site rates it a quiet month for riding conditions — a judgement of ours, not a measurement.

Light

Three days of November — the first, the middle and the last — computed for this island. Civil dawn and civil dusk are the ends of the window you can ride in without lights; sunrise and sunset are when the disc crosses a sea horizon.

Across the month the light window averages 10h 59m against 10h 01m of sun above the horizon — about 58m of twilight you can use.

The island is wide enough to matter a little: mid-month the sun sets at 17:30 out at Cap de Formentor and 17:35 at Sant Elm. What moves the evening far more than longitude is the Serra itself — these are sea-horizon times, and a valley under a 1,400 m wall loses the sun long before the island does.

Wind

Ask what the wind does in November and you are asking two questions at once. How much of it you ride in is decided by the hour you roll out, not by the month — and the record is emphatic about that. Whether the month hands you a day the island simply takes off you is the other question, and that one really is seasonal — it is the only part of the island’s wind that ranks a month at all.

At 07:00 the wind at Palma de Mallorca averages 2.3 m/s — 8 km/h, which is nothing. By 15:00 it averages 5.0 m/s, 18 km/h. That is 2.7 m/s between the two ends of one November day. The largest difference between any two months of the year, compared at the same hour, is 2.6 m/s. So in November the hour you leave is worth 1.0 times the month you booked.

The sea breeze arrives at 12:00. It arrives somewhere between 11:00 and 13:00 in every month of the year — never earlier, never later, in fifty years of records. That is the single most useful thing on this page: the island does not have a windy season so much as a windy half of the day, and the hour it begins barely moves from January to December.

The daily reversal is not running yet. Morning and afternoon are only 48° apart at Palma de Mallorca, so what blows in November tends to blow the same way all day — which makes an out-and-back honest again, in the months when nothing else about the weather is.

The other question. Force 6 reaches 2.0% of November’s riding hours at Palma de Mallorca — third of the twelve. The year runs from 0.2% in June to 2.2% in February — about one riding hour in 51 here, against one in 640 at the calm end of the year and one in 46 at the rough end. This is the part of the wind that really is a season, and it is the part no start time can do anything about.

The clock here is the island’s and the compass is this station’s. A sea breeze blows onshore, so a wind rose measured on the bay of Palma is not the rose at Port de Pollença, and nothing on this page models a coast it has not measured.

Source NOAA NCEI — Integrated Surface Database, global hourly access · checked 16 August 2026A work of the United States Government: public domain, free to use, including commercially.

The whole record: fifty years of wind, read like a cyclist →

Weather

An average November at Palma airport: 19.0 °C by day, 8.3 °C at the coldest part of the night, 55 mm of rain across 6.1 days and 162 hours of sunshine. These are thirty-year normals, so they say what the month usually does and nothing at all about the week you have booked.

AEMET measures all of that at the airport, five metres above the sea, and the plain is not where you will spend the day. The highest road top in these records — Puig Major — stands 868 m above the station, and no thirty-year normal for sea level describes it. A second thermometer on the Serra does: paired with the airport hour by hour, it puts the air at that top at 10.8 °C around midday in November. For what the mountain is doing today rather than usually, AEMET publishes Escorca (Lluc), at 481 m, the one Tramuntana station with something new on it every day.

Source Agencia Estatal de Meteorología (AEMET) · checked 6 August 2026Temperature, rainfall, rain days and sunshine hours are AEMET’s standard climate values for Palma de Mallorca Airport (station B278), reference period 1981–2010.

After sunset

Two Spanish traffic rules are written against the sun rather than the clock, which makes them facts about the month you are in — one of them today, and the second from 1 October 2026. November puts sunset at 17:34 mid-month.

• Between sunset and sunrise lights are compulsory, and on an interurban road a cyclist must also wear something reflective visible at 150 metres (Art. 98.1 + 98.3). In November that starts at 17:34 mid-month — essentially every road you will ride here.

  “Todos los vehículos que circulen entre el ocaso y la salida del sol … deben llevar encendido el alumbrado … Cuando sea obligatorio el uso del alumbrado, los conductores de bicicletas llevarán, además, colocada alguna prenda reflectante que permita a los conductores y demás usuarios distinguirlos a una distancia de 150 metros, si circulan por vía interurbana.”

  From 1 October 2026 the rule moves to Art. 118.2, keys off sunset directly rather than off the lighting requirement, and accepts a light instead of a garment.

• Two abreast is allowed today, keeping as far right as the road permits, with no rule about the sun at all (Art. 36.2).

  “los conductores de bicicletas … podrán hacerlo en columna de a dos, orillándose todo lo posible al extremo derecho de la vía y colocándose en hilera en tramos sin visibilidad”

  From 1 October 2026 the same article gains a sunset clause: a group two abreast goes single file between sunset and sunrise. In November that would be anything still rolling after 17:34.

Source Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado · checked 7 August 2026Consolidated text, redaction published 5 June 2026. This is the wording that binds today. The BOE's URL without a date does not serve it.

Every rule that binds a cyclist here, and the six that change

How it compares

The nearest month to it in the other half of the year is January: 15.2 °C against 19.0 °C, 10h 43m of light against 10h 59m, 5.7 rain days against 6.1. The day is the same length; what changes is the 3.8 °C between them.

Either side of it: October at 23.9 °C and December at 16.1 °C.

• ← October
• January
• December →

Booking it

The month and the room are one decision, and the island prices them together — the weeks this site rates highest are the weeks the cycling hotels are full. November is worth pricing against its neighbours before anything is confirmed.

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How to read the light figures: they are the island’s, not a road’s. Terrain is not modelled, so a valley under the Serra goes dark earlier than the table says and a summit stays light later.

Sources

Verified Every figure on this page was re-checked against its source on 6 August 2026. Next review due within 365 days.