Where to go in November
The places at their best in November, ranked by what the weather actually does — not by what a brochure says it does.
1. Phoenix
United States
Desert golf, saguaro trails, and reliable winter warmth.
Highs around 25° (78°) · about 2 wet days a month · 257 airlines fly there
2. Scottsdale
United States
Desert golf, spas, and old town galleries.
Highs around 25° (78°) · about 2 wet days a month · 257 airlines fly there
3. New Delhi
India
Mughal tombs, imperial avenues, and India's political centre.
Highs around 27° (80°) · about a wet day a month · 262 airlines fly there
4. Los Angeles
United States
Beaches, canyons, tacos, and the industry that makes everything.
Highs around 23° (74°) · about 3 wet days a month · 496 airlines fly there
5. Shenzhen
China
China's tech boomtown, forty years from fishing village.
Highs around 25° (77°) · about 7 wet days a month · 231 airlines fly there
6. Cairo
Egypt
Pyramids at the city edge and a museum of everything.
Highs around 27° (80°) · about a wet day a month · 147 airlines fly there
7. Perth
Australia
Isolated, sunny, and full of white-sand river beaches.
Highs around 25° (77°) · about 4 wet days a month · 86 airlines fly there
8. Orlando
United States
Theme parks, and more theme parks, plus springs nearby.
Highs around 25° (77°) · about 8 wet days a month · 238 airlines fly there
9. Mexico City
Mexico
High-altitude megacity with world-class museums and markets.
Highs around 23° (74°) · about 5 wet days a month · 237 airlines fly there
10. Tampa
United States
Cuban sandwiches in Ybor, and Gulf beaches west.
Highs around 25° (78°) · about 6 wet days a month · 138 airlines fly there
11. Kuwait City
Kuwait
Gulf towers, seafood, and a very good grand mosque.
Highs around 26° (79°) · about 4 wet days a month · 119 airlines fly there
12. Santiago
Chile
Andes on the skyline, vineyards south, coast an hour west.
Highs around 26° (79°) · about 2 wet days a month · 79 airlines fly there