What is Orlando like in November? Weather, Thanksgiving, crowds and prices

November in Orlando opens like late summer and closes with hoodie weather. Halloween wraps up on the first, Christmas decorations go up across the parks, and Thanksgiving week brings one of the busiest travel stretches of the year. The trick is knowing which week you are booking.

What is the weather like in Orlando in November?

Warm afternoons, cool evenings and very little rain. NOAA climate normals (the 1991 to 2020 average, measured at Orlando International Airport) put the average high at 78 °F (26 °C) and the average low at 58 °F (15 °C). November is the driest month of the year.

November in Orlando	1991 to 2020 normal
Average high	78 °F (26 °C)
Average low	58 °F (15 °C)
Monthly mean	68 °F (20 °C)
Days with a high above 80 °F (27 °C)	about 15
Nights with a low below 50 °F (10 °C)	about 5
Nights with a low below 40 °F (4 °C)	fewer than 1
Rain for the month	1.8 in (45 mm)
Days with at least 0.1 in of rain	about 3

Source: NOAA (NCEI) 1991 to 2020 climate normals, Orlando International Airport.

The month cools off gradually. According to the daily normals from the National Weather Service office in Melbourne, which covers Orlando, November 1 has a normal high of 81 °F (27 °C) and a low of 61 °F (16 °C). By November 30 those drop to 76 °F (24 °C) and 56 °F (13 °C). The first week is still shorts weather all day. The last week calls for a layer after dark.

For context, October averages a high of 85 °F (29 °C) with about 3.5 inches of rain, and December a high of 74 °F (23 °C) with about 2.5 inches. November sits in between on temperature and is the driest of the three. November 2025 was dry even by that standard: the airport recorded less than 2 mm (under a tenth of an inch) of rain, the third driest November since 1892, per the National Weather Service. The full year is in Orlando weather by month.

Is hurricane season over in November?

Officially, it ends November 30. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) defines the Atlantic season as June 1 to November 30, with a peak around September 10 and most activity between mid August and mid October. The NHC also notes that storms can form outside those dates. The risk in November is lower than at the peak, but check the NHC outlook in the days before you travel.

Is early November a good time to visit Orlando?

For weather and crowds, it is one of the better windows of the year, and it comes with one change you will notice right away. Daylight saving time ends at 2 a.m. on Sunday, November 1, 2026, according to NIST. U.S. Naval Observatory data has sunset in Orlando at 6:41 p.m. on October 31 and 5:40 p.m. on November 1. By the end of the month it is close to 5:30 p.m.

If you are flying in from the UK, British clocks go back a week earlier, on October 25, 2026, per GOV.UK. For that last week of October, Orlando is four hours behind London instead of the usual five.

Darkness comes early and the air cools fast after sunset. If an evening swim matters to your family, look at pool heat. We explain how it works in how pool heat works in Orlando vacation homes.

Is Orlando crowded during Thanksgiving week?

Thanksgiving week is busy. The rest of November usually is not. Thanksgiving falls on Thursday, November 26, 2026, according to the OPM federal holiday calendar. In Orange County, where Orlando is, public schools close for the whole week, November 23 to 27, and a lot of families elsewhere get at least part of that week off too. Plenty of them turn it into a Florida trip.

Outside Thanksgiving week, American schools are in session. Veterans Day, Wednesday, November 11, is the only other federal holiday of the month, and Orange County schools stay open that day per the district calendar. A midweek holiday rarely moves park crowds the way a long weekend does. What opens and closes on Thanksgiving Day, and where to eat, is covered in Thanksgiving in Orlando.

A few details help with planning:

• Party nights at Magic Kingdom. On nights of the separately ticketed Christmas party, the park closes at 6 p.m. for regular ticket holders. During Thanksgiving week 2026 that happens on the 24th, 25th, 27th and 29th. Per the hours published as of October, Magic Kingdom is open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day itself.
• Capacity. Disney’s ticket terms say park capacity is limited and list holiday periods among the most in demand dates. Buy date based tickets before you leave home.
• Airports. For Thanksgiving 2025, TSA forecast more than 17.8 million people screened from Tuesday, November 25 to Tuesday, December 2, and more than 3 million on the Sunday after the holiday, which the agency called one of the busiest travel days in its history. If you are flying, that Sunday is the day to plan around.

Driving down from Georgia or the Carolinas skips the airport crunch, though not the interstate traffic. Leave early in the day if you can.

Home prices follow the calendar too. The table on this page shows the November median next to the other months. As a reference point, the median nightly rate of Orlando Best Place homes over the next 12 months, before cleaning and taxes, is $162. How the seasons compare is in Orlando peak and off season.

In practice: if your dates are flexible, come between November 2 and 20. It is dry, Food & Wine runs through the 21st and Disney’s Christmas parties start on the 7th. If it has to be Thanksgiving week, do the busiest parks early in the trip, keep Thursday for dinner at the house, and fly home on Saturday instead of Sunday if you can.

What to pack for Orlando in November

Summer clothes for the day and a layer for the evening. Early in the month the suitcase is almost all warm weather. By the end, a jacket goes in the backpack every day.

• T-shirts, shorts and light dresses for park days.
• A hoodie or light jacket for after sunset, which comes around 5:30 p.m. once the clocks change.
• Long pants for cool nights and the evening park parties.
• Comfortable closed sneakers. A park day means a lot of walking.
• Sunscreen, a hat and sunglasses. Half the days in the month top 80 °F.
• A light rain jacket. It rarely rains, but a cold front can bring one wet day.
• Swimsuits, if your home has a heated pool.

Disney’s Christmas parties run until midnight or later. On a cold front night the temperature can drop toward 50 °F (10 °C), so pack a warm layer for everyone, especially kids.

What is there to do in Orlando in November?

November is changeover month at the parks. Halloween ends on the first day, the EPCOT food festival runs to the 21st and the holiday programming rolls out over the month. These are the 2026 dates published by the official sites.

Event	Where	November 2026 dates
Halloween Horror Nights	Universal Studios Florida	Final night November 1
EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival	EPCOT	Through November 21
Christmas Celebration	SeaWorld Orlando	Select dates from November 6
Disney Jollywood Nights	Hollywood Studios	November 7, 14, 16, 21, 23 and 28
Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party	Magic Kingdom	November 8, 9, 12, 13, 15, 17, 19, 20, 24, 25, 27 and 29
Disney holiday season	Walt Disney World	From November 13
Holidays at Universal	Universal Studios Florida, Islands of Adventure and Epic Universe	From November 14
Thanksgiving	U.S. federal holiday	November 26
Black Friday	Stores and outlets	November 27
EPCOT International Festival of the Holidays	EPCOT	From November 27

Halloween Horror Nights. Universal’s separately ticketed horror event runs August 28 to November 1, 2026. Arrive on Halloween weekend and you still catch the final night.

EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival. Food and drink booths from around the world fill EPCOT from August 27 to November 21, 2026. Each dish is paid separately, but Disney says the festival itself is included with EPCOT admission. It is one of the best reasons to pick the first half of the month.

Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party. Magic Kingdom’s Christmas party starts November 8. Per Disney, it runs 7 p.m. to midnight, with entry from 4 p.m. for party guests. Tickets cost $189 to $229 per person plus tax depending on the date, with $10 off for kids ages 3 to 9. You do not need a regular park ticket that day.

Disney Jollywood Nights. Hollywood Studios’ holiday party starts November 7. It runs 7:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., with entry from 5:30 p.m., and costs $169 to $199 per person plus tax depending on the date.

Holidays across the parks. Disney’s holiday season starts November 13, per its official site. Universal’s official announcement sets its start for November 14. SeaWorld begins Christmas Celebration on November 6, on select dates, included with admission. At EPCOT, the Festival of the Holidays takes over from Food & Wine on November 27. In the second half of the month most of the decorations are already up. The full holiday lineup is in Orlando in December.

Thanksgiving and Black Friday. The holiday is Thursday the 26th and Black Friday is Friday the 27th. If shopping is part of the plan, start with Black Friday in Orlando.

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