Dunn’s River Falls in November: Weather, Sea Temperature and How It Compares to October and December

DUNN’S RIVER FALLS · NOVEMBER · 18.4° N

Average highs at Dunn’s River Falls reach 83.4°F in November, the sea off the coast runs 85.1°F, and 4.44 inches of rain fall across the month. October, read from the same record, delivers 6.19 inches over 16.2 wet days. November keeps nearly all of the heat and sheds about a third of the rain.

What you give up is daylight and a couple of degrees of water. On November 15 you get 11 hours 18 minutes of it, and the sun is gone by 5:32 p.m. local time, so a climb booked for late afternoon leaves no beach hour behind it. The month also falls inside the Atlantic storm season, covered month by month in our hurricane-season guide. Flights and the ride from the airport sit in the transfers guide.

On this page

• Dunn’s River Falls weather in November83.4°F days, 74.7°F nights, 11.4 wet days
• Can you swim at the falls in November?The sea runs 85.1°F
• Crowds and prices in NovemberWhat the calendar fixes, and what we could not verify
• Things to do at the falls in NovemberOcho Rios, the beach hours and the 5:32 p.m. light
• A two-day plan for Dunn’s River FallsTwo days built around a 6:14 a.m. sunrise
• November vs October and DecemberRain, air and sea figures for all three
• Is November a good time to visit?Yes for swimmers, no for a locked single date

Every figure here comes from a model reanalysis, not from a thermometer at the falls. Open-Meteo’s ERA5 series averages 1991 to 2020 over the grid cell at 18.4074N, 77.103W, centered on Ocho Rios about three kilometers from the river mouth. The same weather reaches both, so the numbers are close enough to plan a week around. They are not an airport station record, and we say so where it matters.

Dunn’s River Falls weather in November: average highs, lows and rain days

The November normals read 83.4°F by day, 74.7°F at night and 4.44 inches of rain. Open-Meteo’s ERA5 reanalysis produced them over 1991 to 2020, from the grid cell above Ocho Rios rather than from a gauge beside the cascade. Reanalysis smooths local quirks, so take 83.4°F as the shape of a typical afternoon and not as a reading you will match on a thermometer at the top of the climb.

Measurable rain lands on 11.4 days in an average November, roughly three days in eight. Spread over 4.44 inches, most of those days carry only a fraction of an inch each, so the arithmetic points to a wet hour inside a dry day rather than a washout. Book the climb for the morning and keep the afternoon movable.

Nights average 74.7°F, 8.7°F below the afternoon. Nothing in that spread calls for a jacket. A wet evening at 74.7°F with a breeze coming off the water does feel thin in a swimsuit, so pack a dry shirt, one light layer and shoes you can stand on wet rock in. The rest of the bag is in what to pack for Jamaica.

On November 15 the sun rises at 6:14 a.m. and sets at 5:32 p.m. local time, for 11 hours 18 minutes of daylight, converted from the UTC times published by sunrise-sunset.org. The squeeze lands at the back of the afternoon. A climb that starts at three finishes in the last usable light, and dinner in Ocho Rios happens after dark whatever time you sit down.

Can you swim in Dunn’s River Falls in November? Sea temperature and what it feels like

The sea surface off the falls averages 85.1°F in November. That figure is the mean of daily maxima over 2015 to 2024, taken from the Open-Meteo Marine API, so it sits a shade above what a full 24-hour average would give. Even discounted for that, the water is warmer than the air’s average high of 83.4°F.

At 85.1°F there is no entry shock and no sensible time limit. Children stay in until someone calls them out. Adults who last twenty minutes in the Atlantic in summer lose track of the hour here. Snorkeling without a shorty is comfortable, and a rash guard is doing work against the sun rather than the cold.

We could not verify a wind, wave or river-flow series for this stretch of coast in November, so we give no swell or current figure. What we can date is the trend in the water: 87.3°F in October, 85.1°F in November, 83.1°F in December, all from the same marine series. A 4.2°F slide across three months makes the sea the least useful reason to move your dates.

How busy is Dunn’s River Falls in November? Crowds, prices and the demand peak

November sits between two things the calendar fixes: the tail of the Atlantic storm season and the December holiday run. That position is a fact of the calendar. What it does to room rates is not something we can show you, because we found no occupancy series and no monthly hotel-rate series for this coast, so we crown no month cheap and no month expensive.

The same limit applies to booking lead time. We have no lead-time data for the month, so we give no number of weeks. The lever we can quantify is the date itself: move the trip to December and the record improves by 3.2 wet days and just over an inch of rain, move it back to October and you take 16.2 wet days. Routes and seasons for the flight are in our guide to flights from the US.

We could not verify Jamaica’s accommodation tax rate, so we quote no percentage here. What a week actually costs, line by line, sits in the trip cost page, and where to sleep on this coast is in our Ocho Rios guide.

The one upgrade that changes a November trip is a refundable rate. With 11.4 wet days on the record and a storm season still open, flexibility is the only line where the extra money buys something measurable: the right to move a day. A sea view or a larger room buys exactly the same thing in November that it buys in any other month.

Things to do in Dunn’s River Falls in November

November is the month when the water is still October-warm and the sky is not. Air highs fall 2.8°F from October, wet days fall from 16.2 to 11.4, and the sea gives up only 2.2°F. In October roughly one day in two records measurable rain. In November it is closer to one in three, and that difference is an afternoon you get back.

On the named specifics: the falls lie about three kilometers from the Ocho Rios grid point our weather figures come from, close enough that the two share a forecast. Check the operator for the current admission price and opening hours before you drive. Two other stops in this series have their own pages, the Luminous Lagoon and the Blue Mountains, with the wider list in things to do in Jamaica.

We have no water-temperature series for the river itself, so we make no claim about how the cascade feels from one season to the next. The sea does move, and it moves little: 85.1°F this month against 87.3°F in October. The air is what shifts the day around the climb, and 83.4°F with 11.4 wet days is a different afternoon from 86.2°F with 16.2 of them.

We could not verify any free-admission day or seasonal discount at the falls in November, so we name none. The free fixture we can date is the light: 11 hours 18 minutes of it on November 15, with the last of it going at 5:32 p.m. over the water.

Dunn’s River Falls in November: a two-day itinerary

Day one runs on the morning. Light arrives at 6:14 a.m., so breakfast at seven and the falls at opening puts the climb behind you before the day reaches 83.4°F. Give the middle of the day to the sea at 85.1°F. Leave the middle of the afternoon unbooked, because the wet hour tends to arrive in one piece, and be back on the sand by five for a 5:32 p.m. sunset.

Day two takes the inland option, and it is the day to slide if the sky turns. With 11.4 wet days on the month, a plan that can move by twenty-four hours costs nothing. A plan that cannot costs a deposit. Road times along the north coast are in the driving guide, and the case for a driver instead of a rental is in getting around Jamaica.

Dunn’s River Falls in November vs October and December

Across the three months the air loses 4.3°F, from October’s 86.2°F to December’s 81.9°F, and November’s 83.4°F sits nearer the October end. Rain drops faster than temperature: 6.19 inches, then 4.44, then 3.43. Wet days follow the same slope, 16.2 to 11.4 to 8.2. The sea reads 87.3°F, 85.1°F and 83.1°F, so the swim changes least of the three.

Shifting four weeks in either direction is a real trade. Go back to October and you gain 2.8°F of afternoon heat and 2.2°F of sea, then pay for it with 4.8 extra wet days and 1.75 extra inches of rain. Go forward to December and wet days drop to 8.2, at the cost of a sea 2.0°F cooler and a holiday calendar closing in. The twelve-month view is in the best time to visit Jamaica.

Is November a good time to visit Dunn’s River Falls?

Yes for swimmers and for anyone whose dates can bend. The sea at 85.1°F asks nothing of you, afternoons average 83.4°F, and 11.4 wet days out of thirty still leaves two days in three dry. No for a traveler locked to one fixed date with a single shot at the climb, since the month remains inside the Atlantic storm season and a wet morning cannot be rescheduled on a day trip.

If the answer is no, December is the month to buy: 8.2 wet days against 11.4, 3.43 inches against 4.44, and only 1.5°F off November’s average high. The bill comes as a sea at 83.1°F and the holiday calendar arriving behind it.

Against its two neighbors, November is the only one of the three that puts an 85.1°F sea and fewer than twelve wet days in the same month.

The last word

Book the climb for the first hour of the morning and leave the back half of day two open. That is the whole November strategy here, and it costs nothing when the sky behaves. One figure we held back for the end: in an average November, 0.4 of a day records an inch of rain or more. That works out to a genuine soaking roughly two Novembers in five.

Sources & data for this guide

• November air normals, 83.4°F high, 74.7°F low, 4.44 in, 11.4 days at 0.10 in, 0.4 day at 1.00 in · Open-Meteo / ECMWF ERA5, 1991-2020, grid cell 18.4074N 77.103W over Ocho Rios · model reanalysis, not an airport station record · checked Sep 21, 2026
• Sea surface 85.1°F, mean of daily maxima 2015-2024 · Open-Meteo Marine API · checked Sep 21, 2026
• Daylight 11 h 18 min, sunrise 6:14 a.m. and sunset 5:32 p.m. on November 15, converted from 11:14 and 22:32 UTC · sunrise-sunset.org · checked Sep 21, 2026
• October and December figures for air, rain and sea · same ERA5 series and same marine API as above · checked Sep 21, 2026
• We could not verify admission prices, opening hours, occupancy series, hotel rates or the accommodation tax rate, so we quote none of them · check the operator and your booking before you travel.

To plan your stay

• Best Time to Visit Dunn's River Falls: Weather, Sea Temperature and Rain by Month
• Dunn's River Falls in October: Weather, Sea Temperature and Rain Days
• Dunn's River Falls in December: Weather, Sea Temperature and Crowds
• Dunn's River Falls in January: Weather, Sea Temperature and How It Compares to December and February

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