whats the weather like in november

[basildonbond]

gday just wondering if any of you bidding walkers have walked the camino in november im thinking of doing just that and was wondering if id need a tent

[Leslie]

I would want so much more than a tent in winter - you will freeze.

Try searching some of the threads from the search bar above - I found this page which has some info Camino Frances in winter.

[Douglas]

I walked the Camino in late September/early November and would suggest that you forget the tent. In fact, regardless of the time of year, forget the tent. Adequate camping facilities as you might understand them in Scotland or France are simply missing. It's a bit like England (the south west honourably excepted) - you're not supposed to camp, so there's not much provision. On the positive side, the hostels along the Camino are cheap and there are usually enough of them that you can be choosy.

November days in northern Spain can be warm enough, even hot, but the nights are invariably cold so if you're camping you're not just carrying a tent, you need a mattress and a 3-season sleeping bag, and that sort of kit is heavy. Unless you have some terribly persuasive reason for not using the hostels, leave your tent at home.

[Villagejonesy]

Hello Basildon, I suppose you've already gone by now, unless you were going next year--but in case anyone else is going in winter, I'll answer: I went from October 9 (Oloron in France) to November 19th (Santiago). The Cruz de Ferro wasn't blanketed in snow, but it did snow some on the Rabanal del Camino hill; also, on the way up to that snow, the wind drove the rain horizontally into your face =

The weird thing is that since I was working so hard at the hiking, the minute I put on layers, especially the rainproof jacket which kept all the sweat inside, my inside layers were completely sweat-soaked (sorry if that's gross to hear, but oh well). So that led to getting a case of hypothermia once I reached the hilltop bar and took off the jacket by the fire. I was shuddering, by a roaring fire, at that, for a good half-hour.

I agree with what others said about the tenting, I only saw one or two camping facilities (there's one at Ruesta on the Camino Aragones, and one at Canfranc or Canfranc-Estacion I think). But almost all of the hostels are five euros or less. Once in a while there'll be a place where you have to spend seven or eight euros, and in Fisterra, the private hostel was 10. But only if you have to take a private hostel is it 7 or 8, normally.

Got a few days of beating sun, between Burgos and Leon (where, by the way, people get sick if they drink tap water, so be warned against that). Aside from that, in the three mountain and hill regions of the Pyrenees, the Cruz de Ferro, and O Cebreiro, it was rainy or snowy; and in the lower regions, somewhere between those two extremes. Toward mid-November, once I hit Galicia, it was pretty constantly rainy, and Santiago itself was simply inundated with sheets of rain. But Fisterra gave me two sunny days, which was great.