At a Glance
Compared to this destination's peak season Web Summit (9-12 November) is the one thing that changes the month: for roughly 6-13 November hotel rates treble, restaurants book out and Ubers surge, so if you are not attending, come the week before or after. Otherwise November ties February as the calmest, cheapest month of the year. São Martinho on the 11th fills the streets with chestnut vendors; All Saints Day on the 1st is a quiet national holiday; Black Friday is the 27th; and the Christmas lights and Wonderland Lisboa arrive in the last week. Budget €4 per person per night for the tourist tax (first 7 nights, under-13s exempt).
Lisbon in November — Travel Guide
By Harry Nara · Last updated
Lisbon in November offers some of the best conditions of the year, ideal for web summit, são martinho & fado. Expect temperatures of 11–18°C, around 13 days of rain, and low (web summit week high) crowds across the city. Daily budgets typically land around €55–700+ for mid-range travellers. Book accommodation two to three months ahead — the most popular rooms sell out fast during peak visiting windows.
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#Weather in Lisbon in November
Lisbon in November averages 11–18°C (52–64°F) with around 13 days of rain, and crowds are low (web summit week high).
| Measure | November in Lisbon |
|---|---|
| Daytime high | 16–18°C / 61–64°F |
| Overnight low | 11°C / 52°F, dropping to 8°C / 46°F in cold snaps |
| Rain | About 110mm across 13 wet days, tied with December as the wettest |
| Wind | The strongest of the year |
| Warm spell | Verão de São Martinho around 11 November, often 20–22°C / 68–72°F |
| Sunset | About 5:15pm early in the month, closer to 5pm by the end |
Figures are IPMA Geofísico 1991–2020 normals.
What that actually means for your trip:
- The rain is rhythmic, not relentless. A front rolls in for a day or two of real rain, then three or four days scrub clean and bright. Thirteen wet days does not mean thirteen ruined ones.
- Bring a jacket that blocks wind, not just water. November has the year's strongest wind, and a rain shell that flaps is close to useless on the miradouros.
- Watch for St Martin's summer. Around the 11th Portugal often gets a warm dry spell of 20–22°C that lands like a gift in the middle of the grey. Not guaranteed, but common enough to have its own name.
- The light is the compensation. Low Atlantic sun against dark cloud gives Lisbon its most dramatic light of the year, and the short days put it at a civilised hour.
Should you come in November? This is the cheapest and calmest month of the Lisbon year alongside February, and if you are here for the city rather than the coast it is a genuinely good trade. You will lose some days to weather. You will also have the museums, the trams and the pastelarias largely to yourself, in the best light the city gets.
#Getting Around
Arriving: Lisbon Airport is 20 minutes from the centre.
The Metro red line is €1.85 (the 2026 rate, up from €1.65) plus a one-time €0.50 for the reloadable Viva Viagem card.
The Aerobus is €4, and a taxi or Uber runs €12-18. November traffic is light, with one enormous exception: Web Summit week (roughly 6-13 November), when Uber and Bolt surge to three or four times normal and the airport clogs. Pre-book a transfer if you land in that window.
In the city: the Lisboa Card (24h €22, 48h €37, 72h €46) is at its most useful now, when you will want the indoor backups it unlocks.
Tram 28 is at its calmest of the year alongside February, with actual empty seats most days.
The Cais do Sodré train to Cascais (€2.40, 30-35 min) is comfortable on dry days, and Rossio to Sintra (€2.40, 40 min) is near-deserted on weekday mornings, when Pena Palace and Quinta da Regaleira feel like they are yours alone.
#What to Do in Lisbon in November
Web Summit: 9-12 November
The single biggest thing that happens to Lisbon all year is not a festival, it is a conference.
Web Summit runs 9-12 November 2026 at the Altice Arena and the neighbouring FIL halls in Parque das Nações, and it is the largest technology event on earth: 70,000-plus attendees, 900-plus speakers, 2,300-plus startups and around 1,200 investors from more than 160 countries. Monday 9 November is registration and Opening Night; the main programme runs Tuesday to Thursday.
Passes run roughly €995 to €3,000 depending on tier and how early you book.
The part that matters even if you never set foot in the arena is what it does to the city.
Each evening the official Night Summit spills the conference out into bars and restaurants across Cais do Sodré, Bairro Alto and Príncipe Real, and the whole centre runs at a networking hum. Hotels treble, restaurants book out with client dinners, and every Uber surges.
São Martinho and the magusto: 11 November
This is the November tradition, and it is genuinely lovely.
St Martin's Day, 11 November, is celebrated with the magusto: roasted chestnuts (castanhas assadas) eaten hot from a paper cone alongside the year's first wine. The saying runs "No São Martinho, vai à adega e prova o vinho" (on St Martin's Day, go to the cellar and taste the wine), and the wine in question is young and rough on purpose: água-pé, a light, low-alcohol drink made from watered pressings, and jeropiga, a sweet fortified must.
Street vendors set up coal drums across Rossio, Praça da Figueira, Cais do Sodré and Chiado, €3-5 a cone, and traditional restaurants run magusto dinners on the night.
The Golegã Horse Fair: Portugal's great equestrian gathering
For a real day out, the Feira Nacional do Cavalo in Golegã is one of the country's most distinctive events and almost no foreign visitor knows about it.
Held in the Ribatejo plains about an hour and a half north of Lisbon, it runs for around ten days over St Martin's Day (the 2025 edition ran 1-11 November; confirm the 2026 dates on the official site) and it has been going, astonishingly, since 1571. Expect Lusitano horses everywhere, riders in traditional Ribatejo dress, dressage and driving competitions, and the same chestnuts-and-new-wine current running through it, because the fair is a São Martinho celebration at heart.
All Saints' Day and the ghost of 1755: 1 November
Sunday 1 November is Dia de Todos os Santos, a national holiday when Portuguese families visit cemeteries and lay chrysanthemums. It is quiet and observed rather than festive, and it is worth understanding because of the date's enormous weight in this particular city.
On All Saints' Day in 1755, at about 9:40 in the morning with the churches packed for Mass, the Great Lisbon Earthquake struck, estimated today at around magnitude 8.5. A tsunami came up the Tagus roughly forty minutes later, and a fire born of thousands of toppled altar candles burned for the best part of a week. Tens of thousands died and medieval Lisbon was largely destroyed. The Marquês de Pombal rebuilt the downtown you now walk, the grid-planned Baixa Pombalina, on one of the world's first earthquake-resistant systems, a hidden timber cage called the gaiola. It is exactly why the geometric Baixa looks nothing like the tangled hill of Alfama, which sat on rock and mostly survived.
The Christmas season begins
November ends by handing over to Christmas.
In the last week of the month Wonderland Lisboa opens at Parque Eduardo VII (the 2025 edition opened 28 November; free entry, with a Ferris wheel, an ice rink, a 19-metre tree and Santa's Village), and the big lights come on: Avenida da Liberdade, Rossio and the tree at Praça do Comércio. If you are here in the last days of November you catch the switch from autumn calm to festive glow, usually without the December crowds. Our December guide has the full festive rundown.
The fado month, and the museums to yourself
This is the season fado feels most at home: cool, dark, slightly melancholy evenings and candlelit tasca interiors.
Tasca do Chico in Bairro Alto (no cover, buy drinks) is the most accessible; Clube de Fado and Mesa de Frades in Alfama do the sit-down dinner-and-show (from around €45pp).
And the great museums are yours: the Calouste Gulbenkian (€10), the Museu Nacional do Azulejo (€8), the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga (€6) and the Coach Museum (€8) all sit half-empty, so you can have entire galleries to yourself on a wet Tuesday.
The last of the surf, and Black Friday
Early-November visitors get one final sporting bonus: the MEO Rip Curl Pro Portugal, the World Surf League Championship Tour stop at Supertubos in Peniche, runs 22 October to 1 November, so if its finals land late you can watch the world's best surfers free from the dunes an hour and a half north.
And Black Friday falls on 27 November 2026 (the day after US Thanksgiving), bringing genuine discounts across Chiado, Avenida da Liberdade and the Colombo and Vasco da Gama shopping centres.
#Food & Dining
Chestnuts and new wine set the tone, but the whole kitchen turns to autumn.
Caldo verde (kale-and-chouriço soup), cozido à portuguesa (a boiled meat-and-vegetable feast) and arroz de pato (duck rice) come into their own, and game (perdiz, javali, lebre) appears on traditional menus.
The dependable tables hold up all year.
Solar dos Presuntos near Restauradores for old-school Portuguese (€18-28).
Cervejaria Ramiro for shellfish (€25-40pp), still worth a 6pm arrival to dodge the queue.
Time Out Market is fully indoor and genuinely pleasant again in November, 30-plus chef stalls under one roof (€8-18 a dish).
Sea Me in Chiado for upscale fish (€35-60pp), and Belcanto for the two-Michelin-star tasting menu (€185+, book weeks ahead).
For pastel de nata the endless argument continues: Pastéis de Belém (€1.40) has the 1837 recipe and a 10-15 minute queue in November, a fraction of summer; Manteigaria (€1.30) hands you a hot one every few minutes and would win more blind tests than the traditionalists admit.
#Nightlife
November nightlife runs at the cosy autumn level.
Bairro Alto is calmer than summer but still spills onto the cobbles on Friday and Saturday.
Cais do Sodré is the reliable strip: Pensão Amor, Sol e Pesca, Musicbox and Pink Street.
Lux Frágil at Santa Apolónia remains the serious club and does not warm up until 2am (cover €15-20).
The exception, again, is Web Summit week, when Pink Street and the rooftop bars fill with huge networking parties, surge-priced cocktails and lanyards everywhere. If you want a table anywhere central between 9 and 12 November, reserve it days ahead. The rest of the month, fado is the better night out: Tasca do Chico, Clube de Fado and Mesa de Frades are at their most atmospheric in the November chill.
#Shopping
Black Friday on 27 November brings the year's biggest sales across Chiado, Avenida da Liberdade and Príncipe Real, and the Christmas shopping season starts in earnest the same week.
Independent picks: A Vida Portuguesa for beautifully packaged Portuguese goods, Embaixada in Príncipe Real for local designers inside a Moorish-revival palace, and Cortiço & Netos in Intendente for genuine discontinued azulejos.
Feira da Ladra flea market runs Tuesday and Saturday mornings at Campo de Santa Clara (bring layers, it is windy), and Garrafeira Nacional in Baixa is the place for the new-vintage wines.
Manteigaria will box pastéis de nata to travel.
#Culture & Etiquette
- São Martinho on 11 November is a real, lived tradition: chestnuts and the year's new wine, summed up in the saying "É no São Martinho que se prova o vinho".
- All Saints' Day (1 November) is a solemn national holiday; some shops close, and it is a day of quiet family remembrance, not celebration.
- Greetings are a handshake, or one kiss on each cheek between friends.
- Lunch is the main meal (1-3pm); dinner runs 8-10pm.
- Couvert (bread, olives, cheese) is not free. It runs €2-6pp and you may decline it with a polite "sem couvert, obrigado".
- Tipping: round up, or 5-10% for good service.
- Web Summit week is a complete tonal shift, and locals plan around it. If you are visiting for the city rather than the conference, so should you.
#Essential Local Phrases
| Portuguese | English | When you'll use it |
|---|---|---|
| Bom dia / Boa tarde | Good morning / afternoon | Standard greetings |
| Obrigado / Obrigada | Thank you (m/f) | Standard thank you |
| Bom São Martinho! | Happy St Martin's Day! | The 11 November greeting |
| Castanhas, por favor | Chestnuts, please | Street vendors |
| Está a chover | It's raining | The most useful November phrase |
| Quanto custa? | How much? | Markets, taxis, shops |
| A conta, por favor | The bill, please | Restaurants |
| Saúde! | Cheers / Health! | Toasting the new wine on São Martinho |
#Packing List
- A warm, wind-proof waterproof jacket. November is the wettest, windiest month.
- Layers: a sweater, long sleeves and a light thermal base for the cold snaps.
- A scarf. The Atlantic wind is at its strongest now.
- Walking shoes with real grip, ideally waterproof. The calçada cobbles are lethal when wet, and in November they are wet a lot.
- Light gloves for cold mornings.
- A compact umbrella (though wind can defeat it, so the jacket matters more).
- Smart-casual for fado houses and fine dining.
- A reusable bottle. Lisbon tap water is safe and free.
- Type F two-pin European adapter.
#Backup Plans (Rainy Days)
November has the most rainy days of any Lisbon month, and the indoor culture is exceptional, so the wet days are no loss.
The Calouste Gulbenkian (€10) is the best indoor hour in the city; the Museu Nacional do Azulejo (€8), MAAT in Belém (€11), the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga (€6) and the Coach Museum (€8) are all warm, quiet and near-empty.
Time Out Market is fully covered.
Cinema São Jorge and the Cinemateca Portuguesa run repertory films for €4-5, the cheapest dry hour in town.
LX Factory is mostly sheltered, the Estufa Fria greenhouse (€3.10) is a warm tropical escape, and the Mosteiro dos Jerónimos (€12) and Torre de Belém (€8) are far more pleasant with the summer crowds gone.
#Budget & Costs
| Travel style | Per day | Per night |
|---|---|---|
| Budget | €55-95 | Hostel €18-32 |
| Mid-range | €110-170 | 3-star €70-120 |
| Comfortable | €210-330 | 4-star €130-230 |
| Web Summit week | Mid-range €350-700 |
November is one of Lisbon's cheapest months alongside January and February, with one glaring exception worth spelling out. During Web Summit week (6-13 November) hotels treble: expect €350-700/night for mid-range and €700-plus for four-star, if anything is left at all.
Sample costs:
| What | Price |
|---|---|
| Lisboa Card 48h | €37 |
| Sintra day, all in | €40-55 |
| Mid-range dinner with wine | €25-40 |
| Pena Palace | €20 |
| Castelo | €15 |
| Jerónimos | €12 |
| Time Out Market dish | €8-18 |
| Roasted chestnuts, a cone | €3-5 |
| Bifana | €2.50-4 |
| Pastel de nata | €1.30-1.40 |
| Bica | €0.80-1.20 |
Where the money actually goes:
- The spread within one month is extreme. A mid-range room is €70-120 most of November and €350-700 during Web Summit. That is the widest single-month range in this guide.
- Availability fails before price does. During the conference there may be nothing left at all, which is a harder problem than an expensive room.
- The tax is unchanged. €4 per person per night, €28 cap, under-13s exempt.
- Everything else sits at the annual floor. Outside the conference week, November matches January and February for cheapness.
November is the sharpest example of a single week distorting an entire month. Eleven months of the year, Lisbon rewards flexibility with modest savings; in November, checking your dates against 9-12 November is worth several hundred euros and possibly the trip itself. Do that one check and November becomes what it should be: a cheap, quiet, chestnut-scented month with the year's lowest rates and no real competition for a table anywhere.
#Safety & Health
November is statistically one of Lisbon's safer months, but the pickpocket hot spots do not change: Tram 28, the Santa Justa lift queue, Rossio and the airport metro.
Web Summit week brings a sharp pickpocket spike around the conference shuttles and the Parque das Nações metro, where distracted, badge-wearing crowds are an easy mark. Bags across the front, phone out of the back pocket.
The real seasonal hazard is the ground: the calçada cobbles are treacherous when wet, and in the wettest month of the year they are wet often, so proper grip matters. Atlantic fronts can be intense, so check IPMA for amber or red warnings before a beach or Sintra day. Cold-and-flu season is under way; hand sanitiser is sensible on packed metro trains. Tap water is safe everywhere.
Emergency: 112, and operators speak English. Pharmacies (green cross) run a 24-hour rota, with the on-duty one posted on the door of every closed pharmacy.
#What's Changed for 2026/2027 Travellers
- Web Summit is 9-12 November 2026 at Parque das Nações. The high-price window for the whole city runs roughly 6-13 November.
- November is Lisbon's wettest month, around 13 wet days and 110mm; older guides quoting eight or nine wet days understate it.
- The metro is €1.85, up from €1.65.
- Pena Palace is €20, not €14. The €14 ticket is now park-only, and palace entry is a pre-booked timed slot.
- The Lisbon tourist tax is €4 per person per night, capped at seven nights; under-13s are exempt.
- The MEO Rip Curl Pro Portugal window runs 22 October to 1 November at Supertubos, Peniche, so late finals can fall into early November.
- Wonderland Lisboa opens in the last week of November at Parque Eduardo VII, and the city Christmas lights switch on around the same time.
- Black Friday is 27 November 2026.
#About This Guide
Written in July 2026, ahead of the November travel window, and checked against primary sources rather than other travel guides.
Climate figures come from IPMA, the Portuguese Institute for Sea and Atmosphere, whose Geofísico station holds the Lisbon 1991-2020 normals. Event details are taken from the organisers directly: Web Summit, the Feira Nacional do Cavalo, the World Surf League and Wonderland Lisboa via Visit Lisboa. All Saints' Day is a fixed national holiday on 1 November; the account of the 1755 earthquake and the Pombaline rebuild is standard Lisbon history. Sintra prices and timed-entry rules come from Parques de Sintra.
Prices change. Where a number here disagrees with the ticket page in front of you, believe the ticket page.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What's on in Lisbon in November 2026?
Web Summit, the world's largest technology conference, runs 9-12 November at Parque das Nações, transforming the city for a week. On 11 November, São Martinho (St Martin's Day) fills the streets with roasted-chestnut vendors and the year's new wine (água-pé and jeropiga), and the Feira Nacional do Cavalo, Portugal's great horse fair, runs around the same dates in Golegã, an hour and a half north. All Saints' Day on Sunday 1 November is a quiet national holiday. The Christmas season also begins: Wonderland Lisboa opens at Parque Eduardo VII and the Avenida da Liberdade lights switch on in the last week, and Black Friday falls on 27 November.
Should I plan my trip around Web Summit?
If you are not attending, yes. Web Summit runs 9-12 November 2026 at the Altice Arena and FIL in Parque das Nações, drawing 70,000-plus people, and for roughly 6-13 November it trebles hotel rates, books out restaurants and surges every Uber. Come the week before or the week after and you pay about a third of the price for the same city. If you are attending, stay on the red Metro line near Oriente rather than in Baixa, so you can reach the venue without a surge-priced taxi each day.
What is the weather like in Lisbon in November?
November ties December as Lisbon's wettest month: IPMA normals give 11-18°C with around 13 wet days and roughly 110mm of rain, arriving in Atlantic fronts (a day or two of rain, then three or four clear). Mornings start near 11°C and cold snaps reach 8°C. There is often a warm dry spell of 20-22°C around 11 November, the Verão de São Martinho (St Martin's summer). The clocks went back on 25 October, so sunset is around 5pm. Pack a wind-proof waterproof jacket and shoes with grip.
What is São Martinho, and what price changes should I know?
São Martinho (St Martin's Day, 11 November) is the magusto tradition: roasted chestnuts eaten hot with the year's new wine, água-pé (light and low-alcohol) and jeropiga (sweet and fortified). All Saints' Day on 1 November is also a national holiday, and it is the anniversary of the 1755 earthquake that destroyed medieval Lisbon and led to the grid-planned Baixa you walk today. For prices: Pena Palace in Sintra is now €20 (the €14 ticket is park-only, with timed entry), the metro is €1.85, and the Lisbon tourist tax is €4 per person per night for the first seven nights (under-13s exempt).