Can anyone give me an idea of what the weather is usually like at the end of October, beginning of Novemeber. Is it sunbathing weather??!!!

In my experience, the weather begins to cool and become wet mid to late november - that's generally when we turn off our pool heater.
Hope that helps.

it becomes unpredictable, but I have had lovely days in Oct, Nov and Dec and have had to reach for the sun cream.

http://web.meteo.pt/pt/clima/clima.jsp
Scroll to the bottom of the page and search for temp and rainfall for the month/year of your choice

thanks everyone. I've got the holiday blues as been home for a week now, and my holiday is Carvoeiro seems years ago after a week back at work, so hoping to book another to cheer me up!

Been very light drizzle here this evening..but its very refreshing after the very warm weather..but its still nice and warm
just off for my nightcap
nite

:(Only arrived back in the UK on Sunday night and feeling like the holiday was ages ago. Looking out of the office window seeing the rain and grey sky!!
Just over 9 weeks and we will be back for a week in November - obviously not expecting wall to wall sunshine like we have just had for 2 weeks but at least it will be a break away!! We have be over at Christmas time a few years ago and had a few days of temperatures in the high 60's :

Julie