Climate averages 1991–2020
Tubarão weather
in December.
A warm, wet month: the 3rd warmest and the 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a warm month in Tubarão: daytime highs average 27.2°C and nights cool to about 20.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 92 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes December a wet month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 55 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is São José (Santa Catarina, 28.21°S 49.16°W), Brazil (32 km away). In December its highs average 26.9°C, about as warm as Tubarão, with 226 mm of rain.
Among the 448 cities listed in Brazil, Tubarão ranks joint 307th of 448 for the warmest December highs and 83rd of 448 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 448 cities is 28.5°C; Tubarão is 1.3°C cooler than that mean.
From December to January, average highs rise by 0.7°C to 27.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 92 mm to 129 mm.
The annual picture
December in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Tubarão climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 27.9°C21.7°C | 21.7°C | 129 | 15.2 | 13.714 h |
| February | 27.9°C21.8°C | 21.8°C | 106 | 14.4 | 13.113 h |
| March | 27.0°C20.9°C | 20.9°C | 98 | 14.4 | 12.312 h |
| April | 25.2°C18.6°C | 18.6°C | 80 | 9.3 | 11.411 h |
| May | 22.0°C15.5°C | 15.5°C | 109 | 9.3 | 10.711 h |
| June | 20.3°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 82 | 7.9 | 10.410 h |
| July | 19.6°C12.5°C | 12.5°C | 79 | 8.4 | 10.511 h |
| August | 20.9°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 82 | 8.3 | 11.111 h |
| September | 21.6°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 104 | 10.7 | 11.912 h |
| October | 23.3°C17.2°C | 17.2°C | 109 | 12.6 | 12.813 h |
| November | 25.0°C18.5°C | 18.5°C | 100 | 11.8 | 13.514 h |
| December, selected | 27.2°C20.5°C | 20.5°C | 92 | 11.7 | 13.914 h |
Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.
Compare places
December in nearby cities
- São José (Santa Catarina, 28.21°S 49.16°W), Brazil in DecemberBrazil · 32 kmHigh 26.9°C · Low 18.3°C · 226 mm rain
- Criciúma in DecemberBrazil · 42 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 18.9°C · 127 mm rain
- Araranguá in DecemberBrazil · 71 kmHigh 25.8°C · Low 19.3°C · 139 mm rain
- Palhoça in DecemberBrazil · 97 kmHigh 27.0°C · Low 20.4°C · 169 mm rain
- São José (Santa Catarina, 27.62°S 48.63°W), Brazil in DecemberBrazil · 102 kmHigh 26.9°C · Low 20.7°C · 167 mm rain
- Florianópolis in DecemberBrazil · 107 kmHigh 26.4°C · Low 21.1°C · 126 mm rain
- Lages in DecemberBrazil · 148 kmHigh 24.5°C · Low 15.6°C · 167 mm rain
- Brusque in DecemberBrazil · 152 kmHigh 27.6°C · Low 20.2°C · 176 mm rain
Read the numbers correctly
Climate, not a promise.
These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.
Sources, method and limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Tubarão) is explained once on the Tubarão year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.