Climate averages 1991–2020
Cambridge, Canada weather
in December.
A cold month with moderate precipitation: the 10th warmest and the 2nd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a cold month in Cambridge, Canada: daytime highs average 1.1°C and nights cool to about -5.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 63 mm of precipitation on roughly 10 days, which makes December a month with moderate precipitation (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 02 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Kitchener (18 km away). In December its highs average 0.7°C, about as warm as Cambridge, Canada, with 65 mm of precipitation.
Among the 86 cities listed in Canada, Cambridge, Canada ranks joint 41st of 86 for the warmest December highs and joint 27th of 86 for the driest December (precipitation, lowest first). The mean December high of those 86 cities is 0.2°C; Cambridge, Canada is 0.9°C warmer than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 2.9°C to -1.8°C, and monthly precipitation rises from 63 mm to 65 mm.
The annual picture
December in context
Monthly precipitation
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
Cambridge, Canada climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -1.8°C-10.1°C | -10.1°C | 65 | 10.8 | 9.49 h |
| February | -0.8°C-10.4°C | -10.4°C | 53 | 8.6 | 10.510 h |
| March | 4.5°C-5.3°C | -5.3°C | 64 | 9.8 | 11.912 h |
| April | 11.6°C1.4°C | 1.4°C | 87 | 11.7 | 13.413 h |
| May | 18.8°C8.3°C | 8.3°C | 87 | 11.6 | 14.715 h |
| June | 23.8°C14.0°C | 14.0°C | 94 | 11.5 | 15.315 h |
| July | 26.0°C16.6°C | 16.6°C | 83 | 10.7 | 15.115 h |
| August | 24.9°C16.0°C | 16.0°C | 75 | 9.5 | 14.014 h |
| September | 21.2°C12.3°C | 12.3°C | 77 | 9.5 | 12.513 h |
| October | 13.9°C6.1°C | 6.1°C | 77 | 10.9 | 11.111 h |
| November | 6.8°C0.0°C | 0.0°C | 71 | 10.0 | 9.710 h |
| December, selected | 1.1°C-5.4°C | -5.4°C | 63 | 10.3 | 9.09 h |
Precipitation (rain or snow, as water) is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A wet 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
- Kitchener in DecemberCanada · 18 kmHigh 0.7°C · Low -5.9°C · 65 mm precipitation
- Waterloo in DecemberCanada · 20 kmHigh 0.6°C · Low -5.8°C · 65 mm precipitation
- Guelph in DecemberCanada · 21 kmHigh 0.6°C · Low -5.9°C · 63 mm precipitation
- Brantford in DecemberCanada · 25 kmHigh 1.9°C · Low -4.5°C · 63 mm precipitation
- Burlington in DecemberCanada · 39 kmHigh 2.0°C · Low -3.3°C · 70 mm rain
- Milton in DecemberCanada · 39 kmHigh 1.8°C · Low -4.0°C · 62 mm precipitation
- Hamilton in DecemberCanada · 39 kmHigh 2.5°C · Low -2.5°C · 71 mm rain
- Stoney Creek in DecemberCanada · 47 kmHigh 2.5°C · Low -3.3°C · 71 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 Cambridge) is explained once on the Cambridge, Canada year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Brantford lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.