Climate averages 1991–2020
Chongqing weather
in December.
A cool, fairly dry month: the 11th warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a cool month in Chongqing: daytime highs average 12.0°C and nights cool to about 6.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 37 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes December a fairly dry month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 17 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Huixing (15 km away). In December its highs average 10.8°C, 1.1°C cooler than Chongqing, with 37 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Chongqing ranks joint 229th of 884 for the warmest December highs and joint 629th of 884 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 884 cities is 7.5°C; Chongqing is 4.4°C warmer than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 1.2°C to 10.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 37 mm to 28 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
Chongqing climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 10.7°C5.1°C | 5.1°C | 28 | 7.6 | 10.510 h |
| February | 13.3°C6.9°C | 6.9°C | 33 | 8.8 | 11.111 h |
| March | 17.6°C10.1°C | 10.1°C | 72 | 13.2 | 12.012 h |
| April | 22.5°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 117 | 15.0 | 12.913 h |
| May | 25.8°C18.0°C | 18.0°C | 163 | 16.1 | 13.614 h |
| June | 28.5°C21.6°C | 21.6°C | 173 | 15.6 | 14.014 h |
| July | 31.8°C24.4°C | 24.4°C | 166 | 14.6 | 13.814 h |
| August | 32.1°C24.4°C | 24.4°C | 147 | 14.2 | 13.213 h |
| September | 27.5°C20.6°C | 20.6°C | 118 | 12.4 | 12.412 h |
| October | 21.5°C16.0°C | 16.0°C | 107 | 16.3 | 11.511 h |
| November | 17.0°C11.3°C | 11.3°C | 72 | 11.6 | 10.711 h |
| December, selected | 12.0°C6.7°C | 6.7°C | 37 | 8.9 | 10.310 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
- Huixing in DecemberChina · 15 kmHigh 10.8°C · Low 5.6°C · 37 mm rain
- Banan in DecemberChina · 20 kmHigh 12.6°C · Low 7.3°C · 37 mm rain
- Luohuang in DecemberChina · 27 kmHigh 12.4°C · Low 7.3°C · 40 mm rain
- Beibei in DecemberChina · 32 kmHigh 12.4°C · Low 7.2°C · 37 mm rain
- Bishan in DecemberChina · 32 kmHigh 12.2°C · Low 7.0°C · 33 mm rain
- Qinggang in DecemberChina · 33 kmHigh 12.2°C · Low 7.1°C · 33 mm rain
- Jijiang in DecemberChina · 42 kmHigh 12.5°C · Low 7.5°C · 36 mm rain
- Degan in DecemberChina · 44 kmHigh 12.6°C · Low 7.6°C · 36 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 Chongqing) is explained once on the Chongqing year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Banan lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.