Climate averages 1991–2020
Mulhouse weather
in December.
A cold, wet month: the 11th warmest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a cold month in Mulhouse: daytime highs average 5.4°C and nights cool to about -0.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 92 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes December a wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 8 h 30 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Basel (28 km away). In December its highs average 5.8°C, about as warm as Mulhouse, with 101 mm of rain.
Among the 57 cities listed in France, Mulhouse ranks 57th of 57 for the warmest December highs and 50th of 57 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 57 cities is 8.5°C; Mulhouse is 3.1°C cooler than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 0.4°C to 5.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 92 mm to 75 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
Mulhouse climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.0°C-1.2°C | -1.2°C | 75 | 12.5 | 8.99 h |
| February | 6.5°C-1.0°C | -1.0°C | 66 | 10.7 | 10.210 h |
| March | 10.7°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 71 | 12.0 | 11.912 h |
| April | 14.7°C5.0°C | 5.0°C | 68 | 11.8 | 13.614 h |
| May | 18.4°C9.2°C | 9.2°C | 93 | 14.0 | 15.115 h |
| June | 22.1°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 80 | 13.2 | 15.916 h |
| July | 24.2°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 81 | 12.9 | 15.616 h |
| August | 24.3°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 80 | 12.0 | 14.314 h |
| September | 19.7°C11.2°C | 11.2°C | 74 | 10.9 | 12.613 h |
| October | 14.9°C7.0°C | 7.0°C | 83 | 12.1 | 10.911 h |
| November | 9.0°C2.5°C | 2.5°C | 81 | 11.8 | 9.39 h |
| December, selected | 5.4°C-0.4°C | -0.4°C | 92 | 13.2 | 8.58 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
- Basel in DecemberSwitzerland · 28 kmHigh 5.8°C · Low -0.8°C · 101 mm rain
- Freiburg in DecemberGermany · 48 kmHigh 5.8°C · Low 0.2°C · 108 mm rain
- Bern in DecemberSwitzerland · 90 kmHigh 4.4°C · Low -2.1°C · 93 mm rain
- Villingen-Schwenningen in DecemberGermany · 93 kmHigh 3.0°C · Low -2.7°C · 100 mm rain
- Strasbourg in DecemberFrance · 98 kmHigh 5.9°C · Low 0.5°C · 87 mm rain
- Zürich in DecemberSwitzerland · 101 kmHigh 5.2°C · Low -0.4°C · 106 mm rain
- Luzern in DecemberSwitzerland · 107 kmHigh 5.3°C · Low 0.0°C · 131 mm rain
- Winterthur in DecemberSwitzerland · 108 kmHigh 4.9°C · Low -0.9°C · 93 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 Mulhouse) is explained once on the Mulhouse year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.