Climate averages 1991–2020
Nancy weather
in December.
A cold, moderately wet month: the 11th warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a cold month in Nancy: daytime highs average 5.9°C and nights cool to about 1.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 87 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes December a moderately wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 8 h 22 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Metz (48 km away). In December its highs average 5.7°C, about as warm as Nancy, with 84 mm of rain.
Among the 57 cities listed in France, Nancy ranks joint 54th of 57 for the warmest December highs and joint 47th of 57 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 57 cities is 8.5°C; Nancy is 2.6°C cooler than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 0.6°C to 5.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 87 mm to 71 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
Nancy climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.3°C0.1°C | 0.1°C | 71 | 12.8 | 8.89 h |
| February | 6.7°C0.2°C | 0.2°C | 61 | 11.3 | 10.110 h |
| March | 10.6°C2.4°C | 2.4°C | 66 | 11.9 | 11.912 h |
| April | 14.5°C5.2°C | 5.2°C | 59 | 11.1 | 13.714 h |
| May | 18.3°C9.4°C | 9.4°C | 74 | 12.5 | 15.215 h |
| June | 21.8°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 67 | 11.2 | 16.116 h |
| July | 24.2°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 63 | 11.2 | 15.716 h |
| August | 24.2°C14.9°C | 14.9°C | 68 | 11.5 | 14.414 h |
| September | 19.8°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 71 | 9.8 | 12.613 h |
| October | 15.0°C8.1°C | 8.1°C | 72 | 11.9 | 10.911 h |
| November | 9.3°C3.9°C | 3.9°C | 77 | 12.7 | 9.29 h |
| December, selected | 5.9°C1.3°C | 1.3°C | 87 | 14.2 | 8.48 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
- Metz in DecemberFrance · 48 kmHigh 5.7°C · Low 1.2°C · 84 mm rain
- Saarbrücken in DecemberGermany · 86 kmHigh 5.5°C · Low 1.1°C · 99 mm rain
- Luxembourg in DecemberLuxembourg · 103 kmHigh 5.1°C · Low 0.6°C · 84 mm rain
- Strasbourg in DecemberFrance · 115 kmHigh 5.9°C · Low 0.5°C · 87 mm rain
- Trier in DecemberGermany · 124 kmHigh 5.4°C · Low 1.0°C · 99 mm rain
- Mulhouse in DecemberFrance · 134 kmHigh 5.4°C · Low -0.4°C · 92 mm rain
- Kaiserslautern in DecemberGermany · 143 kmHigh 5.2°C · Low 0.9°C · 72 mm rain
- Freiburg in DecemberGermany · 145 kmHigh 5.8°C · Low 0.2°C · 108 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 Nancy) is explained once on the Nancy year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.