Climate averages 1991–2020
Düsseldorf 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 Düsseldorf: daytime highs average 5.9°C and nights cool to about 1.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 89 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes December a moderately wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 7 h 59 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Neuss (7 km away). In December its highs average 6.0°C, about as warm as Düsseldorf, with 89 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Düsseldorf ranks joint 5th of 120 for the warmest December highs and joint 97th of 120 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 120 cities is 4.9°C; Düsseldorf is 1.0°C warmer than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 0.6°C to 5.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 89 mm to 79 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
Düsseldorf climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.3°C0.6°C | 0.6°C | 79 | 14.0 | 8.48 h |
| February | 6.6°C0.6°C | 0.6°C | 67 | 12.3 | 10.010 h |
| March | 10.2°C2.5°C | 2.5°C | 67 | 13.0 | 11.812 h |
| April | 14.5°C5.4°C | 5.4°C | 52 | 10.9 | 13.814 h |
| May | 18.2°C9.4°C | 9.4°C | 64 | 11.6 | 15.516 h |
| June | 21.1°C12.5°C | 12.5°C | 76 | 12.5 | 16.516 h |
| July | 23.2°C14.8°C | 14.8°C | 85 | 13.7 | 16.116 h |
| August | 23.0°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 83 | 12.6 | 14.615 h |
| September | 19.2°C11.6°C | 11.6°C | 70 | 11.3 | 12.713 h |
| October | 14.5°C8.3°C | 8.3°C | 77 | 12.2 | 10.711 h |
| November | 9.3°C4.5°C | 4.5°C | 76 | 13.3 | 9.09 h |
| December, selected | 5.9°C1.6°C | 1.6°C | 89 | 15.0 | 8.08 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
- Neuss in DecemberGermany · 7 kmHigh 6.0°C · Low 1.7°C · 89 mm rain
- Ratingen in DecemberGermany · 10 kmHigh 5.7°C · Low 1.6°C · 89 mm rain
- Krefeld in DecemberGermany · 20 kmHigh 5.9°C · Low 1.8°C · 79 mm rain
- Solingen in DecemberGermany · 22 kmHigh 4.9°C · Low 0.9°C · 106 mm rain
- Velbert in DecemberGermany · 22 kmHigh 4.6°C · Low 0.6°C · 106 mm rain
- Duisburg in DecemberGermany · 23 kmHigh 5.9°C · Low 1.8°C · 79 mm rain
- Mönchengladbach in DecemberGermany · 24 kmHigh 6.0°C · Low 1.8°C · 79 mm rain
- Mülheim in DecemberGermany · 24 kmHigh 5.8°C · Low 1.8°C · 84 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 Düsseldorf) is explained once on the Düsseldorf year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Neuss and Ratingen lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.