Climate averages 1991–2020
Ratingen 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 Ratingen: daytime highs average 5.7°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 58 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Düsseldorf (10 km away). In December its highs average 5.9°C, about as warm as Ratingen, with 89 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Ratingen ranks joint 15th 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; Ratingen is 0.8°C warmer than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 0.6°C to 5.1°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
Ratingen climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.1°C0.7°C | 0.7°C | 79 | 14.0 | 8.48 h |
| February | 6.3°C0.7°C | 0.7°C | 67 | 12.3 | 9.910 h |
| March | 9.9°C2.7°C | 2.7°C | 67 | 13.0 | 11.812 h |
| April | 14.2°C5.5°C | 5.5°C | 52 | 10.9 | 13.814 h |
| May | 17.9°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 64 | 11.6 | 15.616 h |
| June | 20.7°C12.5°C | 12.5°C | 76 | 12.5 | 16.517 h |
| July | 22.8°C14.8°C | 14.8°C | 85 | 13.7 | 16.116 h |
| August | 22.5°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 83 | 12.6 | 14.615 h |
| September | 18.9°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 70 | 11.3 | 12.713 h |
| October | 14.2°C8.4°C | 8.4°C | 77 | 12.2 | 10.711 h |
| November | 9.1°C4.5°C | 4.5°C | 76 | 13.3 | 9.09 h |
| December, selected | 5.7°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
- Düsseldorf in DecemberGermany · 10 kmHigh 5.9°C · Low 1.6°C · 89 mm rain
- Velbert in DecemberGermany · 14 kmHigh 4.6°C · Low 0.6°C · 106 mm rain
- Mülheim in DecemberGermany · 15 kmHigh 5.8°C · Low 1.8°C · 84 mm rain
- Neuss in DecemberGermany · 16 kmHigh 6.0°C · Low 1.7°C · 89 mm rain
- Duisburg in DecemberGermany · 16 kmHigh 5.9°C · Low 1.8°C · 79 mm rain
- Oberhausen in DecemberGermany · 20 kmHigh 5.7°C · Low 1.6°C · 79 mm rain
- Krefeld in DecemberGermany · 21 kmHigh 5.9°C · Low 1.8°C · 79 mm rain
- Essen in DecemberGermany · 21 kmHigh 5.5°C · Low 1.3°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 Ratingen) is explained once on the Ratingen year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Düsseldorf and Neuss lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.