Climate averages 1991–2020
Wuppertal weather
in December.
A cold, 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 Wuppertal: daytime highs average 5.3°C and nights cool to about 1.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 110 mm of rain on roughly 17 days, which makes December a 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 Remscheid (9 km away). In December its highs average 4.2°C, 1.1°C cooler than Wuppertal, with 110 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Wuppertal ranks joint 42nd of 120 for the warmest December highs and joint 117th of 120 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 120 cities is 4.9°C; Wuppertal is 0.4°C warmer than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 0.6°C to 4.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 110 mm to 104 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
Wuppertal climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 4.7°C0.2°C | 0.2°C | 104 | 15.3 | 8.48 h |
| February | 5.9°C0.2°C | 0.2°C | 85 | 13.6 | 9.910 h |
| March | 9.4°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 85 | 14.5 | 11.812 h |
| April | 13.7°C5.1°C | 5.1°C | 65 | 12.4 | 13.814 h |
| May | 17.5°C9.1°C | 9.1°C | 78 | 13.1 | 15.516 h |
| June | 20.3°C12.1°C | 12.1°C | 87 | 13.6 | 16.517 h |
| July | 22.3°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 105 | 15.0 | 16.116 h |
| August | 22.1°C14.2°C | 14.2°C | 99 | 14.3 | 14.615 h |
| September | 18.4°C11.3°C | 11.3°C | 86 | 12.7 | 12.713 h |
| October | 13.7°C8.0°C | 8.0°C | 91 | 13.4 | 10.711 h |
| November | 8.7°C4.2°C | 4.2°C | 92 | 14.8 | 9.09 h |
| December, selected | 5.3°C1.3°C | 1.3°C | 110 | 16.6 | 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
- Remscheid in DecemberGermany · 9 kmHigh 4.2°C · Low 0.1°C · 110 mm rain
- Solingen in DecemberGermany · 10 kmHigh 4.9°C · Low 0.9°C · 106 mm rain
- Velbert in DecemberGermany · 11 kmHigh 4.6°C · Low 0.6°C · 106 mm rain
- Ratingen in DecemberGermany · 21 kmHigh 5.7°C · Low 1.6°C · 89 mm rain
- Essen in DecemberGermany · 24 kmHigh 5.5°C · Low 1.3°C · 84 mm rain
- Witten in DecemberGermany · 25 kmHigh 5.3°C · Low 1.4°C · 89 mm rain
- Hagen in DecemberGermany · 25 kmHigh 5.4°C · Low 1.4°C · 112 mm rain
- Bochum in DecemberGermany · 26 kmHigh 5.4°C · Low 1.2°C · 89 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 Wuppertal) is explained once on the Wuppertal year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Remscheid lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.