Climate averages 1991–2020
Kwangyang weather
in December.
A cold, fairly dry month: the 11th warmest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a cold month in Kwangyang: daytime highs average 7.8°C and nights cool to about -0.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 28 mm of rain on roughly 4 days, which makes December a fairly dry month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 51 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Suncheon (10 km away). In December its highs average 7.8°C, about as warm as Kwangyang, with 28 mm of rain.
Among the 79 cities listed in South Korea, Kwangyang ranks joint 14th of 79 for the warmest December highs and joint 50th of 79 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 79 cities is 5.6°C; Kwangyang is 2.2°C warmer than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 2.1°C to 5.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 28 mm to 29 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
Kwangyang climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.7°C-2.2°C | -2.2°C | 29 | 4.1 | 10.110 h |
| February | 8.0°C-1.0°C | -1.0°C | 43 | 4.9 | 10.911 h |
| March | 12.5°C2.9°C | 2.9°C | 79 | 7.5 | 11.912 h |
| April | 18.0°C8.3°C | 8.3°C | 120 | 8.4 | 13.013 h |
| May | 22.6°C13.7°C | 13.7°C | 138 | 8.2 | 14.014 h |
| June | 25.6°C18.4°C | 18.4°C | 194 | 10.7 | 14.514 h |
| July | 28.2°C22.6°C | 22.6°C | 321 | 17.8 | 14.314 h |
| August | 29.0°C23.4°C | 23.4°C | 288 | 17.1 | 13.513 h |
| September | 25.7°C18.8°C | 18.8°C | 160 | 10.3 | 12.412 h |
| October | 20.7°C12.3°C | 12.3°C | 66 | 4.7 | 11.311 h |
| November | 14.1°C5.6°C | 5.6°C | 47 | 5.5 | 10.410 h |
| December, selected | 7.8°C-0.2°C | -0.2°C | 28 | 3.8 | 9.910 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
- Suncheon in DecemberSouth Korea · 10 kmHigh 7.8°C · Low -0.7°C · 28 mm rain
- Gwangyang in DecemberSouth Korea · 10 kmHigh 7.7°C · Low -0.7°C · 28 mm rain
- Yeosu in DecemberSouth Korea · 25 kmHigh 7.9°C · Low 2.1°C · 31 mm rain
- Chinju in DecemberSouth Korea · 51 kmHigh 7.6°C · Low -2.2°C · 28 mm rain
- Nangen in DecemberSouth Korea · 52 kmHigh 6.3°C · Low -1.8°C · 31 mm rain
- Gwangju in DecemberSouth Korea · 64 kmHigh 6.8°C · Low -1.3°C · 30 mm rain
- Masan in DecemberSouth Korea · 71 kmHigh 7.1°C · Low -1.0°C · 29 mm rain
- Tongyeong in DecemberSouth Korea · 78 kmHigh 8.2°C · Low 2.2°C · 37 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 Kwangyang) is explained once on the Kwangyang year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Suncheon lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.