Climate averages 1991–2020

Jerez de la Frontera weather
in December.

A mild, moderately wet month: the 11th warmest and the wettest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 16.5°C Daytime mean, December
Average low 8.0°C Night-time mean, December
Rainfall 79 mm 8 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 10 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Jerez de la Frontera · average highYear overview

December is a mild month in Jerez de la Frontera: daytime highs average 16.5°C and nights cool to about 8.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 79 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes December a moderately wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 42 min on an average December day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Cadiz, Spain (22 km away). In December its highs average 16.5°C, about as warm as Jerez de la Frontera, with 100 mm of rain.

Among the 93 cities listed in Spain, Jerez de la Frontera ranks joint 8th of 93 for the warmest December highs and joint 73rd of 93 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 93 cities is 13.1°C; Jerez de la Frontera is 3.3°C warmer than that mean.

From December to January, average highs fall by 0.9°C to 15.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 79 mm to 56 mm.

The annual picture

December in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. 05101520253035 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 1000

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Jerez de la Frontera climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Jerez de la Frontera, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 15.6°C6.5°C6.5°C567.410.010 h
February 16.9°C7.3°C7.3°C535.810.811 h
March 19.4°C9.4°C9.4°C567.311.912 h
April 21.2°C11.2°C11.2°C496.713.113 h
May 24.9°C14.1°C14.1°C304.914.114 h
June 29.5°C17.7°C17.7°C6.91.314.615 h
July 33.0°C20.0°C20.0°C1.20.314.414 h
August 33.0°C20.4°C20.4°C3.00.513.614 h
September 29.0°C18.2°C18.2°C263.612.512 h
October 24.4°C15.0°C15.0°C747.711.311 h
November 19.2°C10.6°C10.6°C687.110.310 h
December, selected 16.5°C8.0°C8.0°C797.59.710 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

Distance from Jerez de la Frontera

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Jerez de la Frontera) is explained once on the Jerez de la Frontera year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.