Climate averages 1991–2020
Santa Lucía weather
in December.
A mild, fairly dry month: the 10th warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a mild month in Santa Lucía: daytime highs average 17.6°C and nights cool to about 13.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 30 mm of rain on roughly 6 days, which makes December a fairly dry month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 25 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Telde (15 km away). In December its highs average 19.3°C, 1.7°C warmer than Santa Lucía, with 30 mm of rain.
Among the 93 cities listed in Spain, Santa Lucía ranks 4th of 93 for the warmest December highs and joint 10th of 93 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 93 cities is 13.1°C; Santa Lucía is 4.5°C warmer than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 1.1°C to 16.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 30 mm to 22 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
Santa Lucía climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 16.5°C12.1°C | 12.1°C | 22 | 4.6 | 10.611 h |
| February | 16.8°C12.0°C | 12.0°C | 25 | 4.6 | 11.211 h |
| March | 18.0°C12.6°C | 12.6°C | 20 | 4.3 | 12.012 h |
| April | 18.8°C13.3°C | 13.3°C | 12 | 3.4 | 12.813 h |
| May | 20.3°C14.5°C | 14.5°C | 6.5 | 1.5 | 13.514 h |
| June | 22.2°C16.2°C | 16.2°C | 0.9 | 0.3 | 13.914 h |
| July | 24.1°C17.7°C | 17.7°C | 0.3 | 0.0 | 13.714 h |
| August | 24.9°C18.6°C | 18.6°C | 1.5 | 0.4 | 13.113 h |
| September | 23.9°C18.3°C | 18.3°C | 9.8 | 1.8 | 12.312 h |
| October | 22.4°C17.2°C | 17.2°C | 24 | 4.9 | 11.512 h |
| November | 19.7°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 22 | 5.3 | 10.811 h |
| December, selected | 17.6°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 30 | 5.6 | 10.410 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
- Telde in DecemberSpain · 15 kmHigh 19.3°C · Low 15.5°C · 30 mm rain
- Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in DecemberSpain · 24 kmHigh 19.4°C · Low 15.5°C · 30 mm rain
- Santa Cruz de Tenerife in DecemberSpain · 93 kmHigh 20.1°C · Low 17.9°C · 32 mm rain
- Arona in DecemberSpain · 114 kmHigh 17.4°C · Low 13.4°C · 40 mm rain
- Laayoune in DecemberWestern Sahara · 247 kmHigh 22.5°C · Low 12.7°C · 8.3 mm rain
- Tan-Tan in DecemberMorocco · 439 kmHigh 22.0°C · Low 12.3°C · 12 mm rain
- Dakhla in DecemberWestern Sahara · 472 kmHigh 23.1°C · Low 14.8°C · 4.7 mm rain
- Funchal in DecemberPortugal · 545 kmHigh 17.7°C · Low 15.1°C · 83 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 Santa Lucía) is explained once on the Santa Lucía year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Telde lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.