Climate averages 1991–2020
Winterthur weather
in December.
A cold, wet month: the 11th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a cold month in Winterthur: daytime highs average 4.9°C and nights cool to about -0.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 93 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes December a wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 8 h 32 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Zürich (20 km away). In December its highs average 5.2°C, about as warm as Winterthur, with 106 mm of rain.
Among the 8 cities listed in Switzerland, Winterthur ranks 6th of 8 for the warmest December highs and joint 1st of 8 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 8 cities is 5.1°C; Winterthur is 0.2°C cooler than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 0.4°C to 4.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 93 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
Winterthur climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 4.5°C-1.9°C | -1.9°C | 79 | 12.3 | 8.99 h |
| February | 5.8°C-2.0°C | -2.0°C | 69 | 11.3 | 10.210 h |
| March | 9.9°C0.8°C | 0.8°C | 82 | 13.2 | 11.912 h |
| April | 13.8°C4.0°C | 4.0°C | 85 | 12.5 | 13.614 h |
| May | 17.6°C8.5°C | 8.5°C | 119 | 15.2 | 15.115 h |
| June | 21.2°C12.3°C | 12.3°C | 113 | 14.8 | 15.916 h |
| July | 23.1°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 106 | 13.7 | 15.616 h |
| August | 23.1°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 107 | 13.0 | 14.314 h |
| September | 18.7°C10.8°C | 10.8°C | 91 | 11.1 | 12.613 h |
| October | 14.4°C6.9°C | 6.9°C | 83 | 11.6 | 10.911 h |
| November | 8.6°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 87 | 12.1 | 9.49 h |
| December, selected | 4.9°C-0.9°C | -0.9°C | 93 | 13.7 | 8.59 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
- Zürich in DecemberSwitzerland · 20 kmHigh 5.2°C · Low -0.4°C · 106 mm rain
- Konstanz in DecemberGermany · 38 kmHigh 4.3°C · Low 0.4°C · 85 mm rain
- Sankt Gallen in DecemberSwitzerland · 50 kmHigh 3.4°C · Low -3.5°C · 105 mm rain
- Luzern in DecemberSwitzerland · 60 kmHigh 5.3°C · Low 0.0°C · 131 mm rain
- Villingen-Schwenningen in DecemberGermany · 64 kmHigh 3.0°C · Low -2.7°C · 100 mm rain
- Vaduz in DecemberLiechtenstein · 72 kmHigh 5.0°C · Low -2.7°C · 124 mm rain
- Freiburg in DecemberGermany · 85 kmHigh 5.8°C · Low 0.2°C · 108 mm rain
- Basel in DecemberSwitzerland · 87 kmHigh 5.8°C · Low -0.8°C · 101 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 Winterthur) is explained once on the Winterthur year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.