Climate averages 1991–2020
Hoofddorp weather
in December.
A cold, moderately wet month: the 10th 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 Hoofddorp: daytime highs average 6.6°C and nights cool to about 3.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 79 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes December a moderately wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 7 h 48 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Haarlem (9 km away). In December its highs average 6.6°C, about as warm as Hoofddorp, with 79 mm of rain.
Among the 44 cities listed in the Netherlands, Hoofddorp ranks joint 5th of 44 for the warmest December highs and joint 36th of 44 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 44 cities is 6.2°C; Hoofddorp is 0.4°C warmer than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 0.7°C to 5.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 79 mm to 69 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
Hoofddorp climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.9°C2.3°C | 2.3°C | 69 | 13.3 | 8.38 h |
| February | 6.3°C2.1°C | 2.1°C | 56 | 11.1 | 9.910 h |
| March | 8.9°C3.7°C | 3.7°C | 55 | 11.2 | 11.812 h |
| April | 12.5°C6.2°C | 6.2°C | 49 | 10.7 | 13.914 h |
| May | 15.8°C9.7°C | 9.7°C | 62 | 10.9 | 15.716 h |
| June | 18.3°C12.6°C | 12.6°C | 66 | 11.7 | 16.717 h |
| July | 20.5°C14.9°C | 14.9°C | 83 | 13.4 | 16.316 h |
| August | 20.7°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 90 | 13.3 | 14.715 h |
| September | 17.9°C13.0°C | 13.0°C | 81 | 12.8 | 12.713 h |
| October | 14.0°C9.6°C | 9.6°C | 84 | 13.7 | 10.711 h |
| November | 9.7°C6.1°C | 6.1°C | 75 | 14.1 | 8.89 h |
| December, selected | 6.6°C3.2°C | 3.2°C | 79 | 14.0 | 7.88 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
- Haarlem in DecemberThe Netherlands · 9 kmHigh 6.6°C · Low 3.5°C · 79 mm rain
- Amstelveen in DecemberThe Netherlands · 12 kmHigh 6.3°C · Low 2.6°C · 79 mm rain
- Amsterdam in DecemberThe Netherlands · 16 kmHigh 6.3°C · Low 2.7°C · 69 mm rain
- Zaandam in DecemberThe Netherlands · 18 kmHigh 6.5°C · Low 3.1°C · 79 mm rain
- Zaanstad in DecemberThe Netherlands · 19 kmHigh 6.6°C · Low 3.4°C · 79 mm rain
- Alphen aan den Rijn in DecemberThe Netherlands · 19 kmHigh 6.4°C · Low 2.5°C · 79 mm rain
- Leiden in DecemberThe Netherlands · 21 kmHigh 6.7°C · Low 3.3°C · 84 mm rain
- Purmerend in DecemberThe Netherlands · 29 kmHigh 6.4°C · Low 2.8°C · 68 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 Hoofddorp) is explained once on the Hoofddorp year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Amstelveen and Alphen aan den Rijn lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.