Climate averages 1991–2020
Tunis weather
in December.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 10th warmest and the joint 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a mild month in Tunis: daytime highs average 16.3°C and nights cool to about 9.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 46 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes December a moderately wet month (the joint 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 42 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Sīdī Ḥusayn (8 km away). In December its highs average 16.5°C, about as warm as Tunis, with 37 mm of rain.
Among the 22 cities listed in Tunisia, Tunis ranks joint 15th of 22 for the warmest December highs and joint 17th of 22 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 22 cities is 16.5°C; Tunis is 0.2°C cooler than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 1.2°C to 15.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 46 mm to 47 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
Tunis climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 15.1°C8.4°C | 8.4°C | 47 | 8.6 | 9.910 h |
| February | 15.4°C8.2°C | 8.2°C | 49 | 8.8 | 10.811 h |
| March | 17.9°C9.8°C | 9.8°C | 46 | 7.6 | 11.912 h |
| April | 20.6°C11.9°C | 11.9°C | 42 | 7.7 | 13.113 h |
| May | 24.7°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 24 | 4.4 | 14.114 h |
| June | 29.3°C18.6°C | 18.6°C | 10 | 1.6 | 14.615 h |
| July | 32.4°C21.3°C | 21.3°C | 1.8 | 0.3 | 14.414 h |
| August | 32.8°C22.2°C | 22.2°C | 8.9 | 2.4 | 13.614 h |
| September | 28.8°C20.4°C | 20.4°C | 38 | 5.6 | 12.512 h |
| October | 25.0°C17.4°C | 17.4°C | 46 | 7.2 | 11.311 h |
| November | 20.0°C13.2°C | 13.2°C | 46 | 7.6 | 10.210 h |
| December, selected | 16.3°C9.8°C | 9.8°C | 46 | 8.3 | 9.710 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
- Sīdī Ḥusayn in DecemberTunisia · 8 kmHigh 16.5°C · Low 9.5°C · 37 mm rain
- Sukrah in DecemberTunisia · 10 kmHigh 16.1°C · Low 10.8°C · 72 mm rain
- El Mourouj in DecemberTunisia · 12 kmHigh 16.4°C · Low 8.9°C · 46 mm rain
- La Marsa in DecemberTunisia · 16 kmHigh 16.1°C · Low 11.3°C · 72 mm rain
- Bizerte in DecemberTunisia · 57 kmHigh 15.8°C · Low 11.6°C · 67 mm rain
- Hammamet in DecemberTunisia · 62 kmHigh 16.4°C · Low 11.5°C · 39 mm rain
- Nabeul in DecemberTunisia · 65 kmHigh 16.3°C · Low 12.0°C · 46 mm rain
- Sousse in DecemberTunisia · 118 kmHigh 17.7°C · Low 8.9°C · 33 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 Tunis) is explained once on the Tunis year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
El Mourouj lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.