Climate averages 1991–2020
Birmingham weather
in December.
A cold, moderately wet month: the 11th warmest and the joint 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a cold month in Birmingham: daytime highs average 6.7°C and nights cool to about 2.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 62 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes December a moderately wet month (the joint 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 7 h 46 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is West Bromwich (8 km away). In December its highs average 6.6°C, about as warm as Birmingham, with 62 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Birmingham ranks joint 108th of 143 for the warmest December highs and joint 57th of 143 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 143 cities is 7.2°C; Birmingham is 0.5°C cooler than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 0.2°C to 6.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 62 mm to 55 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
Birmingham climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.5°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 55 | 12.3 | 8.38 h |
| February | 7.1°C1.4°C | 1.4°C | 47 | 10.3 | 9.910 h |
| March | 9.4°C2.5°C | 2.5°C | 50 | 10.8 | 11.812 h |
| April | 12.1°C4.1°C | 4.1°C | 56 | 11.9 | 13.914 h |
| May | 15.2°C7.1°C | 7.1°C | 61 | 11.5 | 15.716 h |
| June | 18.0°C10.1°C | 10.1°C | 68 | 11.5 | 16.717 h |
| July | 20.1°C12.2°C | 12.2°C | 65 | 11.8 | 16.316 h |
| August | 19.7°C12.1°C | 12.1°C | 62 | 11.1 | 14.715 h |
| September | 17.1°C10.0°C | 10.0°C | 57 | 9.8 | 12.713 h |
| October | 13.2°C7.4°C | 7.4°C | 67 | 11.2 | 10.711 h |
| November | 9.2°C4.2°C | 4.2°C | 65 | 11.9 | 8.89 h |
| December, selected | 6.7°C2.1°C | 2.1°C | 62 | 11.8 | 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
- West Bromwich in DecemberUnited Kingdom · 8 kmHigh 6.6°C · Low 2.0°C · 62 mm rain
- Solihull in DecemberUnited Kingdom · 11 kmHigh 6.8°C · Low 2.2°C · 61 mm rain
- Sutton Coldfield in DecemberUnited Kingdom · 11 kmHigh 6.7°C · Low 2.2°C · 61 mm rain
- Dudley in DecemberUnited Kingdom · 13 kmHigh 6.6°C · Low 2.0°C · 62 mm rain
- Walsall in DecemberUnited Kingdom · 13 kmHigh 6.8°C · Low 2.3°C · 62 mm rain
- Wolverhampton in DecemberUnited Kingdom · 19 kmHigh 6.6°C · Low 2.1°C · 62 mm rain
- Redditch in DecemberUnited Kingdom · 20 kmHigh 6.9°C · Low 2.1°C · 60 mm rain
- Tamworth in DecemberUnited Kingdom · 22 kmHigh 7.0°C · Low 2.3°C · 64 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 Birmingham) is explained once on the Birmingham year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Wolverhampton, Dudley and Walsall lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.