Climate averages 1991–2020
Liverpool weather
in December.
A cold, wet month: the joint 10th warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a cold month in Liverpool: daytime highs average 7.3°C and nights cool to about 3.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 121 mm of rain on roughly 17 days, which makes December a wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 7 h 36 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is St Helens (17 km away). In December its highs average 7.2°C, about as warm as Liverpool, with 98 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Liverpool ranks joint 63rd of 143 for the warmest December highs and 137th of 143 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 143 cities is 7.2°C; Liverpool is 0.2°C warmer than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 0.4°C to 6.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 121 mm to 91 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
Liverpool climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.9°C3.1°C | 3.1°C | 91 | 16.3 | 8.18 h |
| February | 7.3°C2.9°C | 2.9°C | 76 | 13.9 | 9.810 h |
| March | 9.1°C3.8°C | 3.8°C | 72 | 13.7 | 11.812 h |
| April | 11.5°C5.5°C | 5.5°C | 67 | 12.7 | 14.014 h |
| May | 14.5°C8.4°C | 8.4°C | 69 | 12.6 | 15.916 h |
| June | 16.9°C11.3°C | 11.3°C | 83 | 13.5 | 16.917 h |
| July | 18.6°C13.2°C | 13.2°C | 87 | 15.9 | 16.516 h |
| August | 18.4°C13.3°C | 13.3°C | 99 | 16.4 | 14.815 h |
| September | 16.5°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 96 | 14.1 | 12.813 h |
| October | 13.2°C8.8°C | 8.8°C | 115 | 16.4 | 10.611 h |
| November | 9.6°C5.9°C | 5.9°C | 115 | 17.9 | 8.79 h |
| December, selected | 7.3°C3.6°C | 3.6°C | 121 | 17.0 | 7.68 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
- St Helens in DecemberUnited Kingdom · 17 kmHigh 7.2°C · Low 3.0°C · 98 mm rain
- Chester in DecemberUnited Kingdom · 25 kmHigh 7.2°C · Low 2.7°C · 74 mm rain
- Southport in DecemberUnited Kingdom · 26 kmHigh 7.6°C · Low 4.2°C · 139 mm rain
- Warrington in DecemberUnited Kingdom · 26 kmHigh 7.0°C · Low 2.6°C · 99 mm rain
- Wigan in DecemberUnited Kingdom · 27 kmHigh 7.1°C · Low 2.7°C · 98 mm rain
- Bolton in DecemberUnited Kingdom · 41 kmHigh 6.5°C · Low 2.1°C · 99 mm rain
- Preston in DecemberUnited Kingdom · 43 kmHigh 7.0°C · Low 2.9°C · 123 mm rain
- Blackpool in DecemberUnited Kingdom · 45 kmHigh 7.4°C · Low 4.2°C · 139 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 Liverpool) is explained once on the Liverpool year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.