Climate averages 1991–2020
Worthing weather
in December.
A cool, wet month: the 10th warmest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a cool month in Worthing: daytime highs average 8.5°C and nights cool to about 4.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 99 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes December a wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 8 h 03 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Hove (15 km away). In December its highs average 8.4°C, about as warm as Worthing, with 103 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Worthing ranks joint 5th of 143 for the warmest December highs and joint 119th of 143 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 143 cities is 7.2°C; Worthing is 1.3°C warmer than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 0.6°C to 7.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 99 mm to 87 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
Worthing climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7.9°C4.1°C | 4.1°C | 87 | 13.7 | 8.58 h |
| February | 7.9°C3.7°C | 3.7°C | 62 | 11.2 | 10.010 h |
| March | 9.7°C4.8°C | 4.8°C | 49 | 10.0 | 11.812 h |
| April | 12.1°C6.4°C | 6.4°C | 49 | 9.4 | 13.814 h |
| May | 15.0°C9.2°C | 9.2°C | 47 | 8.8 | 15.515 h |
| June | 17.7°C12.0°C | 12.0°C | 49 | 8.8 | 16.416 h |
| July | 19.8°C14.2°C | 14.2°C | 49 | 8.9 | 16.016 h |
| August | 19.9°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 63 | 9.3 | 14.515 h |
| September | 17.9°C12.8°C | 12.8°C | 66 | 10.5 | 12.713 h |
| October | 14.6°C10.3°C | 10.3°C | 105 | 14.0 | 10.811 h |
| November | 11.0°C7.1°C | 7.1°C | 111 | 15.1 | 9.09 h |
| December, selected | 8.5°C4.8°C | 4.8°C | 99 | 13.4 | 8.08 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
- Hove in DecemberUnited Kingdom · 15 kmHigh 8.4°C · Low 4.7°C · 103 mm rain
- Brighton in DecemberUnited Kingdom · 17 kmHigh 8.3°C · Low 4.6°C · 103 mm rain
- Crawley in DecemberUnited Kingdom · 35 kmHigh 7.6°C · Low 3.0°C · 71 mm rain
- Eastbourne in DecemberUnited Kingdom · 47 kmHigh 8.7°C · Low 5.8°C · 109 mm rain
- Guildford in DecemberUnited Kingdom · 48 kmHigh 7.8°C · Low 2.9°C · 62 mm rain
- Portsmouth in DecemberUnited Kingdom · 50 kmHigh 8.4°C · Low 4.3°C · 92 mm rain
- Woking in DecemberUnited Kingdom · 57 kmHigh 7.7°C · Low 2.8°C · 62 mm rain
- Sutton in DecemberUnited Kingdom · 60 kmHigh 7.5°C · Low 2.7°C · 63 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 Worthing) is explained once on the Worthing year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.