Climate averages 1991–2020

Daly City weather
in December.

A cool, wet month: the coolest and the 10th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 12.6°C Daytime mean, December
Average low 6.8°C Night-time mean, December
Rainfall 108 mm 10 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 10 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Daly City · average highYear overview

December is a cool month in Daly City: daytime highs average 12.6°C and nights cool to about 6.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 108 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes December a wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 37 min on an average December day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is San Francisco (9 km away). In December its highs average 13.5°C, 0.9°C warmer than Daly City, with 108 mm of rain.

Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, Daly City ranks joint 225th of 498 for the warmest December highs and joint 422nd of 498 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 498 cities is 10.5°C; Daly City is 2.1°C warmer than that mean.

From December to January, average highs stay level at 12.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 108 mm to 109 mm.

The annual picture

December in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. 0510152025 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 1500

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Daly City climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Daly City, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 12.7°C6.5°C6.5°C10910.19.910 h
February 13.4°C7.2°C7.2°C1139.510.811 h
March 14.2°C8.1°C8.1°C819.311.912 h
April 15.1°C8.7°C8.7°C375.013.113 h
May 16.5°C10.0°C10.0°C182.814.214 h
June 18.3°C11.3°C11.3°C4.30.814.715 h
July 19.0°C12.1°C12.1°C0.30.114.514 h
August 19.6°C12.8°C12.8°C0.70.113.614 h
September 20.1°C12.6°C12.6°C1.50.412.512 h
October 18.8°C11.5°C11.5°C243.111.311 h
November 15.3°C8.9°C8.9°C566.110.210 h
December, selected 12.6°C6.8°C6.8°C10810.19.610 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

Distance from Daly City

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Daly City) is explained once on the Daly City year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.

San Francisco lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.