Climate averages 1991–2020
El Paso weather
in December.
A cool, fairly dry month: the coolest and the joint 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a cool month in El Paso: daytime highs average 13.8°C and nights cool to about 1.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 18 mm of rain on roughly 4 days, which makes December a fairly dry month (the joint 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 07 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Ciudad Juárez (5 km away). In December its highs average 13.9°C, about as warm as El Paso, with 18 mm of rain.
Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, El Paso ranks joint 177th of 498 for the warmest December highs and joint 10th of 498 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 498 cities is 10.5°C; El Paso is 3.2°C warmer than that mean.
From December to January, average highs rise by 0.4°C to 14.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 18 mm to 13 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
El Paso climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 14.1°C1.5°C | 1.5°C | 13 | 3.0 | 10.310 h |
| February | 17.4°C3.6°C | 3.6°C | 12 | 2.6 | 11.011 h |
| March | 21.7°C6.8°C | 6.8°C | 8.9 | 1.9 | 12.012 h |
| April | 26.2°C10.8°C | 10.8°C | 4.1 | 1.0 | 12.913 h |
| May | 30.9°C15.7°C | 15.7°C | 7.6 | 1.8 | 13.814 h |
| June | 35.6°C21.0°C | 21.0°C | 10 | 2.2 | 14.214 h |
| July | 34.7°C22.4°C | 22.4°C | 30 | 5.7 | 14.014 h |
| August | 33.9°C21.8°C | 21.8°C | 24 | 5.2 | 13.313 h |
| September | 30.7°C18.3°C | 18.3°C | 31 | 4.1 | 12.412 h |
| October | 25.8°C12.5°C | 12.5°C | 18 | 3.5 | 11.411 h |
| November | 19.0°C6.0°C | 6.0°C | 12 | 2.3 | 10.611 h |
| December, selected | 13.8°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 18 | 3.6 | 10.110 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
- Ciudad Juárez in DecemberMexico · 5 kmHigh 13.9°C · Low 1.7°C · 18 mm rain
- Las Cruces in DecemberUnited States · 67 kmHigh 13.3°C · Low 1.2°C · 19 mm rain
- Agua Prieta in DecemberMexico · 294 kmHigh 15.8°C · Low 2.5°C · 29 mm rain
- Chihuahua in DecemberMexico · 349 kmHigh 17.9°C · Low 3.8°C · 8.6 mm rain
- Albuquerque in DecemberUnited States · 370 kmHigh 8.0°C · Low -2.5°C · 18 mm rain
- Cuauhtémoc in DecemberMexico · 375 kmHigh 14.7°C · Low 1.2°C · 10 mm rain
- Rio Rancho in DecemberUnited States · 387 kmHigh 7.3°C · Low -3.2°C · 19 mm rain
- Odessa in DecemberUnited States · 389 kmHigh 14.6°C · Low 2.4°C · 24 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 El Paso) is explained once on the El Paso year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Ciudad Juárez lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.