Climate averages 1991–2020
Fairfield 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.
December is a cool month in Fairfield: daytime highs average 13.6°C and nights cool to about 5.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 101 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes December a wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 34 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Vacaville (13 km away). In December its highs average 13.8°C, about as warm as Fairfield, with 101 mm of rain.
Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, Fairfield ranks joint 189th of 498 for the warmest December highs and joint 381st of 498 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 498 cities is 10.5°C; Fairfield is 3.0°C warmer than that mean.
From December to January, average highs rise by 0.1°C to 13.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 101 mm to 109 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
Fairfield climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 13.7°C5.4°C | 5.4°C | 109 | 9.2 | 9.810 h |
| February | 15.5°C6.4°C | 6.4°C | 108 | 9.1 | 10.711 h |
| March | 17.9°C7.7°C | 7.7°C | 79 | 8.2 | 11.912 h |
| April | 20.7°C9.1°C | 9.1°C | 34 | 4.8 | 13.213 h |
| May | 24.5°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 18 | 3.2 | 14.214 h |
| June | 28.4°C13.5°C | 13.5°C | 4.2 | 0.9 | 14.815 h |
| July | 29.9°C14.3°C | 14.3°C | 0.4 | 0.1 | 14.515 h |
| August | 29.8°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 1.0 | 0.2 | 13.614 h |
| September | 28.9°C14.3°C | 14.3°C | 1.5 | 0.4 | 12.512 h |
| October | 24.5°C12.5°C | 12.5°C | 24 | 2.7 | 11.211 h |
| November | 17.8°C8.7°C | 8.7°C | 50 | 5.8 | 10.110 h |
| December, selected | 13.6°C5.8°C | 5.8°C | 101 | 9.0 | 9.610 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
- Vacaville in DecemberUnited States · 13 kmHigh 13.8°C · Low 5.8°C · 101 mm rain
- Napa in DecemberUnited States · 22 kmHigh 14.2°C · Low 5.6°C · 110 mm rain
- Vallejo in DecemberUnited States · 25 kmHigh 13.9°C · Low 5.5°C · 95 mm rain
- Concord (California), United States in DecemberUnited States · 30 kmHigh 13.8°C · Low 6.0°C · 84 mm rain
- Antioch in DecemberUnited States · 34 kmHigh 13.7°C · Low 6.3°C · 87 mm rain
- Berkeley in DecemberUnited States · 47 kmHigh 13.6°C · Low 5.7°C · 87 mm rain
- San Ramon in DecemberUnited States · 52 kmHigh 13.6°C · Low 5.6°C · 81 mm rain
- Oakland in DecemberUnited States · 53 kmHigh 13.8°C · Low 6.0°C · 87 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 Fairfield) is explained once on the Fairfield year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Vacaville lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.