Climate averages 1991–2020
Hayward weather
in December.
A cool, moderately 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 Hayward: daytime highs average 13.8°C and nights cool to about 6.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 81 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes December a moderately 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 Union City (10 km away). In December its highs average 14.0°C, about as warm as Hayward, with 83 mm of rain.
Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, Hayward ranks joint 177th of 498 for the warmest December highs and joint 281st of 498 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 498 cities is 10.5°C; Hayward is 3.3°C warmer than that mean.
From December to January, average highs rise by 0.2°C to 14.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 81 mm to 89 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
Hayward climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 14.0°C5.8°C | 5.8°C | 89 | 8.9 | 9.910 h |
| February | 15.2°C6.8°C | 6.8°C | 94 | 9.0 | 10.811 h |
| March | 17.0°C8.0°C | 8.0°C | 70 | 8.4 | 11.912 h |
| April | 18.9°C9.0°C | 9.0°C | 33 | 4.8 | 13.113 h |
| May | 21.7°C10.8°C | 10.8°C | 17 | 3.0 | 14.214 h |
| June | 24.9°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 3.4 | 0.9 | 14.715 h |
| July | 26.5°C14.1°C | 14.1°C | 0.7 | 0.2 | 14.514 h |
| August | 26.7°C14.5°C | 14.5°C | 1.4 | 0.2 | 13.614 h |
| September | 26.5°C14.3°C | 14.3°C | 1.7 | 0.4 | 12.512 h |
| October | 23.2°C12.5°C | 12.5°C | 21 | 2.9 | 11.311 h |
| November | 17.5°C9.0°C | 9.0°C | 42 | 5.5 | 10.210 h |
| December, selected | 13.8°C6.2°C | 6.2°C | 81 | 8.7 | 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
- Union City in DecemberUnited States · 10 kmHigh 14.0°C · Low 6.3°C · 83 mm rain
- San Ramon in DecemberUnited States · 15 kmHigh 13.6°C · Low 5.6°C · 81 mm rain
- Fremont in DecemberUnited States · 16 kmHigh 14.0°C · Low 6.5°C · 83 mm rain
- Pleasanton in DecemberUnited States · 18 kmHigh 13.9°C · Low 5.8°C · 79 mm rain
- Oakland in DecemberUnited States · 23 kmHigh 13.8°C · Low 6.0°C · 87 mm rain
- San Mateo in DecemberUnited States · 25 kmHigh 13.7°C · Low 7.2°C · 94 mm rain
- Redwood City in DecemberUnited States · 25 kmHigh 13.8°C · Low 7.5°C · 94 mm rain
- Livermore in DecemberUnited States · 28 kmHigh 13.6°C · Low 5.5°C · 79 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 Hayward) is explained once on the Hayward year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
San Ramon lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.