Climate averages 1991–2020
Los Angeles weather
in December.
A mild, moderately wet month: the coolest and the 9th driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a mild month in Los Angeles: daytime highs average 18.7°C and nights cool to about 6.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 52 mm of rain on roughly 5 days, which makes December a moderately wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 56 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is East Los Angeles (7 km away). In December its highs average 18.1°C, 0.6°C cooler than Los Angeles, with 52 mm of rain.
Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, Los Angeles ranks joint 44th of 498 for the warmest December highs and joint 150th of 498 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 498 cities is 10.5°C; Los Angeles is 8.1°C warmer than that mean.
From December to January, average highs rise by 0.2°C to 18.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 52 mm to 80 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
Los Angeles climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 18.9°C6.8°C | 6.8°C | 80 | 5.5 | 10.210 h |
| February | 19.1°C7.2°C | 7.2°C | 86 | 5.9 | 10.911 h |
| March | 20.7°C8.5°C | 8.5°C | 55 | 5.2 | 12.012 h |
| April | 23.1°C10.0°C | 10.0°C | 19 | 2.5 | 13.013 h |
| May | 25.0°C12.5°C | 12.5°C | 8.2 | 1.5 | 13.914 h |
| June | 28.0°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 2.0 | 0.3 | 14.414 h |
| July | 31.2°C18.0°C | 18.0°C | 1.8 | 0.4 | 14.214 h |
| August | 32.4°C18.7°C | 18.7°C | 0.3 | 0.1 | 13.413 h |
| September | 31.1°C17.3°C | 17.3°C | 3.2 | 0.5 | 12.412 h |
| October | 27.2°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 15 | 2.0 | 11.411 h |
| November | 22.9°C9.8°C | 9.8°C | 19 | 2.2 | 10.410 h |
| December, selected | 18.7°C6.6°C | 6.6°C | 52 | 4.6 | 9.910 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
- East Los Angeles in DecemberUnited States · 7 kmHigh 18.1°C · Low 5.9°C · 52 mm rain
- Glendale (California), United States in DecemberUnited States · 10 kmHigh 18.1°C · Low 6.3°C · 58 mm rain
- Pasadena (California), United States in DecemberUnited States · 14 kmHigh 17.6°C · Low 5.8°C · 58 mm rain
- Inglewood in DecemberUnited States · 14 kmHigh 18.4°C · Low 6.7°C · 52 mm rain
- Burbank in DecemberUnited States · 16 kmHigh 18.4°C · Low 6.3°C · 58 mm rain
- Downey in DecemberUnited States · 16 kmHigh 18.3°C · Low 6.1°C · 52 mm rain
- Compton in DecemberUnited States · 18 kmHigh 18.2°C · Low 6.5°C · 52 mm rain
- Hawthorne in DecemberUnited States · 18 kmHigh 18.2°C · Low 7.0°C · 52 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 Los Angeles) is explained once on the Los Angeles year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
East Los Angeles, Downey and Inglewood lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.