Climate averages 1991–2020
Menifee weather
in December.
A mild, moderately wet month: the coolest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a mild month in Menifee: daytime highs average 16.4°C and nights cool to about 3.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 61 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 58 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Perris (10 km away). In December its highs average 16.5°C, about as warm as Menifee, with 61 mm of rain.
Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, Menifee ranks joint 124th of 498 for the warmest December highs and joint 219th of 498 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 498 cities is 10.5°C; Menifee is 5.9°C warmer than that mean.
From December to January, average highs rise by 0.4°C to 16.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 61 mm to 83 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
Menifee climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 16.8°C4.0°C | 4.0°C | 83 | 6.4 | 10.210 h |
| February | 17.0°C4.9°C | 4.9°C | 103 | 7.0 | 11.011 h |
| March | 18.8°C6.7°C | 6.7°C | 63 | 6.3 | 12.012 h |
| April | 21.2°C8.8°C | 8.8°C | 31 | 4.4 | 13.013 h |
| May | 24.0°C11.9°C | 11.9°C | 14 | 2.5 | 13.914 h |
| June | 28.4°C15.4°C | 15.4°C | 3.4 | 0.6 | 14.414 h |
| July | 31.8°C19.1°C | 19.1°C | 3.7 | 0.9 | 14.214 h |
| August | 32.7°C19.8°C | 19.8°C | 2.2 | 0.6 | 13.413 h |
| September | 30.8°C17.2°C | 17.2°C | 6.0 | 1.1 | 12.412 h |
| October | 25.8°C12.2°C | 12.2°C | 21 | 2.8 | 11.411 h |
| November | 20.8°C7.4°C | 7.4°C | 30 | 3.3 | 10.410 h |
| December, selected | 16.4°C3.8°C | 3.8°C | 61 | 5.2 | 10.010 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
- Perris in DecemberUnited States · 10 kmHigh 16.5°C · Low 4.0°C · 61 mm rain
- Hemet in DecemberUnited States · 16 kmHigh 16.2°C · Low 3.9°C · 57 mm rain
- Murrieta in DecemberUnited States · 20 kmHigh 17.6°C · Low 4.8°C · 52 mm rain
- Moreno Valley in DecemberUnited States · 25 kmHigh 16.3°C · Low 4.2°C · 55 mm rain
- Temecula in DecemberUnited States · 26 kmHigh 17.9°C · Low 5.3°C · 52 mm rain
- Riverside in DecemberUnited States · 34 kmHigh 17.1°C · Low 4.5°C · 67 mm rain
- Redlands in DecemberUnited States · 37 kmHigh 16.4°C · Low 4.9°C · 55 mm rain
- Corona in DecemberUnited States · 42 kmHigh 18.0°C · Low 5.6°C · 67 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 Menifee) is explained once on the Menifee year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Perris lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.