Climate averages 1991–2020
Meridian weather
in December.
A cold, moderately wet month: the coolest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a cold month in Meridian: daytime highs average 3.6°C and nights cool to about -3.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 42 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes December a moderately wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 00 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Boise (15 km away). In December its highs average 3.7°C, about as warm as Meridian, with 50 mm of rain.
Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, Meridian ranks joint 405th of 498 for the warmest December highs and joint 90th of 498 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 498 cities is 10.5°C; Meridian is 6.9°C cooler than that mean.
From December to January, average highs rise by 0.1°C to 3.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 42 mm to 40 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
Meridian climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.8°C-4.3°C | -4.3°C | 40 | 9.0 | 9.39 h |
| February | 7.0°C-2.5°C | -2.5°C | 26 | 7.4 | 10.510 h |
| March | 12.1°C0.8°C | 0.8°C | 31 | 8.6 | 11.912 h |
| April | 16.1°C3.8°C | 3.8°C | 28 | 6.4 | 13.413 h |
| May | 21.8°C8.6°C | 8.6°C | 29 | 5.9 | 14.715 h |
| June | 26.6°C13.1°C | 13.1°C | 16 | 3.4 | 15.415 h |
| July | 32.7°C18.1°C | 18.1°C | 3.4 | 1.0 | 15.115 h |
| August | 31.8°C17.4°C | 17.4°C | 3.4 | 0.9 | 14.014 h |
| September | 26.1°C12.4°C | 12.4°C | 9.8 | 2.0 | 12.613 h |
| October | 17.6°C6.0°C | 6.0°C | 20 | 4.2 | 11.111 h |
| November | 9.3°C0.0°C | 0.0°C | 30 | 7.3 | 9.710 h |
| December, selected | 3.6°C-3.8°C | -3.8°C | 42 | 9.3 | 9.09 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
- Boise in DecemberUnited States · 15 kmHigh 3.7°C · Low -4.1°C · 50 mm rain
- Nampa in DecemberUnited States · 16 kmHigh 4.4°C · Low -2.9°C · 42 mm rain
- Kennewick in DecemberUnited States · 361 kmHigh 5.4°C · Low -1.4°C · 35 mm rain
- Tri-Cities in DecemberUnited States · 367 kmHigh 5.6°C · Low -1.2°C · 35 mm rain
- Bend in DecemberUnited States · 398 kmHigh 3.2°C · Low -4.9°C · 96 mm rain
- Missoula in DecemberUnited States · 408 kmHigh -0.1°C · Low -7.4°C · 51 mm precipitation
- Ogden in DecemberUnited States · 449 kmHigh 1.8°C · Low -7.9°C · 55 mm precipitation
- Spokane Valley in DecemberUnited States · 456 kmHigh 1.7°C · Low -4.3°C · 85 mm precipitation
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 Meridian) is explained once on the Meridian year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Nampa lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.