Climate averages 1991–2020

Toms River weather
in December.

A cold, wet month: the 10th warmest and the joint 9th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 7.4°C Daytime mean, December
Average low 0.8°C Night-time mean, December
Rainfall 101 mm 10 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 9 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Toms River · average highYear overview

December is a cold month in Toms River: daytime highs average 7.4°C and nights cool to about 0.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 101 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes December a wet month (the joint 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 24 min on an average December day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Brick (13 km away). In December its highs average 7.2°C, about as warm as Toms River, with 101 mm of rain.

Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, Toms River ranks joint 290th 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; Toms River is 3.2°C cooler than that mean.

From December to January, average highs fall by 2.6°C to 4.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 101 mm to 83 mm.

The annual picture

December in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. -505101520253035 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 1500

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Toms River climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Toms River, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 4.7°C-2.3°C-2.3°C839.19.710 h
February 6.0°C-2.0°C-2.0°C799.110.711 h
March 9.8°C1.5°C1.5°C10510.411.912 h
April 15.7°C6.9°C6.9°C8710.713.213 h
May 20.9°C12.4°C12.4°C8410.614.414 h
June 26.1°C17.9°C17.9°C9510.915.015 h
July 29.1°C21.3°C21.3°C10111.714.715 h
August 27.9°C20.6°C20.6°C11411.413.714 h
September 24.2°C17.3°C17.3°C959.312.512 h
October 18.3°C11.2°C11.2°C958.311.211 h
November 12.4°C5.5°C5.5°C778.010.010 h
December, selected 7.4°C0.8°C0.8°C1019.79.49 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

Distance from Toms River

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Toms River) is explained once on the Toms River year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.

Brick lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.