Climate averages 1991–2020
Mérida, Venezuela weather
in December.
A warm, wet month: the 11th warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a warm month in Mérida, Venezuela: daytime highs average 23.3°C and nights cool to about 15.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 140 mm of rain on roughly 24 days, which makes December a wet month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 38 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Ejido (9 km away, marked approximate). In December its highs average 24.2°C, 0.9°C warmer than Mérida, Venezuela, with 140 mm of rain.
Among the 65 cities listed in Venezuela, Mérida, Venezuela ranks 65th of 65 for the warmest December highs and joint 61st of 65 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 65 cities is 29.1°C; Mérida, Venezuela is 5.8°C cooler than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 0.1°C to 23.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 140 mm to 108 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
Mérida, Venezuela climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 23.2°C15.5°C | 15.5°C | 108 | 22.8 | 11.712 h |
| February | 23.6°C16.0°C | 16.0°C | 127 | 23.1 | 11.812 h |
| March | 23.9°C16.6°C | 16.6°C | 215 | 27.7 | 12.112 h |
| April | 24.2°C17.0°C | 17.0°C | 277 | 27.8 | 12.312 h |
| May | 24.4°C17.0°C | 17.0°C | 224 | 27.8 | 12.513 h |
| June | 24.2°C16.5°C | 16.5°C | 151 | 24.2 | 12.613 h |
| July | 24.0°C16.0°C | 16.0°C | 147 | 26.1 | 12.613 h |
| August | 24.5°C16.2°C | 16.2°C | 146 | 25.4 | 12.412 h |
| September | 24.7°C16.4°C | 16.4°C | 143 | 24.7 | 12.212 h |
| October | 24.3°C16.5°C | 16.5°C | 200 | 27.8 | 11.912 h |
| November | 23.7°C16.3°C | 16.3°C | 203 | 27.4 | 11.712 h |
| December, selected | 23.3°C15.7°C | 15.7°C | 140 | 24.0 | 11.612 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
- Ejido (approximate) in DecemberVenezuela · 9 kmHigh 24.2°C · Low 16.7°C · 140 mm rain
- Socopó in DecemberVenezuela · 54 kmHigh 28.9°C · Low 19.7°C · 24 mm rain
- San Carlos del Zulia in DecemberVenezuela · 96 kmHigh 29.1°C · Low 23.7°C · 200 mm rain
- San Timoteo in DecemberVenezuela · 135 kmHigh 28.7°C · Low 23.6°C · 93 mm rain
- Táriba in DecemberVenezuela · 143 kmHigh 27.0°C · Low 18.8°C · 59 mm rain
- Rubio in DecemberVenezuela · 163 kmHigh 26.4°C · Low 17.6°C · 59 mm rain
- Cúcuta in DecemberColombia · 165 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 20.6°C · 113 mm rain
- Guanare in DecemberVenezuela · 166 kmHigh 30.7°C · Low 21.8°C · 38 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 Mérida) is explained once on the Mérida, Venezuela year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Ejido lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.