Where to Go in December

December across 279 indexable cities in this dataset: 73 average above 24°C, 85 sit between 15°C and 24°C, and 121 sit at 15°C or below. The hottest monthly average is Guayaquil at 29.3°C; the coldest is Novosibirsk at -17.3°C.

Rain that month spans 0 mm in Kano to 393 mm in Manila. The sample mean temperature is 14.7°C and the sample mean rainfall is 68 mm.

Hemisphere and monsoon in December

Northern-hemisphere cities average 12.4°C in December; southern-hemisphere cities average 24.0°C. That split is the usual summer/winter reversal, not a scoring trick.

Monsoon-type cities that are inside their wet season this month include Mbuji-Mayi, Kananga, Kampala, Harare, Lusaka, Lubumbashi, and 23 more. 69 monsoon-type cities are on the dry side of their year in December.