Weather in Chefchaouen in December

Shoulder season. December is shoulder season in Chefchaouen — cheaper, quieter, and a genuine gamble. Highs average 15.3 °C, lows 6.3 °C, and rain falls on 10 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

December ranks 9 of 12 in Chefchaouen: past the worst of the year but short of May, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain on 10 days, 4 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Pack for 15.3 °C days and 6.3 °C nights; the spread matters more here than any single number.

What the averages hide

The averages here are honest — no hidden extremes worth planning around. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest December day reached 24.1 °C and the coldest night fell to -1.6 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 65 mm — roughly 55% of the month's rain in one day.

This is the volatile part. December rainfall has ranged from 1 mm to 428 mm across the twenty years measured — a 427 mm spread around an average of 118 mm. The average is real but almost no individual December looks like it, so treat the figure as the middle of a wide range rather than a forecast.

Wind is light at 4.5 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 83%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How December sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 18.3 °C in November, 15.3 here, 14.3 in January. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in December

December sits at the dark end of Chefchaouen's year — 9.8 hours of daylight against 14.5 at midsummer, holding steady all month. Sightseeing days are genuinely shorter, and an itinerary built for summer will not fit.

An inland climate

With no coast nearby, the year swings a fair way — 31.7 °C between the warmest afternoons and the coldest nights, wider than any coastal city at this latitude would manage.

How busy it gets

Shoulder. The value months — prices ease off and you get the place closer to itself.

Crowd levels are estimated from climate desirability and school-holiday calendars, not from visitor numbers.

December in Chefchaouen versus nearby

If Chefchaouen is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Tangier is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day less rain. Fes is a better bet in December — 3.4 °C warmer, 1 day less rain.

So: December is a compromise. May is 24 points better and is what Chefchaouen is actually like at its best — worth moving the trip for if that is possible, and worth adjusting expectations for if it is not.

Every month in Chefchaouen

See all twelve months in Chefchaouen, or where else to go in December.