Weather in Évora in December

A good month. December works. It is not the peak, but nothing about it fights you. Highs sit at 14.7 °C and the day is short; this is an indoors-with-excursions month, not an outdoors-all-day one.

December ranks 10 of 12 — near the bottom of Évora's year. May is the month that works, and the swing between the two is 41 points, which is a different holiday rather than a slightly better one. Worth keeping in perspective: December is the weakest month of Évora's year and it is still a perfectly good one. The downside here is small.

Rain on 9 days, 2 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Layers, and a genuinely waterproof outer — at 14.7 °C the difference between a good day and a miserable one is entirely down to what you are wearing.

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 21 °C and the coldest night fell to -5.5 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 36 mm — roughly 61% of the month's rain in one day.

December is moderately variable: 12 mm in the driest year against 184 mm in the wettest, around an average of 59 mm. Roughly two Decembers in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 9.3 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 85%, which at 14.7 °C means damp rather than muggy — the kind of cold that gets into a coat and stays there.

How December sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 17.7 °C in November, 14.7 here, 14.2 in January. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in December

December sits at the dark end of Évora's year — 9.5 hours of daylight against 14.8 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 — 30.1 °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 Évora versus nearby

If Évora is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Lisbon is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day more rain. Leiria is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 2 days more rain.

So: December is a compromise. May is 23 points better and is what Évora 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 Évora

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