Weather in Granada in December

A good month. December is a solid month to be in Granada. Highs sit at 13.7 °C and the day is short; this is an indoors-with-excursions month, not an outdoors-all-day one.

December ranks 11 of 12 — near the bottom of Granada's year. May is the month that works, and the swing between the two is 29 points, which is a different holiday rather than a slightly better one. Worth keeping in perspective: December is the weakest month of Granada's year and it is still a perfectly good one. The downside here is small.

Rain falls on only 6 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. Layers, and a genuinely waterproof outer — at 13.7 °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 23 °C and the coldest night fell to -1.3 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 33 mm — roughly 62% of the month's rain in one day.

This is the volatile part. December rainfall has ranged from 1 mm to 221 mm across the twenty years measured — a 220 mm spread around an average of 53 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 9.3 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 76%, which at 13.7 °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: 16.3 °C in November, 13.7 here, 12.9 in January. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in December

December sits at the dark end of Granada's year — 9.6 hours of daylight against 14.7 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 — 27.7 °C between the warmest afternoons and the coldest nights, wider than any coastal city at this latitude would manage.

How busy it gets

Quiet. Few other visitors, cheaper rooms, and a real chance some seasonal operators are shut.

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

December in Granada versus nearby

If Granada is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Málaga is close enough to be a coin toss — 2.7 °C warmer, 2 days more rain. Sevilla is a better bet in December — 3.3 °C warmer, the same number of rain days.

So: December is a compromise. May is 25 points better and is what Granada 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 Granada

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