Weather in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in December

Prime time. If you get to pick your dates, December is the one. Highs average 20.1 °C, lows 18.1 °C, and rain falls on 5 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria barely has seasons. December scores 91 out of 100 against a best of 100 in June — a gap small enough that the month you choose matters far less here than the week you choose.

Rain falls on only 5 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. Nothing specialised needed — this is the month you pack for the trip rather than for the weather.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: it never really gets hot: not one day in an average December reaches 30 °C; the day barely swings — 2 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest December day reached 23.7 °C and the coldest night fell to 15.6 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 33 mm — roughly 118% of the month's rain in one day.

This is the volatile part. December rainfall has ranged from 4 mm to 102 mm across the twenty years measured — a 98 mm spread around an average of 28 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 sits around 18.5 km/h — a steady breeze rather than a nuisance, and welcome on the warmer days, and humidity runs at 75%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How December sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 21.9 °C in November, 20.1 here, 18.9 in January. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in December

December sits at the dark end of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria's year — 10.4 hours of daylight against 13.9 at midsummer, holding steady all month. Sightseeing days are genuinely shorter, and an itinerary built for summer will not fit.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 20.7 °C in December — swimmable, but it takes a moment to commit. The sea peaks at 23.9 °C in September and bottoms out at 18.8 °C — water lags the air by a month or two, which is why the best swimming often comes after the best weather.

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 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria versus nearby

If Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Funchal is the weaker option in December — 2.6 °C cooler, 5 days more rain. Agadir is close enough to be a coin toss — 3.3 °C warmer, the same number of rain days.

So: December works, with June the better month by 9 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

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