Weather in Sevilla in December

Prime time. December is about as good as Sevilla gets. Highs average 17 °C, lows 6.6 °C, and rain falls on 6 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

December ranks 7 of 12 in Sevilla: past the worst of the year but short of March, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain falls on only 6 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. Pack for 17 °C days and 6.6 °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 23.3 °C and the coldest night fell to -2.2 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 49 mm — roughly 86% of the month's rain in one day.

This is the volatile part. December rainfall has ranged from 7 mm to 230 mm across the twenty years measured — a 223 mm spread around an average of 57 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 8.8 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 81%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How December sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 20.3 °C in November, 17 here, 16.3 in January. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in December

December sits at the dark end of Sevilla'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 — 33 °C between the warmest afternoons and the coldest nights, wider than any coastal city at this latitude would manage.

How busy it gets

Peak season. Expect the highest prices of the year and to be booking well ahead.

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

December in Sevilla versus nearby

If Sevilla is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Málaga is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 2 days more rain. Faro is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 2 days more rain.

So: December is effectively as good as it gets here — 6 points behind March, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.

Every month in Sevilla

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