Weather in Shreveport in December

Shoulder season. December is shoulder season in Shreveport — cheaper, quieter, and a genuine gamble. Highs sit at 14.6 °C and the day is short; this is an indoors-with-excursions month, not an outdoors-all-day one.

December ranks 7 of 12 in Shreveport: past the worst of the year but short of November, 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. Layers, and a genuinely waterproof outer — at 14.6 °C the difference between a good day and a miserable one is entirely down to what you are wearing.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: 9 nights fall below freezing. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest December day reached 27 °C and the coldest night fell to -7.2 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 67 mm — roughly 54% of the month's rain in one day.

December is moderately variable: 16 mm in the driest year against 278 mm in the wettest, around an average of 123 mm. Roughly two Decembers in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 2.5 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 82%, which at 14.6 °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: 19.9 °C in November, 14.6 here, 13.2 in January. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in December

December sits at the dark end of Shreveport's year — 10 hours of daylight against 14.3 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 — 33.9 °C between the warmest afternoons and the coldest nights, wider than any coastal city at this latitude would manage.

How busy it gets

Busy. Popular without being frantic; book the things you care about, improvise the rest.

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

December in Shreveport versus nearby

If Shreveport is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Little Rock is close enough to be a coin toss — 2.8 °C cooler, 1 day less rain. Dallas is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 4 days less rain.

So: December is a compromise. November is 22 points better and is what Shreveport is actually like at its best — worth moving the trip for if that is possible, and worth adjusting expectations for if it is not.

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