Weather in Tallahassee in December

A good month. December is a solid month to be in Tallahassee. Highs average 18.3 °C, lows 6.1 °C, and rain falls on 10 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

December ranks 6 of 12 in Tallahassee: 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. 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; 5 nights fall below freezing. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest December day reached 29.4 °C and the coldest night fell to -6.2 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 84 mm — roughly 71% of the month's rain in one day.

December is moderately variable: 25 mm in the driest year against 298 mm in the wettest, around an average of 118 mm. Roughly two Decembers in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 0.9 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 82%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How December sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 4.1 °C cooler than November, with January dropping another 2 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip.

Daylight in December

December sits at the dark end of Tallahassee's year — 10.2 hours of daylight against 14.1 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 — 29.2 °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 Tallahassee versus nearby

If Tallahassee is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Jacksonville is a better bet in December — within a degree on temperature, 2 days less rain. Montgomery is the weaker option in December — 3.2 °C cooler, the same number of rain days.

So: December works, with November the better month by 12 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

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