Weather in Wuhan in December

Shoulder season. December is shoulder season in Wuhan — cheaper, quieter, and a genuine gamble. Highs sit at 10.9 °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 Wuhan: past the worst of the year but short of October, 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. Layers, and a genuinely waterproof outer — at 10.9 °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 21.1 °C and the coldest night fell to -6.5 °C.

This is the volatile part. December rainfall has ranged from 3 mm to 94 mm across the twenty years measured — a 91 mm spread around an average of 34 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 9.1 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 71%.

How December sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 6.7 °C cooler than November, with January dropping another 1.8 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip.

Daylight in December

December sits at the dark end of Wuhan'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 — 32.3 °C between the warmest afternoons and the coldest nights, wider than any coastal city at this latitude would manage.

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 Wuhan versus nearby

If Wuhan is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Nanjing is the weaker option in December — within a degree on temperature, 1 day more rain. Hangzhou is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 2 days more rain.

So: December is a compromise. October is 23 points better and is what Wuhan 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 Wuhan

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