Chaparral Weather in December

NASA POWER reanalysis for the half-degree grid cell around Chaparral, 1991-2020; a grid cell is an area average and can differ from a thermometer in town by several degrees

Average highs run from 23°C on December 1 to 24°C on December 31, and lows from 15°C to 15°C. Normal precipitation for the month is 102 mm over about 19 wet days.

December day by day

The normal high and low for each date, in °C.

Normal low
Normal high
Reanalysis extreme high
Reanalysis extreme low

December at a glance

Average high: 24°C
Average low: 15°C
Precipitation: 102 mm
Reanalysis high: 29°CDec 24, 2015
Reanalysis low: 11°CDec 31, 2002
Daylight: 11 h 56 min to 11 h 54 min
Cloud cover: 75%
Humidity: 81%
Dew point: 15°C
Wind: 6.8 km/h

Every day of the month

A wet day has at least 1 mm of precipitation in the reanalysis.

Date	Normal high	Normal low	Reanalysis high	Reanalysis low	Chance wet
Dec 1	23°C	15°C	27°C 1991	13°C 1991	66%
Dec 2	23°C	15°C	27°C 2009	14°C 2000	66%
Dec 3	23°C	15°C	27°C 2000	13°C 2014	65%
Dec 4	23°C	15°C	28°C 2009	13°C 2002	64%
Dec 5	23°C	15°C	27°C 2009	13°C 1997	63%
Dec 6	23°C	15°C	27°C 1997	13°C 2010	64%
Dec 7	23°C	15°C	26°C 2002	14°C 1996	64%
Dec 8	23°C	15°C	27°C 2015	13°C 2018	65%
Dec 9	23°C	15°C	27°C 2015	13°C 2018	64%
Dec 10	23°C	15°C	27°C 2015	13°C 2018	64%
Dec 11	23°C	15°C	28°C 2015	14°C 2018	65%
Dec 12	23°C	15°C	28°C 2015	13°C 2002	64%
Dec 13	23°C	15°C	27°C 1997	13°C 1994	64%
Dec 14	23°C	15°C	28°C 2009	14°C 2009	62%
Dec 15	23°C	15°C	28°C 2009	13°C 1998	62%
Dec 16	23°C	15°C	28°C 2009	13°C 1994	59%
Dec 17	23°C	15°C	26°C 1997	12°C 2003	58%
Dec 18	23°C	15°C	25°C 2017	13°C 2017	58%
Dec 19	23°C	15°C	26°C 2015	13°C 2002	58%
Dec 20	23°C	15°C	28°C 2015	13°C 1995	56%
Dec 21	24°C	15°C	28°C 2015	13°C 2000	53%
Dec 22	24°C	15°C	28°C 2015	12°C 2002	52%
Dec 23	24°C	15°C	28°C 2015	12°C 2014	50%
Dec 24	24°C	15°C	29°C 2015	13°C 2015	48%
Dec 25	24°C	15°C	28°C 2015	12°C 2013	45%
Dec 26	24°C	15°C	28°C 2015	12°C 2018	43%
Dec 27	24°C	15°C	28°C 2015	13°C 1993	41%
Dec 28	24°C	15°C	28°C 1997	12°C 1993	40%
Dec 29	24°C	15°C	29°C 2015	13°C 1993	40%
Dec 30	24°C	15°C	28°C 2015	14°C 2002	41%
Dec 31	24°C	15°C	26°C 2001	11°C 2002	42%

Chance of rain

Chance of a wet day

Sunrise and sunset

Times for 2026, local time (GMT-5).

December 1: sunrise 5:53 AM, sunset 5:49 PM
December 31: sunrise 6:08 AM, sunset 6:02 PM

Every day of December: sun and moon

Other months

Sources

Cloud, humidity, wind and sunshine, and temperature and precipitation: NASA POWER (MERRA-2, CERES and GEWEX SRB), 1991-2020. The data was obtained from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center's Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) project funded through the NASA Earth Science Division: POWER Daily API v2, accessed 2026-09-24. Sun and moon: computed with the NOAA solar equations and Meeus.