Cancún Weather in December

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

Average highs run from 27°C on December 1 to 27°C on December 31, and lows from 23°C to 23°C. Normal precipitation for the month is 71 mm over about 9 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: 27°C
Average low: 23°C
Precipitation: 71 mm
Reanalysis high: 30°CDec 6, 2016
Reanalysis low: 18°CDec 14, 2010
Daylight: 10 h 57 min to 10 h 53 min
Cloud cover: 49%
Humidity: 78%
Dew point: 20°C
Wind: 12.2 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	27°C	23°C	30°C 2018	20°C 2011	36%
Dec 2	27°C	23°C	30°C 2018	20°C 2008	36%
Dec 3	27°C	23°C	30°C 2018	19°C 2008	37%
Dec 4	27°C	23°C	30°C 2018	19°C 2008	38%
Dec 5	27°C	23°C	30°C 2016	20°C 2010	37%
Dec 6	27°C	23°C	30°C 2016	20°C 2010	36%
Dec 7	27°C	23°C	30°C 2016	19°C 2010	37%
Dec 8	27°C	23°C	30°C 2016	19°C 2010	36%
Dec 9	27°C	23°C	30°C 2018	20°C 2010	36%
Dec 10	27°C	23°C	30°C 2012	19°C 2010	38%
Dec 11	27°C	23°C	29°C 2019	20°C 2010	39%
Dec 12	27°C	23°C	29°C 2016	19°C 2008	38%
Dec 13	27°C	23°C	29°C 2018	18°C 2010	38%
Dec 14	27°C	23°C	29°C 1993	18°C 2010	37%
Dec 15	27°C	23°C	29°C 2016	19°C 2010	38%
Dec 16	27°C	23°C	29°C 2019	18°C 1997	38%
Dec 17	27°C	23°C	29°C 2019	19°C 2003	38%
Dec 18	27°C	23°C	30°C 2016	19°C 2003	37%
Dec 19	27°C	23°C	30°C 2016	20°C 2003	36%
Dec 20	27°C	23°C	29°C 2018	19°C 2010	35%
Dec 21	27°C	23°C	29°C 1993	19°C 2000	34%
Dec 22	27°C	23°C	29°C 1993	18°C 2018	33%
Dec 23	27°C	23°C	29°C 2004	20°C 2019	33%
Dec 24	27°C	23°C	30°C 2004	20°C 2019	33%
Dec 25	27°C	23°C	30°C 2004	20°C 1994	32%
Dec 26	27°C	23°C	29°C 2016	19°C 2010	32%
Dec 27	27°C	23°C	29°C 2016	18°C 2010	31%
Dec 28	27°C	23°C	29°C 2018	18°C 1999	32%
Dec 29	27°C	23°C	29°C 2012	19°C 1997	32%
Dec 30	27°C	23°C	29°C 2019	19°C 1997	31%
Dec 31	27°C	23°C	30°C 2007	19°C 1997	31%

Chance of rain

Chance of a wet day

Sunrise and sunset

Times for 2026, local time (EST).

December 1: sunrise 7:08 AM, sunset 6:05 PM
December 31: sunrise 7:24 AM, sunset 6:17 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.