Average Temperatures for Tennessee in December

Average temperatures for December at cities and towns throughout Tennessee are listed below in degrees Fahrenheit and Celsius.

You can jump to a separate table for each region of the state: Eastern, Middle and Western Tennessee.

The tables give the normals for maximum and minimum temperatures based on weather data collected from 1991 to 2020 by the US National Centers for Environmental Information.

Eastern Tennessee

Average December temperatures
High °F Low °F Place High °C Low °C
52 31 Athens 11 0
50 29 Bristol 10 -2
53 35 Chattanooga 12 2
53 32 Cleveland 11 0
47 30 Crossville 9 -1
50 31 Dayton 10 0
50 29 Gatlinburg 10 -1
51 29 Greeneville 10 -2
50 30 Kingsport 10 -1
51 33 Knoxville 11 0
49 32 Lookout Mountain 9 0
49 33 Morristown 9 0
49 26 Mountain City 9 -3
51 32 Mousetail Landing Park 11 0
49 32 Oak Ridge 10 0
49 28 Oneida 9 -2
52 30 Sevierville 11 -1

Middle Tennessee

Average daily temperatures in December
High °F Low °F Place High °C Low °C
51 31 Cheatham Lake Dam 11 0
50 31 Clarksville 10 0
51 30 Columbia 11 -1
51 30 Cookeville 11 -1
50 31 Dover 10 0
48 30 Monteagle 9 -1
51 31 Murfreesboro 11 -1
52 33 Nashville 11 1
52 32 Shelbyville 11 0
51 32 Tullahoma 11 0

Western Tennessee

December temperatures: daily averages
High °F Low °F Place High °C Low °C
50 33 Dyersburg 10 0
52 31 Jackson 11 -1
49 30 Martin 10 -1
53 36 Memphis 12 2
54 34 Savannah 12 1
Reference

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). Climate Normals.

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