Average December Temperatures for New Mexico

Average temperatures for December at cities, towns, parks and lakes throughout New Mexico are listed below in degrees Fahrenheit and Celsius.

You can jump to a separate table for each region of the state: Southern, Central and Northern New Mexico.

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.

Southern New Mexico

Average December temperatures
High °F	Low °F	Place	High °C	Low °C
54	33	Alamogordo	12	0
56	21	Bitter Lake Wildlife Refuge	14	-6
59	31	Carlsbad	15	-1
57	35	Carlsbad Caverns National Park	14	2
44	16	Cuba	6	-9
56	30	Elephant Butte Lake Dam	13	-1
56	18	Gila Hot Springs	13	-8
56	31	Hobbs	13	-1
58	30	Las Cruces	15	-1
57	28	Roswell	14	-2
48	22	Ruidoso	9	-6
57	22	White Sands National Monument	14	-5

Central New Mexico

Average daily temperatures in December
High °F	Low °F	Place	High °C	Low °C
47	27	Albuquerque	9	-3
53	27	Clovis	12	-3
52	27	Conchas Lake Dam	11	-3
44	14	El Morro National Monument	7	-10
45	14	Gallup	7	-10
48	23	Gran Quivira National Monument	9	-5
50	14	Grants	10	-10
46	20	Las Vegas	8	-7
47	18	Pecos National Monument	8	-8
43	18	Santa Fe	6	-8
51	24	Socorro	10	-5
53	26	Tucumcari	12	-4

Northern New Mexico

December temperatures: daily averages
High °F	Low °F	Place	High °C	Low °C
43	19	Abiquiu Lake Dam	6	-7
46	18	Aztec Ruins National Monument	8	-8
44	13	Chaco Canyon National Monument	6	-11
49	22	Clayton	9	-6
39	6	Eagle Nest	4	-14
40	10	El Vado Lake Dam	5	-12
42	21	Farmington	5	-6
42	13	Lake Maloya (Sugarite Canyon Park)	5	-11
46	14	Raton	8	-10
35	8	Red River	2	-13
42	14	Taos	6	-10

Average Temperatures for New Mexico in December

Southern New Mexico

Central New Mexico

Northern New Mexico

Reference

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