Average Rainfall for Portugal in December

The tables below give monthly averages for rainfall during December at cities in Portugal.

Each place has a total for how many days of wet weather it usually gets this month and for the normal amount of precipitation. The calculation of days only includes the days when precipitation totalled at least one millimetre (0.04 inches).

The month's rainfall totals are average of weather data collected from 1971 to 2000.

You can jump to a separate table for each part of the country: Southern, Lisbon Region, Central and Northern Portugal.

Southern Portugal

Cities in this section are in the Algarve & Alentejo regions. Faro and Vila Real de Santo Antonio are on Portugal's south coast.

Average monthly precipitation in December
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
10 Beja 4.0 101
10 Évora 4.0 103
9 Faro 4.6 116
11 Portalegre 5.4 136
Vila Real de Santo Antonio 3.9 100

Lisbon Region

December averages for total rainfall
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
Alcobaça 5.2 132
11 Lisbon (Lisboa) 4.8 122
11 Santarém 4.1 104
11 Setúbal 5.1 129

Central Portugal

Average amount of rain in December
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
13 Aveiro 5.2 132
10 Castelo Branco 5.0 128
12 Coimbra 5.0 127
11 Guarda 5.6 142
12 Penhas Douradas 9.5 242
13 Viseu 7.7 195

Northern Portugal

Precipitation totals for December
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
14 Braga 9.1 231
11 Bragança 4.7 119
13 Porto 7.7 195
15 Viana do Castelo 9.0 228
11 Vila Real 6.9 175
Reference

Instituto de Meteorologia, IP Portugal. Normais Climatológicas 71-00.

Portugal Precipitation
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