Average Precipitation for Texas in December

The tables below give monthly averages for rainfall plus snowfall during December at cities, towns and parks in Texas.

Each place has a total for the amount of precipitation it usually receives this month.

There's also a count of the number of days with wet weather, when precipitation amounts to 0.01 inches (0.25 millimetres) or more.

The precipitation totals are averages based on weather data collected from 1991 to 2020 for the US National Centers for Environmental Information.

You can jump to a separate table for each region of the state: North Central Texas, South Central Texas, East Texas, Gulf Coast and West Texas.

North Central Texas

Average monthly precipitation in December
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
8 Athens 4.3 110
9 College Station 3.7 94
7 Dallas 3.2 82
7 Denton 2.7 68
6 Fort Worth 2.9 73
7 Killeen 2.4 61
7 McKinney 3.5 89
7 Sherman 3.6 92
7 Waco 2.9 73
5 Wichita Falls 1.6 40

South Central Texas

December averages for total rainfall plus snowfall
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
2 Alice 1.3 33
8 Austin 2.7 69
7 Choke Canyon Lake Dam 1.7 42
6 Falcon Lake Dam 1.0 25
7 Fredericksburg 2.0 52
6 Kingsville 1.5 39
6 Laredo 1.1 27
4 Midland 0.6 15
7 New Braunfels 2.6 65
7 San Antonio 2.0 51

East Texas

Average amount of rain and snow in December
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
9 Lake Fork 4.3 109
9 Longview 4.6 118
9 Lufkin 5.8 147
11 Sam Rayburn Lake Dam 6.1 155
11 Texarkana 5.2 132
11 Toledo Bend Reservoir Dam 5.8 147
9 Tyler 4.7 119

Gulf Coast

Precipitation totals for December
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
8 Aransas Wildlife Refuge 2.6 66
10 Beaumont 5.3 134
8 Brownsville 1.2 31
7 Corpus Christi 1.9 49
10 Galveston 4.2 107
10 Houston 4.3 110
3 McAllen 0.6 14
8 Victoria 2.3 59

West Texas

Total precipitation during December
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
5 Abilene 1.3 32
4 Amarillo 0.7 18
5 Del Rio 0.8 21
4 El Paso 0.6 16
5 Guadalupe Mountains Park 0.8 20
2 Lajitas, Big Bend Park 0.3 6
4 Lubbock 0.8 19
3 Odessa 0.6 15
4 San Angelo 0.9 23
Reference

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

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