December Temperature Averages for South American Cities

Temperature averages for December at major cities throughout South America are listed below in degrees Celsius and Fahrenheit.

Included in this group are South America's national capitals plus cities with a metropolitan population of over one million people.

The cities are listed alphabetically and you can jump ahead to the section for Asunción to Cochabamba or Córdoba to Montevideo or Natal to Vitíria.

The tables give the averages of this month's maximum and minimum daily temperatures based on historical weather data collected over a long period, in most cases 30 years.

Average December temperatures
High °F Low °F City High °C Low °C
90 71 Asunción, Paraguay 32 22
85 67 Barquisimeto, Venezuela 29 20
85 85 Barranquilla, Colombia 30 30
89 72 Belém, Brazil 32 22
81 65 Belo Horizonte, Brazil 27 18
67 48 Bogotá, Colombia 20 9
79 64 Brasília, Brazil 26 18
82 67 Bucaramanga, Colombia 28 19
83 65 Buenos Aires, Argentina 28 18
84 67 Cali, Colombia 29 19
83 65 Campinas, Brazil 29 18
83 58 Caracas, Venezuela 28 14
87 75 Cartagena, Colombia 30 24
85 76 Cayenne, French Guiana 30 25
81 55 Cochabamba, Bolivia 27 13
Temperatures averages for December
High °F Low °F City High °C Low °C
87 63 Córdoba, Argentina 30 17
78 60 Curitiba, Brazil 25 15
87 76 Fortaleza, Brazil 31 25
85 75 Georgetown, Guyana 29 24
84 67 Goiânia, Brazil 29 20
89 72 Guayaquil, Ecuador 32 22
86 75 Joao Pessoa, Brazil 30 24
60 51 La Paz - El Alto, Bolivia 15 10
75 64 Lima, Peru 24 18
86 72 Maceió, Brazil 30 22
88 74 Manaus, Brazil 31 24
94 71 Maracaibo, Venezuela 34 22
88 65 Maracay, Venezuela 31 19
81 63 Medellín, Colombia 27 17
85 63 Mendoza, Argentina 29 17
80 61 Montevideo, Uruguay 27 16
December temperature averages
High °F Low °F City High °C Low °C
86 74 Natal, Brazil 30 24
87 74 Paramaribo, Suriname 30 23
84 66 Porto Alegre, Brazil 29 19
70 49 Quito, Ecuador 21 10
86 72 Recife, Brazil 30 22
83 72 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 29 22
85 62 Rosario, Argentina 30 16
84 74 Salvador, Brazil 29 23
88 55 Santa Cruz, Bolivia 31 13
83 54 Santiago, Chile 28 12
88 75 Sao Luís, Brazil 31 24
79 64 São Paulo, Brazil 26 18
88 51 Sucre, Bolivia 31 10
94 74 Teresina, Brazil 34 23
85 72 Vitíria, Brazil 30 22
Reference

The temperature data are provided by national meteorological agencies.

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