December Sunshine Averages for Cities in Europe

The tables below give December averages for the number of hours of sunshine at major cities throughout Europe.

The cities range from Amsterdam to Zurich and from Reykjavík to İstanbul. They are listed alphabetically and you can jump ahead to the section for Amsterdam to Kazan, Lille to Pristina and Reykjavík to Zurich.

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

The month's totals are averages of historical weather data collected over a long period, in most cases 30 years.

Total December sunshine

City	Hours
Amsterdam, Netherlands	51
Andorra la Vella, Andorra	109
Athens, Greece	127
Barcelona, Spain	138
Belgrade, Serbia	65
Berlin, Germany	37
Birmingham, United Kingdom	38
Brussels, Belgium	45
Bucharest, Romania	63
Budapest, Hungary	49
Chisinau, Moldova	58
Cologne, Germany	44
Copenhagen, Denmark	38
Dublin, Ireland	53
Glasgow, United Kingdom	33
Hamburg, Germany	35
Helsinki, Finland	26
İstanbul, Turkey	71
Kazan, Russia	33

Average amount of sun in December

City	Hours
Lille, France	50
Lisbon, Portugal	142
Ljubljana, Slovenia	37
London, United Kingdom	46
Luxembourg, Luxembourg	43
Lyon, France	54
Madrid, Spain	124
Manchester, United Kingdom	47
Marseille, France	135
Milan, Italy	59
Minsk, Belarus	27
Monaco, Monaco	139
Moscow, Russia	19
Munich, Germany	49
Naples, Italy	105
Nice, France	139
Nizhny & Novgorod, Russia	29
Odessa, Ukraine	57
Oslo, Norway	35
Paris, France	51
Podgorica, Montenegro	107
Prague, Czech Republic	47
Pristina, Kosovo	70

Average December sun

City	Hours
Reykjavík, Iceland	12
Riga, Latvia	24
Rostov-on-Don, Russia	38
Rotterdam, Netherlands	47
Saint Petersburg, Russia	13
Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina	41
Skopje, Macedonia	80
Sofia, Bulgaria	64
Stockholm, Sweden	33
Tallinn, Estonia	18
Turin, Italy	109
Vaduz, Liechtenstein	52
Valletta, Malta	155
Vienna, Austria	51
Vilnius, Lithuania	25
Zagreb, Croatia	50
Zurich, Switzerland	35