December Temperature Averages for Cities in South America

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

December Temperature Averages for South American Cities

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