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

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

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

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

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