Climate · Ambergris Caye

Ambergris Caye in December

Warm and wet, as the days hold steady.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

December in Ambergris Caye is warm, around 77°F through the day and night. Rain falls on about five days a week, and daylight holds at about 11 hours 4 minutes.December in Ambergris Caye is warm, around 25°C through the day and night. Rain falls on about five days a week, and daylight holds at about 11 hours 4 minutes.

Typical
77°F25°Caverage
Wet days
5a week · 65% of days
Daylight
11h 04mon average

Is December a good time to visit Ambergris Caye?


A good month, just outside Ambergris Caye's best months, which run from March to April.

How we judge it: every month is scored on how close its typical high comes to the range from 70°F to 80°F, how mild its nights are, and how rarely it rains. The best months are the run of months that scores best.How we judge it: every month is scored on how close its typical high comes to the range from 21°C to 27°C, how mild its nights are, and how rarely it rains. The best months are the run of months that scores best.

How December sits in the year

week by week

Temperature

Around 77°F in December, against 76°F to 82°F through the year.Around 25°C in December, against 24°C to 28°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

65% of days in December, against 31% to 84% through the year.

Cloud cover

40% cover in December, against 30% to 77% through the year.

Daylight

11h 04m in December, against 11h 04m to 13h 11m through the year.

Week by week, lightly smoothed, with December shaded. The olive line marks the best months. Hover or tap a week for its figures.

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  1. November79°26°5 wet days a weekRain on about five days a week.
  2. December77°25°5 wet days a weekRain on about five days a week.
  3. January76°24°4 wet days a weekRain on about four days a week.

Where Ambergris Caye sits, in December

America/Belize

this place
typical high in December 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-December
6:15 AMsets 5:19 PM
Above the sea
0 mlow-lying
Latitude
17.9°Nnorthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
Placencia Village149 km south

The land around Ambergris Caye, shaded by its typical high in December, the planning map's own layer. Hover the map for the figure at that spot; tap it on a phone. Clock times are local, for the 15th.

Elsewhere in Belize in December

typical · wet days

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years (1995–2024). Ambergris Caye sits on a grid square that is mostly sea, where the data hold only a daily average, so the page shows one typical temperature, not a high and a low. Daylight is calculated from latitude. Charts are lightly smoothed week to week; the figures in the table are not. Source: Copernicus ERA5-Land reanalysis; cloud cover from NASA's MERRA-2 reanalysis, on a coarser grid of about 50 km. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026; neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use of it. These are averages, not a forecast.

Daylight is calculated from latitude. Charts are lightly smoothed week to week; the figures in the table are not.

Source: Copernicus ERA5-Land reanalysis; cloud cover from NASA's MERRA-2 reanalysis, on a coarser grid of about 50 km. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026; neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use of it. These are averages, not a forecast.