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Les Terres Basses in December

Warm and wet, as the days hold steady.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

December in Les Terres Basses is warm, around 78°F through the day and night. Rain falls on about four days a week, less often as the month goes on, and daylight holds at about 11 hours 4 minutes.December in Les Terres Basses is warm, around 26°C through the day and night. Rain falls on about four days a week, less often as the month goes on, and daylight holds at about 11 hours 4 minutes.

Typical
78°F26°Caverage
Wet days
4a week · 56% of days
Daylight
11h 04mon average

Is December a good time to visit Les Terres Basses?

A good month, just outside Les Terres Basses's best months, which run from January 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 78°F in December, against 77°F to 82°F through the year.Around 26°C in December, against 25°C to 28°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

56% of days in December, against 35% to 71% through the year.

Cloud cover

32% cover in December, against 25% to 66% through the year.

Daylight

11h 04m in December, against 11h 04m to 13h 12m 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.

Either side

  1. November80°27°5 wet days a weekRain on about five days a week.
  2. December78°26°4 wet days a weekRain on about four days a week.
  3. January77°25°3 wet days a weekRain on about three days a week.

Where Les Terres Basses sits, in December

America/Marigot
this place
typical high in December 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-December
6:36 AMsets 5:39 PM
Above the sea
10 mlow-lying
Latitude
18.1°Nnorthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
our one place here

The land around Les Terres Basses, 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. Les Terres Basses is our one place in Saint Martin so far. Clock times are local, for the 15th.

See December on the planning mapThe whole year in Les Terres Basses

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years (1995–2024). Les Terres Basses 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.