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Big Pine Key in December

Warm and mostly dry, as the days hold steady.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

December in Big Pine Key is warm, around 72°F through the day and night. Rain falls on about one day a week, and daylight holds at about 10 hours 38 minutes.December in Big Pine Key is warm, around 22°C through the day and night. Rain falls on about one day a week, and daylight holds at about 10 hours 38 minutes.

Typical
72°F22°Caverage
Wet days
1a week · 17% of days
Daylight
10h 38mon average

Is December a good time to visit Big Pine Key?

A good month, just outside Big Pine Key'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 72°F in December, against 70°F to 83°F through the year.Around 22°C in December, against 21°C to 28°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

17% of days in December, against 14% to 66% through the year.

Cloud cover

38% cover in December, against 31% to 66% through the year.

Daylight

10h 38m in December, against 10h 38m to 13h 38m 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. November76°24°1 wet day a weekRain on about one day a week.
  2. December72°22°1 wet day a weekRain on about one day a week.
  3. January70°21°1 wet day a weekRain on about one day a week.

Where Big Pine Key sits, in December

America/New York
this place
typical high in December 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-December
7:02 AMsets 5:39 PM
Above the sea
0 mlow-lying
Latitude
24.7°Nnorthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
Miami170 km north-east

The land around Big Pine Key, 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 United States in December

typical · wet days
See December on the planning mapThe whole year in Big Pine Key

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years (1995–2024). Big Pine Key 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.