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Where to go in December

What is actually pleasant in December — by average temperature and rainy days, not by feel. The numbers are climate normals, the same for every place.

Cities

Santiago

Chile

21°C0 rainy days

Luxor

Egypt

18°C0 rainy days

Buenos Aires

Argentina

23°C7 rainy days

Windhoek

Namibia

24°C5 rainy days

Hanoi

Vietnam

18°C4 rainy days

Cairo

Egypt

17°C2 rainy days

Marrakech

Morocco

14°C4 rainy days

Kairouan

Tunisia

14°C2 rainy days

Nature and mountains

Abu Simbel

Egypt

18°C0 rainy days

Aswan

Egypt

18°C0 rainy days

San Pedro de Atacama

Chile

20°C1 rainy day

Skeleton Coast

Namibia

18°C0 rainy days

Swakopmund

Namibia

18°C0 rainy days

Ha Long Bay

Vietnam

18°C3 rainy days

Fish River Canyon

Namibia

23°C0 rainy days

Chiang Mai

Thailand

22°C3 rainy days

Temperatures and rainy days are climate normals from `content_geo.py`, the same for all 214 places. “Pleasant” means: a city at 12–26°C with at most 10 rainy days, coast above 24°C with at most 6, mountains 8–24°C with at most 10.

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Photo credits and licences (32)

Plaza de Armas de Santiago 2017 b — WeHaKa, CC BY-SA 4.0
Balloon over Luxor - Egypt — Marcosleal, CC BY-SA 3.0
Buenos Aires - La Boca - Caminito - 200807i — Luis Argerich from Buenos Aires, Argentina, CC BY 2.0
Windhuk Independence Avenue 1 — Zairon, CC BY-SA 4.0
Hanoi Old Quarter, 9 March 2019-2 — Alexey Komarov, CC BY-SA 4.0
Flickr - Gaspa - Cairo, Bazar el-Khalili — Francesco Gasparetti from Senigallia, Italy, CC BY 2.0
Maroc Marrakech Jemaa-el-Fna Luc Viatour — No machine-readable author provided. Lviatour assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0
Medina of Kairouan 17042022 004 — Yamen, CC BY-SA 4.0
Amfiteatre d'El Djem - interior — Josep Renalias Lohen11, CC BY 4.0
Museu de les Ciències Príncipe Felipe, Valencia, August 2026 — Esniom, CC BY-SA 4.0
Catania-etna — Dror Feitelson, CC BY-SA 4.0
Bardo Museum(102) — Sinda BF, CC BY-SA 4.0
Via Vittorio Emanuele Mittags — Clemensfranz, CC BY-SA 3.0
Miradouro das Portas do Sol Lisbon Alfama overview pano — Dicklyon, CC BY-SA 4.0
Plaza de Espana, Seville — Dokkolo, CC BY-SA 4.0
Chouara Tannery - 154 - Marokko Handybilder 2018 - Fes (27347707917) — Uwe Brodrecht, CC BY-SA 2.0
Templo de Nefertari, Abu Simbel, Egipto, 2022-04-02, DD 101 — Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0
Philae Temple Complex, Agilkia Island, Aswan, AG, EGY (48026937717) — Warren LeMay from Cullowhee, NC, United States, CC0
Géiseres del Tatio, Atacama, Chile, 2016-02-01, DD 51-53 HDR — Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0
Cape Cross Seal Colony, RTW 2012 (8395938208) — Ana Raquel S. Hernandes from Sao Paulo, Brazil, CC BY-SA 2.0
Swakopmund Woermannhaus 1 — Zairon, CC BY-SA 4.0
Sung Sot Cave, Ha Long Bay, Vietnam, 20240128 1549 3836 — Jakub Hałun, CC BY 4.0
Hiking in the Fish River Canyon - panoramio — Roelf, CC BY-SA 3.0
Wat Doi Suthep 04 — ErwinMeier, CC BY-SA 4.0
Centro cívico de San Carlos de Bariloche en 2022 — César Pérez , CC BY-SA 4.0
Above Moroccan Dunes — Patricia Ilizaliturri, CC BY-SA 4.0
Tunisia-3901 - Chott el Jerid (8032314619) — Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0
Kibo Summit, Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania (30819102678) — Ray in Manila, CC BY 2.0
Aït Benhaddou view from above — Elena Tatiana Chis, CC BY-SA 4.0
Chefchaouen, Morocco (Unsplash) — Azer Koçulu azer, CC0
Longsheng rice terraces 87910-Longsheng (49040264193) — xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0
Pamukkale Hierapolis Travertine pools — Pvasiliadis, CC BY-SA 3.0

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