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Dijon in December

avoid busy · not the best time to go · the wettest month of the year

The year in Dijon

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  1. Dijon in January: avoid
  2. Dijon in February: ok
  3. Dijon in March: ok
  4. Dijon in April: good
  5. Dijon in May: sweet spot
  6. Dijon in June: good, busy
  7. Dijon in July: sweet spot, busy
  8. Dijon in August: sweet spot, busy
  9. Dijon in September: sweet spot
  10. Dijon in October: good
  11. Dijon in November: avoid
  12. Dijon in December: avoid, busy
  • Sweet spot
  • Good
  • OK
  • Avoid
  • Busy
December at Dijon is 7°C by day and 2°C at night, with 11 rainy days and about 3 hours of sun a day. Busier than usual.

The numbers

Daily high7°C
Nightly low2°C
Feels like, afternoon4°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more11 · 87 mm
Humidity89%
Sunshine3.4 h/day
Daylight8.5 h/day
Crowds53 / 100, higher is quieter

Ten-year averages for this calendar month. A rainy day is one with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts it. The model these figures come from drizzles more than a rain gauge, the more so the warmer the month, so its days count from 2 mm, rising to 5 mm in the hottest.

Weather read at the old town: ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

December: busier than usual. Busiest from June to August; quietest in January and February.

Public holidays in December

Holidays crowd a place out and push fares up around them; they count toward the crowd score above.

Dijon in pictures

What to pack

  • A proper coat, hat and gloves: nights average 2°C.
  • A packable rain jacket for the 11 or so rainy days.
  • Humidity averages 89%; breathable fabrics dry faster.

Each line is a threshold over the ten-year figures above, not advice from anywhere else.

Before you go

Type C and E plugs at 230 / 400 V. Drives on the right. The currency is the Euro. No UK Foreign Office advice against travel. Everything for France: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.

On arrival in Dijon: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.

December elsewhere

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