Hiking in December
Where the days are dry and cool enough to walk all day, measured over ten years. In December, 9 places are good and 13 fair.
Everywhere
- Kathmandu Nepal good 30 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 18°C by day
- Hong Kong Hong Kong good 29 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 20°C by day
- Tenerife Spain good 29 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 22°C by day
- Mallorca Spain good 26 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 16°C by day
- Granada Spain good 24 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 14°C by day
- Petra Jordan good 24 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 14°C by day
- Crete Greece good 23 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 18°C by day
- Madeira Portugal good 23 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 19°C by day
- Bhutan Bhutan good 22 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 15°C by day
- Corsica France fair 20 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 14°C by day
- Marseille France fair 20 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 13°C by day
- Taipei Taiwan fair 19 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 20°C by day
- The Amalfi Coast Italy fair 19 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 15°C by day
- Cape Town South Africa fair 18 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 26°C by day
- Cinque Terre Italy fair 18 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 13°C by day
- Oahu United States fair 18 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 26°C by day
- Queenstown New Zealand fair 17 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 20°C by day
- The Azores Portugal fair 17 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 17°C by day
- Yosemite United States fair 17 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 12°C by day
- Lake Como Italy fair 16 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 10°C by day
- Maui United States fair 16 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 26°C by day
- Montenegro Montenegro fair 16 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 13°C by day
Photo credits
Tenerife by H. Zell, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsMallorca by Heuschrecke (Dmitry Tonkonog and Ksenia Fedosova), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsGranada by Ввласенко, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPetra by Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsCrete by Ввласенко, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsMadeira by Dietmar Rabich, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsBhutan by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsCorsica by Isiwal, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsMarseille by Clément Bardot, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Amalfi Coast by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsCinque Terre by Luca Casartelli, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsQueenstown by Krzysztof Golik, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Azores by Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsLake Como by Ray in Manila, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsMontenegro by Marcin Konsek, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
How a month is tested for hiking
- A walking day has a daytime high of 10–27 °C, feels no hotter than 30 °C, and is not a rainy day.
- A month is good where 2 days in 3 are walking days, and fair where 1 in 2 are.
- Counted day by day over ten years of measured climate at the place itself, not up on the trails, where it is cooler.
A test on measured figures, the same at every place and from every city: the same month always gives the same answer. It is "good" or "fair", and a month that passes neither is simply not listed. It is separate from the month's own verdict, which also weighs holidays, crowds and fares.
Hiking, other months
- January 10 good
- February 12 good
- March 12 good
- April 24 good
- May 13 good
- June 13 good
- July 10 good
- August 10 good
- September 13 good
- October 22 good
- November 13 good
- December
- Every month, side by side
← November · Everywhere in December · January →
Measured at each place's own point, where its visitors stay, not up on the trails: a mountain path is about 6.5 °C cooler for every 1,000 m it climbs.





















