Birmingham is typically cool in December.

Maximum temperatures go down compared to the previous month from +10°C to +7°C. The minimum temperature also goes down from +4°C to +2°C.

Pack a sweater and a jacket as there will be cooler temperatures.

December is one of the coolest months in Birmingham, here is the comparison with other months:

December typically has worse weather conditions compared to November. It’s getting colder in December. From +10°C in the day, the average maximum temperature lowers to +7°C. The rainfall amount in December stays the same as in the previous month with a 62 mm of total precipitation. Humidity rises from 86% to 87%. The average wind speed doesn’t change much during December, staying around 3 m/s. The days becoming less sunny, going from 3 sunny days in November to 2 in December.

January brings much the same weather, it remains bad.

December is one of the snowiest months in Birmingham.

Here’s how December is compared with other months in the amount of snow, total mm:

The climate in Birmingham in December has not changed much over the last 43 years.

The average temperature was the lowest in 1979 (+11°C) and the highest in 2022 (+15°C). The driest year was 1996 with only 397 mm of rainfall, and the wettest year was 2024 with 1299 mm.

For this page, we’ve looked at the typical weather in Birmingham, based on historical hourly weather data from January 1, 1979, to December 31, 2023.

For past dates, we show actual recorded data at the location at that time. Forecasts are based on recorded weather during that day of the year, averaged over the total years for which we have records (unless stated otherwise). The daily temperature is the highest recorded temperature in the shadow during that day.