Shetland Islands is typically cool in December.

Maximum temperatures go down compared to the previous month from +9°C to +7°C. The minimum temperature also goes down from +6°C to +4°C.

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

Take a look at how December is compared to other months in Shetland Islands:

December weather is still as ok as in November. It’s getting colder in December. From +9°C in the day, the average maximum temperature lowers to +7°C. As December arrives, the amount of rainfall goes down. On average, the rainfall volume decreases from 121 mm to 118 mm. Humidity levels don’t change as the month goes on, averaging around 80%. The average wind speed doesn’t change much during December, staying around 8 m/s. The amount of sunny days stay about the same, averaging 0 sunny days during the month.

January brings much the same weather, it remains ok.

December is one of the snowiest months in Shetland Islands.

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

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

The average temperature was the lowest in 1979 (+8°C) and the highest in 2006 (+11°C). The driest year was 1996 with only 776 mm of rainfall, and the wettest year was 2015 with 1280 mm.

For this page, we’ve looked at the typical weather in Shetland Islands, 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.