Barcelona in December
Around 10.5 °C by day, sea 15.6 °C. Too cold to swim. Quieter than the peak: 3 out of 5 against 4.
December in Barcelona is 10.5 °C by day, sea at 15.6 °C. This is a working city in a working month: load 3 out of 5, as in Valencia (3) and Málaga (3): big cities do not empty in winter. The difference shows not in the weather but in what is open — here, everything is.
For someone moving, December is useful for one thing: it is the most honest month for light. The day is at its shortest, the sun goes early, and a flat with north-facing windows shows exactly what it is. With 2,500 hours of sunshine a year Barcelona is a bright city — but the yearly figure is spread unevenly, and a December weekend explains that better than any table. The square metre in the city is €4,595, a one-bedroom rents at €1,150 a month on the registry.
Towns nearby in December
| Town | Air | Sea | Busy | Winter | €/m² |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barcelona | 10.5 | 15.6 | 3/5 | 5/5 | 4 595appraised |
| Mataró | 10.5 | 15.5 | 1/5 | 5/5 | 2 512appraised |
| Badalona | 10.5 | 15.6 | 1/5 | 5/5 | 2 769appraised |
| Castelldefels | 10.5 | 15.8 | 1/5 | 5/5 | 4 327appraised |
| Sitges | 10.5 | 15.8 | 2/5 | 4/5 | 4 924appraised |
The winter column is a 1-to-5 score: how many cafés, hotels and shops run in January compared with the best month of the year. Where a village has no government figure of its own, it is our estimate. Tourists never notice; anyone who moved does.
Rain days and humidity are annual here, not monthly: 56 rainy days a year, 68% humidity in winter. We have no monthly normals yet and will not invent a split.