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Typical December weather
Death Valley
California · December
66° days
41° nights
maybe one rainy day · 9½ hours of daylight
What to pack
- Sweater
What December feels like
Short days mean you can catch sunrise at Zabriskie Point and sunset at Badwater without much of a plan between them. Nights drop toward freezing on the valley floor and colder still up at Dante's View, and on a moonless night the sky here is about as dark as it gets anywhere in the lower states.
Real rain shows up maybe one day all month; the rest stay dry.
The numbers
| Typical high | 66° |
|---|---|
| Typical low | 41° |
| Days with real rain | 1 |
| Total rain | 0.3 in |
| Sunrise / sunset (mid-month) | 6:52 am / 4:33 pm |