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| Long term (1893-present) avg. temperature = 35.4 & avg. precipitation = 0.45 inches | |||||||
| Ten Warmest | Ten Driest | Ten Coldest | Ten Wettest | ||||
| 1. 1950 | 42.3 | 1. 1903 | 0.00 | 1. 1911 | 25.2 | 1. 1914 | 2.43 |
| 2. 2010 | 41.9 | 1917 | 0.00 | 2. 1912 | 28.0 | 2. 1959 | 1.85 |
| 3. 1958 | 41.5 | 1950 | 0.00 | 3. 1898 | 29.1 | 3. 2006 | 1.50 |
| 4. 1906 | 41.3 | 1956 | 0.00 | 4. 1907 | 29.2 | 4. 1991 | 1.49 |
| 5. 1995 | 40.9 | 1981 | 0.00 | 5. 1913 | 29.9 | 5. 1965 | 1.42 |
| 1994 | 40.9 | 6. 1900 | TR | 6. 1924 | 30.0 | 6. 1971 | 1.40 |
| 7. 1942 | 40.8 | 1901 | TR | 1968 | 30.0 | 7. 1984 | 1.36 |
| 8. 1980 | 40.5 | 1916 | TR | 8. 1930 | 30.1 | 8. 1958 | 1.35 |
| 1981 | 40.5 | 1963 | TR | 9. 1905 | 31.6 | 9. 1906 | 1.23 |
| 10. 2017 | 40.4 | 1996 | TR | 1932 | 31.6 | 10. 2011 | 1.20 |
| 1977/1946 | 40.4 | ||||||
| December Mean Temperatures and Monthly Precipitation for Albuquerque since 1893 | ||||||||||
| 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | |
| 1890 | 36.1 | 36.4 | 31.9 | 37.1 | 34.3 | 29.1 | 36.6 | |||
| 0.01 | 0.31 | 0.32 | 0.38 | 0.35 | 0.70 | 0.22 | ||||
| 1900 | 34.6 | 37.6 | 34.5 | 33.7 | 34.2 | 31.0 | 41.3 | 35.4 | 37.4 | 29.2 |
| TR | TR | 0.84 | 0.00 | 0.60 | 1.09 | 1.23 | 0.01 | 0.24 | 0.19 | |
| 1910 | 34.8 | 25.2 | 28.0 | 29.9 | 31.6 | 36.4 | 31.6 | 38.6 | 32.2 | 36.9 |
| 0.22 | 0.20 | 0.47 | 1.06 | 2.43 | 0.21 | TR | 0.00 | 0.30 | 0.79 | |
| 1920 | 33.2 | 39.8 | 39.9 | 35.4 | 30.0 | 34.0 | 33.8 | 31.9 | 34.2 | 36.2 |
| 0.23 | 0.28 | 0.05 | 0.36 | 0.44 | 0.15 | 1.10 | 0.16 | 0.20 | 0.18 | |
| 1930 | 30.1 | 33.7 | 31.6 | 38.8 | 36.0 | 34.7 | 35.2 | 37.8 | 37.7 | 40.0 |
| 0.04 | 0.07 | 0.37 | 0.05 | 0.78 | 0.36 | 0.13 | 0.48 | 0.36 | 0.10 | |
| 1940 | 39.2 | 37.7 | 40.8 | 32.1 | 36.2 | 33.4 | 40.4 | 34.6 | 38.2 | 34.1 |
| 0.87 | 0.23 | 1.10 | 0.94 | 0.76 | 0.35 | 0.12 | 1.05 | 0.11 | 0.59 | |
| 1950 | 42.3 | 36.2 | 33.7 | 32.8 | 36.1 | 40.0 | 36.3 | 38.5 | 41.5 | 38.2 |
| 0.00 | 0.28 | 0.20 | 0.29 | 0.14 | 0.22 | 0.00 | 0.32 | 1.35 | 1.85 | |
| 1960 | 33.9 | 34.1 | 36.9 | 34.8 | 35.5 | 35.8 | 34.3 | 32.4 | 30.0 | 39.1 |
| 0.39 | 0.65 | 0.51 | TR | 0.49 | 1.42 | 0.01 | 0.56 | 0.82 | 0.72 | |
| 1970 | 36.4 | 31.9 | 35.0 | 34.0 | 32.0 | 35.6 | 33.0 | 40.4 | 34.3 | 37.7 |
| 0.23 | 1.40 | 0.36 | 0.03 | 0.51 | 0.28 | 0.20 | 0.13 | 0.76 | 0.87 | |
| 1980 | 40.5 | 40.5 | 34.4 | 36.7 | 35.6 | 37.6 | 36.3 | 35.3 | 33.9 | 35.1 |
| 0.74 | 0.00 | 0.78 | 0.42 | 1.36 | 0.16 | 0.44 | 0.34 | 0.03 | 0.28 | |
| 1990 | 32.1 | 37.4 | 32.8 | 37.3 | 40.9 | 40.9 | 38.6 | 32.7 | 38.5 | 35.6 |
| 0.59 | 1.49 | 1.16 | 0.03 | 0.62 | 0.17 | TR | 1.00 | 0.22 | 0.03 | |
| 2000 | 37.1 | 36.3 | 36.5 | 37.2 | 37.0 | 38.8 | 35.1 | 36.5 | 38.8 | 33.9 |
| 0.24 | 0.24 | 0.36 | 0.11 | 0.30 | 0.10 | 1.50 | 1.14 | 0.65 | 0.15 | |
| 2010 | 41.9 | 33.5 | 37.2 | 35.6 | 39.4 | 36.9 | 39.2 | 40.4 | 38.9 | 35.9 |
| 1.07 | 1.20 | 0.12 | 0.40 | 1.14 | 0.98 | 0.51 | TR | 0.03 | 0.52 | |
| 2020 | ||||||||||