Palmerston Weather in December
Average highs run from 34°C on December 1 to 32°C on December 31, and lows from 26°C to 25°C. Normal precipitation for the month is 280 mm over about 28 wet days.
December day by day
The normal high and low for each date, and the record, in °C.
- Normal low
- Normal high
- Record high
- Record low
December at a glance
- Average high
- 33°C
- Average low
- 25°C
- Precipitation
- 280 mm
- Record high
- 37°CDec 9, 2019
- Record low
- 20°CDec 4, 1974
- Daylight
- 12 h 48 min to 12 h 51 min
- Cloud cover
- 77%
- Humidity
- 79%
- Dew point
- 25°C
- Wind
- 10.4 km/h
Every day of the month
A wet day has at least 1 mm of precipitation in the reanalysis.
| Date | Normal high | Normal low | Record high | Record low | Chance wet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 1 | 34°C | 26°C | 36°C 2023 | 21°C 1964 | 81% |
| Dec 2 | 34°C | 26°C | 36°C 2022 | 22°C 1975 | 82% |
| Dec 3 | 34°C | 26°C | 36°C 1953 | 21°C 1943 | 82% |
| Dec 4 | 34°C | 26°C | 36°C 2024 | 20°C 1974 | 82% |
| Dec 5 | 34°C | 26°C | 37°C 1969 | 20°C 1974 | 82% |
| Dec 6 | 34°C | 26°C | 37°C 2019 | 21°C 1984 | 83% |
| Dec 7 | 34°C | 26°C | 36°C 2015 | 21°C 1949 | 83% |
| Dec 8 | 34°C | 26°C | 36°C 2019 | 21°C 1943 | 83% |
| Dec 9 | 33°C | 26°C | 37°C 2019 | 21°C 1956 | 84% |
| Dec 10 | 34°C | 26°C | 36°C 2020 | 22°C 1948 | 86% |
| Dec 11 | 33°C | 26°C | 36°C 2019 | 20°C 1976 | 86% |
| Dec 12 | 33°C | 26°C | 36°C 2004 | 21°C 1945 | 87% |
| Dec 13 | 33°C | 26°C | 36°C 2012 | 22°C 1959 | 88% |
| Dec 14 | 33°C | 25°C | 36°C 1982 | 22°C 1992 | 89% |
| Dec 15 | 33°C | 25°C | 36°C 2005 | 21°C 1953 | 90% |
| Dec 16 | 33°C | 25°C | 35°C 2021 | 21°C 1950 | 91% |
| Dec 17 | 33°C | 26°C | 36°C 1979 | 22°C 1962 | 91% |
| Dec 18 | 33°C | 25°C | 37°C 1976 | 21°C 2002 | 92% |
| Dec 19 | 33°C | 25°C | 37°C 2021 | 21°C 1941 | 93% |
| Dec 20 | 33°C | 26°C | 35°C 2017 | 22°C 1970 | 94% |
| Dec 21 | 33°C | 26°C | 35°C 1983 | 22°C 1945 | 94% |
| Dec 22 | 33°C | 25°C | 36°C 1972 | 22°C 1954 | 94% |
| Dec 23 | 33°C | 25°C | 36°C 2006 | 21°C 1964 | 94% |
| Dec 24 | 32°C | 25°C | 36°C 2019 | 20°C 1941 | 94% |
| Dec 25 | 32°C | 25°C | 36°C 2018 | 21°C 1958 | 94% |
| Dec 26 | 32°C | 25°C | 35°C 2019 | 22°C 1969 | 94% |
| Dec 27 | 32°C | 25°C | 36°C 1961 | 21°C 1943 | 93% |
| Dec 28 | 32°C | 25°C | 36°C 1991 | 21°C 1992 | 94% |
| Dec 29 | 32°C | 25°C | 36°C 1968 | 23°C 1942 | 93% |
| Dec 30 | 32°C | 25°C | 36°C 1977 | 20°C 1988 | 92% |
| Dec 31 | 32°C | 25°C | 35°C 2023 | 22°C 1957 | 92% |
Chance of rain
- Chance of a wet day
Sunrise and sunset
Times for 2026, local time (GMT+9:30).
- December 1
- sunrise 6:11 AM, sunset 6:59 PM
- December 31
- sunrise 6:23 AM, sunset 7:14 PM
Other months
Sources
Records: NOAA GHCN-Daily, station ASN00014015, every year on file, quality-flagged values removed. Cloud, humidity, wind and sunshine: NASA POWER (MERRA-2, CERES and GEWEX SRB), 1991-2020. The data was obtained from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center's Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) project funded through the NASA Earth Science Division: POWER Daily API v2, accessed 2026-09-24. Sun and moon: computed with the NOAA solar equations and Meeus.