Lilongwe Weather in December

NASA POWER reanalysis for the half-degree grid cell around Lilongwe, 1991-2020; a grid cell is an area average and can differ from a thermometer in town by several degrees

Average highs run from 30°C on December 1 to 27°C on December 31, and lows from 19°C to 18°C. Normal precipitation for the month is 233 mm over about 25 wet days.

December day by day

The normal high and low for each date, in °C.

Normal low
Normal high
Reanalysis extreme high
Reanalysis extreme low

December at a glance

Average high: 28°C
Average low: 18°C
Precipitation: 233 mm
Reanalysis high: 36°CDec 10, 2015
Reanalysis low: 12°CDec 16, 1994
Daylight: 12 h 54 min to 12 h 56 min
Cloud cover: 74%
Humidity: 76%
Dew point: 17°C
Wind: 11.5 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	Reanalysis high	Reanalysis low	Chance wet
Dec 1	30°C	19°C	34°C 2015	15°C 1992	67%
Dec 2	29°C	19°C	34°C 2015	16°C 1991	68%
Dec 3	29°C	19°C	36°C 2011	17°C 2014	70%
Dec 4	29°C	18°C	34°C 2013	17°C 2013	72%
Dec 5	29°C	18°C	35°C 2014	16°C 1995	74%
Dec 6	29°C	18°C	34°C 2014	16°C 1998	76%
Dec 7	29°C	18°C	35°C 2011	16°C 1998	78%
Dec 8	29°C	18°C	35°C 2011	16°C 2013	80%
Dec 9	28°C	18°C	35°C 2015	16°C 2013	82%
Dec 10	28°C	18°C	36°C 2015	17°C 2013	84%
Dec 11	28°C	18°C	33°C 2013	16°C 2007	85%
Dec 12	28°C	18°C	31°C 2013	15°C 1994	86%
Dec 13	28°C	18°C	32°C 2015	14°C 1994	87%
Dec 14	28°C	18°C	31°C 2015	16°C 1997	88%
Dec 15	28°C	18°C	30°C 2001	16°C 1994	87%
Dec 16	27°C	18°C	30°C 1998	12°C 1994	88%
Dec 17	27°C	18°C	32°C 1998	14°C 1999	88%
Dec 18	27°C	18°C	33°C 2009	15°C 1994	88%
Dec 19	27°C	18°C	31°C 1998	16°C 1994	88%
Dec 20	27°C	18°C	31°C 1998	16°C 2011	88%
Dec 21	27°C	18°C	31°C 2011	14°C 1991	88%
Dec 22	27°C	18°C	32°C 2011	16°C 2004	87%
Dec 23	27°C	18°C	31°C 2016	16°C 2012	87%
Dec 24	27°C	18°C	33°C 2016	16°C 2006	86%
Dec 25	27°C	18°C	31°C 1994	16°C 2006	87%
Dec 26	27°C	18°C	31°C 1999	16°C 2008	87%
Dec 27	27°C	18°C	31°C 1993	16°C 2010	87%
Dec 28	27°C	18°C	32°C 1994	15°C 2002	87%
Dec 29	27°C	18°C	31°C 2011	16°C 1996	88%
Dec 30	27°C	18°C	31°C 1993	15°C 2017	89%
Dec 31	27°C	18°C	33°C 1993	14°C 2017	89%

Chance of rain

Chance of a wet day

Sunrise and sunset

Times for 2026, local time (GMT+2).

December 1: sunrise 5:07 AM, sunset 6:01 PM
December 31: sunrise 5:20 AM, sunset 6:16 PM

Every day of December: sun and moon

Other months

Sources

Cloud, humidity, wind and sunshine, and temperature and precipitation: 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 2026-09-25. Sun and moon: computed with the NOAA solar equations and Meeus.