Nkhotakota Weather in December

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

Average highs run from 31°C on December 1 to 29°C on December 31, and lows from 27°C to 26°C. Normal precipitation for the month is 195 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: 30°C
Average low: 26°C
Precipitation: 195 mm
Reanalysis high: 36°CDec 7, 1999
Reanalysis low: 22°CDec 13, 1994
Daylight: 12 h 50 min to 12 h 53 min
Cloud cover: 73%
Humidity: 65%
Dew point: 21°C
Wind: 13.7 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	31°C	27°C	35°C 1993	24°C 1991	66%
Dec 2	31°C	27°C	35°C 1993	25°C 2018	68%
Dec 3	31°C	27°C	35°C 1996	25°C 2004	70%
Dec 4	31°C	27°C	35°C 1993	25°C 2004	71%
Dec 5	31°C	27°C	34°C 1999	25°C 2000	73%
Dec 6	31°C	27°C	34°C 1999	24°C 1998	75%
Dec 7	31°C	27°C	36°C 1999	24°C 2004	76%
Dec 8	31°C	27°C	35°C 1999	24°C 2013	78%
Dec 9	30°C	26°C	35°C 1993	24°C 2010	81%
Dec 10	30°C	26°C	35°C 2005	24°C 2010	82%
Dec 11	30°C	26°C	35°C 1993	24°C 2008	83%
Dec 12	30°C	26°C	34°C 1993	23°C 1994	85%
Dec 13	30°C	26°C	33°C 2014	22°C 1994	86%
Dec 14	30°C	26°C	34°C 2014	24°C 1994	86%
Dec 15	30°C	26°C	32°C 2001	24°C 2009	86%
Dec 16	30°C	26°C	34°C 2014	23°C 1994	86%
Dec 17	29°C	26°C	33°C 1995	24°C 1994	87%
Dec 18	29°C	26°C	34°C 1998	25°C 2004	87%
Dec 19	29°C	26°C	33°C 1998	24°C 2008	87%
Dec 20	29°C	26°C	33°C 1998	24°C 2004	87%
Dec 21	29°C	26°C	33°C 1998	24°C 2004	86%
Dec 22	29°C	26°C	33°C 1998	24°C 2009	87%
Dec 23	29°C	26°C	33°C 2016	24°C 2004	86%
Dec 24	29°C	26°C	33°C 2016	25°C 2010	86%
Dec 25	29°C	26°C	33°C 2016	25°C 1991	85%
Dec 26	29°C	26°C	32°C 1994	24°C 1991	85%
Dec 27	29°C	26°C	34°C 1994	24°C 1991	86%
Dec 28	29°C	26°C	33°C 1998	24°C 2017	87%
Dec 29	29°C	26°C	33°C 1993	24°C 2017	88%
Dec 30	29°C	26°C	34°C 1993	23°C 2007	89%
Dec 31	29°C	26°C	34°C 1993	24°C 2006	90%

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 5:57 PM
December 31: sunrise 5:19 AM, sunset 6:12 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.