Popondetta Weather in December

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

Average highs run from 29°C on December 1 to 28°C on December 31, and lows from 20°C to 20°C. Normal precipitation for the month is 121 mm over about 16 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: 20°C
Precipitation: 121 mm
Reanalysis high: 36°CDec 16, 2012
Reanalysis low: 16°CDec 4, 2014
Daylight: 12 h 36 min to 12 h 38 min
Cloud cover: 80%
Humidity: 81%
Dew point: 19°C
Wind: 3.6 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	29°C	20°C	34°C 2002	18°C 2020	37%
Dec 2	29°C	20°C	33°C 2002	18°C 2012	38%
Dec 3	29°C	20°C	34°C 2002	17°C 1998	38%
Dec 4	29°C	20°C	34°C 2017	16°C 2014	38%
Dec 5	29°C	20°C	33°C 2015	18°C 2001	40%
Dec 6	29°C	20°C	33°C 2002	17°C 2003	40%
Dec 7	28°C	20°C	33°C 2019	16°C 2007	41%
Dec 8	28°C	20°C	33°C 1991	17°C 2007	42%
Dec 9	28°C	20°C	32°C 2004	18°C 2015	43%
Dec 10	28°C	20°C	32°C 2001	17°C 2014	44%
Dec 11	28°C	20°C	31°C 1991	18°C 2004	44%
Dec 12	28°C	20°C	33°C 1994	17°C 2004	44%
Dec 13	28°C	20°C	35°C 1994	18°C 2006	44%
Dec 14	28°C	20°C	34°C 1994	18°C 2017	45%
Dec 15	28°C	20°C	35°C 1994	18°C 2010	46%
Dec 16	28°C	20°C	36°C 2012	18°C 1991	46%
Dec 17	28°C	20°C	34°C 2012	17°C 2017	48%
Dec 18	28°C	20°C	32°C 2012	16°C 2017	48%
Dec 19	28°C	20°C	33°C 2015	18°C 2006	49%
Dec 20	28°C	20°C	32°C 2015	18°C 2002	49%
Dec 21	28°C	20°C	33°C 2015	18°C 2018	50%
Dec 22	28°C	20°C	32°C 1997	18°C 1997	51%
Dec 23	28°C	20°C	32°C 1997	18°C 1999	52%
Dec 24	28°C	20°C	33°C 2015	18°C 2005	53%
Dec 25	28°C	20°C	34°C 2015	18°C 2018	54%
Dec 26	28°C	20°C	35°C 2019	19°C 1998	56%
Dec 27	28°C	20°C	32°C 1994	18°C 2020	57%
Dec 28	28°C	20°C	31°C 1994	18°C 2007	58%
Dec 29	28°C	20°C	32°C 2019	17°C 2019	59%
Dec 30	28°C	20°C	32°C 2015	19°C 1992	59%
Dec 31	28°C	20°C	31°C 1997	18°C 2010	59%

Chance of rain

Chance of a wet day

Sunrise and sunset

Times for 2026, local time (GMT+10).

December 1: sunrise 5:38 AM, sunset 6:14 PM
December 31: sunrise 5:51 AM, sunset 6:29 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 2026-09-24. Sun and moon: computed with the NOAA solar equations and Meeus.