Kapiri Mposhi Weather in December

NASA POWER reanalysis for the half-degree grid cell around Kapiri Mposhi, 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 18°C to 18°C. Normal precipitation for the month is 230 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: 230 mm
Reanalysis high: 37°CDec 6, 1999
Reanalysis low: 14°CDec 1, 2006
Daylight: 12 h 53 min to 12 h 56 min
Cloud cover: 86%
Humidity: 77%
Dew point: 17°C
Wind: 8.6 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	30°C	18°C	35°C 2013	14°C 2006	65%
Dec 2	30°C	18°C	35°C 2016	15°C 2006	65%
Dec 3	30°C	18°C	36°C 2011	16°C 1995	66%
Dec 4	29°C	18°C	35°C 2016	16°C 2008	67%
Dec 5	29°C	18°C	35°C 1999	15°C 1998	69%
Dec 6	29°C	18°C	37°C 1999	15°C 1996	72%
Dec 7	29°C	18°C	35°C 1994	16°C 1991	75%
Dec 8	29°C	18°C	36°C 2014	16°C 1996	77%
Dec 9	29°C	18°C	35°C 2015	17°C 2016	79%
Dec 10	29°C	18°C	36°C 2015	17°C 1991	79%
Dec 11	28°C	18°C	36°C 2015	17°C 1997	80%
Dec 12	28°C	18°C	33°C 2015	16°C 1994	80%
Dec 13	28°C	18°C	31°C 1997	15°C 1994	80%
Dec 14	28°C	18°C	32°C 2018	15°C 1994	81%
Dec 15	28°C	18°C	32°C 1991	14°C 2010	82%
Dec 16	28°C	18°C	31°C 1991	15°C 1994	82%
Dec 17	28°C	18°C	33°C 1994	14°C 1994	83%
Dec 18	28°C	18°C	35°C 1994	14°C 2004	84%
Dec 19	28°C	18°C	35°C 1994	16°C 2019	83%
Dec 20	28°C	18°C	34°C 1994	15°C 1996	83%
Dec 21	28°C	18°C	34°C 1994	15°C 1996	83%
Dec 22	28°C	18°C	33°C 1999	15°C 2004	83%
Dec 23	28°C	18°C	32°C 1994	16°C 2011	83%
Dec 24	28°C	18°C	33°C 2016	17°C 2006	83%
Dec 25	28°C	18°C	35°C 2016	16°C 2010	84%
Dec 26	28°C	18°C	31°C 1999	16°C 2010	84%
Dec 27	28°C	18°C	33°C 1999	16°C 1992	84%
Dec 28	28°C	18°C	31°C 1994	16°C 2005	85%
Dec 29	27°C	18°C	31°C 1997	16°C 2018	84%
Dec 30	27°C	18°C	32°C 1999	16°C 2002	84%
Dec 31	27°C	18°C	32°C 1999	14°C 2017	85%

Chance of rain

Chance of a wet day

Sunrise and sunset

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

December 1: sunrise 5:28 AM, sunset 6:21 PM
December 31: sunrise 5:40 AM, sunset 6:36 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 2026-09-26. Sun and moon: computed with the NOAA solar equations and Meeus.