Kitwe Weather in December

NASA POWER reanalysis for the half-degree grid cell around Kitwe, 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 26°C on December 31, and lows from 18°C to 18°C. Normal precipitation for the month is 251 mm over about 28 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: 27°C
Average low: 18°C
Precipitation: 251 mm
Reanalysis high: 37°CDec 6, 1999
Reanalysis low: 13°CDec 1, 1992
Daylight: 12 h 50 min to 12 h 52 min
Cloud cover: 86%
Humidity: 79%
Dew point: 18°C
Wind: 10.1 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	18°C	35°C 2002	13°C 1992	78%
Dec 2	29°C	18°C	36°C 2002	15°C 2006	78%
Dec 3	29°C	18°C	35°C 2002	16°C 2003	79%
Dec 4	29°C	18°C	35°C 2002	15°C 1993	79%
Dec 5	29°C	18°C	36°C 1999	17°C 2008	81%
Dec 6	28°C	18°C	37°C 1999	16°C 1996	82%
Dec 7	28°C	18°C	36°C 1999	15°C 2014	85%
Dec 8	28°C	18°C	35°C 1999	17°C 1996	86%
Dec 9	28°C	18°C	36°C 1999	17°C 2008	88%
Dec 10	28°C	18°C	34°C 1999	17°C 2005	88%
Dec 11	27°C	18°C	31°C 2005	16°C 1997	87%
Dec 12	27°C	18°C	32°C 2016	17°C 1994	88%
Dec 13	27°C	18°C	29°C 1993	15°C 1995	89%
Dec 14	27°C	18°C	31°C 2014	15°C 1997	89%
Dec 15	27°C	18°C	31°C 2014	15°C 2010	90%
Dec 16	27°C	18°C	29°C 2005	16°C 2010	91%
Dec 17	27°C	18°C	30°C 1994	14°C 1994	91%
Dec 18	27°C	18°C	32°C 1994	14°C 2004	91%
Dec 19	26°C	18°C	32°C 1994	15°C 1994	92%
Dec 20	26°C	18°C	32°C 1994	16°C 1999	91%
Dec 21	26°C	18°C	32°C 1999	15°C 1999	92%
Dec 22	26°C	18°C	33°C 1999	16°C 1999	91%
Dec 23	26°C	18°C	30°C 1998	17°C 2012	91%
Dec 24	26°C	18°C	31°C 1999	16°C 2012	91%
Dec 25	26°C	18°C	32°C 2016	16°C 1996	92%
Dec 26	26°C	18°C	31°C 1999	16°C 2011	92%
Dec 27	26°C	18°C	34°C 1999	16°C 2016	92%
Dec 28	26°C	18°C	31°C 1999	16°C 2008	92%
Dec 29	26°C	18°C	30°C 1999	16°C 2018	92%
Dec 30	26°C	18°C	29°C 2015	17°C 2006	92%
Dec 31	26°C	18°C	31°C 1999	17°C 2015	92%

Chance of rain

Chance of a wet day

Sunrise and sunset

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

December 1: sunrise 5:31 AM, sunset 6:21 PM
December 31: sunrise 5:44 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 2026-09-25. Sun and moon: computed with the NOAA solar equations and Meeus.