Kafue Weather in December

NASA POWER reanalysis for the half-degree grid cell around Kafue, 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 28°C on December 31, and lows from 20°C to 19°C. Normal precipitation for the month is 174 mm over about 22 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: 29°C
Average low: 20°C
Precipitation: 174 mm
Reanalysis high: 38°CDec 10, 2015
Reanalysis low: 15°CDec 1, 1992
Daylight: 13 h 00 min to 13 h 03 min
Cloud cover: 80%
Humidity: 71%
Dew point: 18°C
Wind: 11.9 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	20°C	36°C 2013	15°C 1992	59%
Dec 2	31°C	20°C	37°C 2016	16°C 1992	59%
Dec 3	31°C	20°C	37°C 1997	17°C 2003	60%
Dec 4	31°C	20°C	37°C 1997	17°C 2003	61%
Dec 5	31°C	20°C	36°C 2014	17°C 1994	63%
Dec 6	31°C	20°C	36°C 2014	16°C 1994	66%
Dec 7	30°C	20°C	37°C 2015	17°C 1998	68%
Dec 8	30°C	20°C	38°C 2015	18°C 1998	70%
Dec 9	30°C	20°C	37°C 2015	18°C 2010	71%
Dec 10	30°C	20°C	38°C 2015	18°C 2010	72%
Dec 11	30°C	20°C	37°C 2015	18°C 2002	74%
Dec 12	30°C	20°C	36°C 2015	17°C 1995	75%
Dec 13	29°C	20°C	34°C 1997	16°C 1994	75%
Dec 14	29°C	20°C	35°C 1997	16°C 1994	76%
Dec 15	29°C	20°C	35°C 1991	16°C 1993	76%
Dec 16	29°C	19°C	35°C 1991	16°C 1994	76%
Dec 17	29°C	19°C	35°C 1994	17°C 2000	76%
Dec 18	29°C	19°C	37°C 1994	16°C 1999	75%
Dec 19	29°C	19°C	36°C 1994	17°C 1999	74%
Dec 20	29°C	19°C	36°C 1994	18°C 2011	74%
Dec 21	29°C	19°C	36°C 2001	16°C 1996	73%
Dec 22	29°C	19°C	34°C 1999	17°C 2004	74%
Dec 23	29°C	20°C	34°C 1997	18°C 2010	74%
Dec 24	29°C	20°C	34°C 2006	18°C 2007	74%
Dec 25	29°C	19°C	34°C 1993	18°C 1998	75%
Dec 26	28°C	20°C	33°C 2006	16°C 1992	76%
Dec 27	28°C	19°C	33°C 1999	17°C 1992	75%
Dec 28	28°C	19°C	34°C 1997	17°C 1992	76%
Dec 29	28°C	19°C	33°C 1997	18°C 1991	77%
Dec 30	28°C	19°C	34°C 1999	18°C 2007	78%
Dec 31	28°C	19°C	34°C 2019	16°C 1991	78%

Chance of rain

Chance of a wet day

Sunrise and sunset

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

December 1: sunrise 5:26 AM, sunset 6:26 PM
December 31: sunrise 5:39 AM, sunset 6:42 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.