Climate averages 1991–2020
Matola weather
in December.
A hot, wet month: the joint 3rd warmest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a hot month in Matola: daytime highs average 28.7°C and nights cool to about 21.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 3rd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 103 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes December a wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 44 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Maputo (12 km away). In December its highs average 27.9°C, 0.8°C cooler than Matola, with 103 mm of rain.
Among the 22 cities listed in Mozambique, Matola ranks joint 16th of 22 for the warmest December highs and joint 2nd of 22 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 22 cities is 29.9°C; Matola is 1.2°C cooler than that mean.
From December to January, average highs rise by 0.2°C to 28.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 103 mm to 115 mm.
The annual picture
December in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Matola climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 28.8°C22.5°C | 22.5°C | 115 | 11.9 | 13.614 h |
| February | 29.1°C22.7°C | 22.7°C | 95 | 10.6 | 13.013 h |
| March | 28.7°C21.9°C | 21.9°C | 73 | 10.2 | 12.312 h |
| April | 27.0°C19.8°C | 19.8°C | 42 | 6.5 | 11.511 h |
| May | 25.8°C17.4°C | 17.4°C | 23 | 3.3 | 10.911 h |
| June | 24.3°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 12 | 2.5 | 10.511 h |
| July | 23.7°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 11 | 2.6 | 10.711 h |
| August | 25.1°C15.9°C | 15.9°C | 13 | 2.5 | 11.211 h |
| September | 26.6°C17.8°C | 17.8°C | 31 | 3.8 | 11.912 h |
| October | 26.8°C18.9°C | 18.9°C | 51 | 6.8 | 12.713 h |
| November | 27.6°C20.4°C | 20.4°C | 91 | 9.9 | 13.413 h |
| December, selected | 28.7°C21.8°C | 21.8°C | 103 | 10.3 | 13.714 h |
Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.
Compare places
December in nearby cities
- Maputo in DecemberMozambique · 12 kmHigh 27.9°C · Low 21.9°C · 103 mm rain
- Ressano Garcia in DecemberMozambique · 74 kmHigh 31.0°C · Low 21.4°C · 101 mm rain
- Manzini in DecemberEswatini · 123 kmHigh 26.9°C · Low 17.7°C · 124 mm rain
- Mbabane in DecemberEswatini · 138 kmHigh 24.5°C · Low 15.5°C · 208 mm rain
- Xai-Xai in DecemberMozambique · 156 kmHigh 30.1°C · Low 22.8°C · 111 mm rain
- Mbombela in DecemberSouth Africa · 159 kmHigh 27.7°C · Low 18.2°C · 151 mm rain
- Chibuto in DecemberMozambique · 178 kmHigh 30.4°C · Low 21.9°C · 104 mm rain
- Piet Retief in DecemberSouth Africa · 201 kmHigh 24.9°C · Low 14.8°C · 155 mm rain
Read the numbers correctly
Climate, not a promise.
These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.
Sources, method and limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Matola) is explained once on the Matola year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Maputo lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.