Climate averages 1991–2020
Klerksdorp weather
in December.
A hot, wet month: the warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a hot month in Klerksdorp: daytime highs average 29.0°C and nights cool to about 16.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 102 mm of rain on roughly 16 days, which makes December a wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 47 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Stilfontein (10 km away). In December its highs average 28.7°C, about as warm as Klerksdorp, with 102 mm of rain.
Among the 95 cities listed in South Africa, Klerksdorp ranks joint 13th of 95 for the warmest December highs and joint 39th of 95 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 95 cities is 26.6°C; Klerksdorp is 2.4°C warmer than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 0.2°C to 28.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 102 mm to 101 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
Klerksdorp climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 28.8°C17.2°C | 17.2°C | 101 | 14.7 | 13.614 h |
| February | 28.1°C16.7°C | 16.7°C | 83 | 12.5 | 13.013 h |
| March | 26.8°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 70 | 11.1 | 12.312 h |
| April | 24.0°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 38 | 6.5 | 11.511 h |
| May | 21.4°C7.2°C | 7.2°C | 18 | 2.7 | 10.811 h |
| June | 18.7°C3.7°C | 3.7°C | 8.2 | 1.5 | 10.510 h |
| July | 18.8°C3.2°C | 3.2°C | 3.6 | 0.8 | 10.611 h |
| August | 22.2°C6.0°C | 6.0°C | 10 | 1.5 | 11.211 h |
| September | 26.6°C10.3°C | 10.3°C | 14 | 2.7 | 11.912 h |
| October | 28.2°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 59 | 9.0 | 12.713 h |
| November | 28.6°C14.9°C | 14.9°C | 73 | 11.8 | 13.413 h |
| December, selected | 29.0°C16.7°C | 16.7°C | 102 | 15.8 | 13.814 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
- Stilfontein in DecemberSouth Africa · 10 kmHigh 28.7°C · Low 16.5°C · 102 mm rain
- Orkney in DecemberSouth Africa · 14 kmHigh 29.1°C · Low 16.6°C · 98 mm rain
- Potchefstroom in DecemberSouth Africa · 46 kmHigh 28.3°C · Low 16.8°C · 112 mm rain
- Bothaville in DecemberSouth Africa · 60 kmHigh 29.7°C · Low 16.7°C · 89 mm rain
- Parys in DecemberSouth Africa · 79 kmHigh 27.7°C · Low 16.1°C · 129 mm rain
- Carletonville in DecemberSouth Africa · 91 kmHigh 26.2°C · Low 15.5°C · 136 mm rain
- Kroonstad in DecemberSouth Africa · 105 kmHigh 28.4°C · Low 15.8°C · 104 mm rain
- Kutloanong in DecemberSouth Africa · 109 kmHigh 29.4°C · Low 16.3°C · 94 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 Klerksdorp) is explained once on the Klerksdorp year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Stilfontein lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.