Climate averages 1991–2020
Ntuzuma weather
in December.
A warm, wet month: the 4th warmest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a warm month in Ntuzuma: daytime highs average 26.1°C and nights cool to about 19.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 94 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes December a wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 01 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Pinetown (11 km away). In December its highs average 24.9°C, 1.2°C cooler than Ntuzuma, with 94 mm of rain.
Among the 95 cities listed in South Africa, Ntuzuma ranks joint 48th of 95 for the warmest December highs and joint 31st of 95 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 95 cities is 26.6°C; Ntuzuma is 0.6°C cooler than that mean.
From December to January, average highs rise by 1.0°C to 27.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 94 mm to 91 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
Ntuzuma climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 27.0°C20.1°C | 20.1°C | 91 | 13.0 | 13.814 h |
| February | 27.4°C20.5°C | 20.5°C | 84 | 11.4 | 13.113 h |
| March | 26.8°C19.4°C | 19.4°C | 90 | 11.4 | 12.312 h |
| April | 25.0°C16.9°C | 16.9°C | 74 | 8.5 | 11.411 h |
| May | 24.0°C14.1°C | 14.1°C | 43 | 5.4 | 10.611 h |
| June | 22.4°C11.3°C | 11.3°C | 28 | 4.6 | 10.310 h |
| July | 22.0°C10.8°C | 10.8°C | 42 | 4.7 | 10.410 h |
| August | 23.0°C12.3°C | 12.3°C | 34 | 5.9 | 11.111 h |
| September | 23.6°C14.3°C | 14.3°C | 60 | 8.6 | 11.912 h |
| October | 23.7°C15.9°C | 15.9°C | 89 | 12.5 | 12.813 h |
| November | 24.8°C17.3°C | 17.3°C | 96 | 13.4 | 13.614 h |
| December, selected | 26.1°C19.1°C | 19.1°C | 94 | 13.1 | 14.014 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
- Pinetown in DecemberSouth Africa · 11 kmHigh 24.9°C · Low 18.5°C · 94 mm rain
- Durban in DecemberSouth Africa · 15 kmHigh 25.5°C · Low 20.5°C · 94 mm rain
- Mpumalanga in DecemberSouth Africa · 31 kmHigh 24.7°C · Low 16.0°C · 102 mm rain
- Pietermaritzburg in DecemberSouth Africa · 55 kmHigh 25.8°C · Low 16.2°C · 129 mm rain
- KwaDukuza in DecemberSouth Africa · 56 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 20.0°C · 99 mm rain
- Richards Bay in DecemberSouth Africa · 150 kmHigh 27.8°C · Low 21.4°C · 86 mm rain
- Ladysmith in DecemberSouth Africa · 174 kmHigh 27.9°C · Low 15.8°C · 179 mm rain
- Dundee, South Africa in DecemberSouth Africa · 188 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 15.1°C · 154 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 Ntuzuma) is explained once on the Ntuzuma year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Durban and Pinetown lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.