Climate averages 1991–2020
Kampala weather
in December.
A warm, wet month: the 5th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a warm month in Kampala: daytime highs average 24.1°C and nights cool to about 18.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 133 mm of rain on roughly 24 days, which makes December a wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 06 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Nansana (8 km away). In December its highs average 24.6°C, about as warm as Kampala, with 133 mm of rain.
Among the 21 cities listed in Uganda, Kampala ranks joint 20th of 21 for the warmest December highs and joint 12th of 21 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 21 cities is 25.9°C; Kampala is 1.8°C cooler than that mean.
From December to January, average highs rise by 0.8°C to 24.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 133 mm to 108 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
Kampala climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 24.9°C18.4°C | 18.4°C | 108 | 19.6 | 12.112 h |
| February | 25.5°C19.0°C | 19.0°C | 104 | 18.6 | 12.112 h |
| March | 24.8°C19.1°C | 19.1°C | 165 | 25.1 | 12.112 h |
| April | 23.7°C18.9°C | 18.9°C | 220 | 27.7 | 12.112 h |
| May | 23.5°C18.5°C | 18.5°C | 188 | 27.8 | 12.112 h |
| June | 23.5°C17.9°C | 17.9°C | 115 | 22.5 | 12.112 h |
| July | 23.4°C17.5°C | 17.5°C | 83 | 17.7 | 12.112 h |
| August | 23.8°C17.6°C | 17.6°C | 109 | 22.7 | 12.112 h |
| September | 24.2°C18.0°C | 18.0°C | 121 | 25.0 | 12.112 h |
| October | 23.9°C18.2°C | 18.2°C | 154 | 27.7 | 12.112 h |
| November | 23.7°C18.1°C | 18.1°C | 179 | 26.8 | 12.112 h |
| December, selected | 24.1°C18.1°C | 18.1°C | 133 | 23.9 | 12.112 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
- Nansana in DecemberUganda · 8 kmHigh 24.6°C · Low 16.9°C · 133 mm rain
- Kyengera in DecemberUganda · 9 kmHigh 24.6°C · Low 18.0°C · 133 mm rain
- Kira in DecemberUganda · 11 kmHigh 24.9°C · Low 17.3°C · 145 mm rain
- Kajansi in DecemberUganda · 12 kmHigh 24.5°C · Low 19.0°C · 133 mm rain
- Mukono in DecemberUganda · 20 kmHigh 25.0°C · Low 17.4°C · 154 mm rain
- Katabi in DecemberUganda · 29 kmHigh 24.1°C · Low 19.6°C · 161 mm rain
- Lugazi in DecemberUganda · 40 kmHigh 25.0°C · Low 17.5°C · 176 mm rain
- Mityana in DecemberUganda · 63 kmHigh 25.4°C · Low 17.2°C · 106 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 Kampala) is explained once on the Kampala year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Nansana, Kyengera and Kajansi lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.