Climate averages 1991–2020
Gweru weather
in December.
A warm, very wet month: the 4th warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a warm month in Gweru: daytime highs average 25.9°C and nights cool to about 16.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 184 mm of rain on roughly 18 days, which makes December a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 17 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Kwekwe (58 km away). In December its highs average 28.0°C, 2.1°C warmer than Gweru, with 163 mm of rain.
Among the 11 cities listed in Zimbabwe, Gweru ranks joint 7th of 11 for the warmest December highs and joint 8th of 11 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 11 cities is 26.4°C; Gweru is 0.5°C cooler than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 0.5°C to 25.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 184 mm to 161 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
Gweru climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 25.3°C16.4°C | 16.4°C | 161 | 15.7 | 13.213 h |
| February | 25.3°C16.2°C | 16.2°C | 122 | 12.9 | 12.713 h |
| March | 24.8°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 82 | 10.5 | 12.212 h |
| April | 23.4°C13.1°C | 13.1°C | 28 | 4.0 | 11.712 h |
| May | 22.0°C10.5°C | 10.5°C | 6.8 | 1.4 | 11.211 h |
| June | 19.9°C8.1°C | 8.1°C | 3.7 | 0.7 | 11.011 h |
| July | 19.4°C7.5°C | 7.5°C | 2.9 | 0.9 | 11.111 h |
| August | 23.2°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 0.6 | 0.1 | 11.511 h |
| September | 27.0°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 4.4 | 0.8 | 12.012 h |
| October | 28.4°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 25 | 4.8 | 12.513 h |
| November | 27.5°C16.3°C | 16.3°C | 98 | 12.3 | 13.013 h |
| December, selected | 25.9°C16.4°C | 16.4°C | 184 | 17.6 | 13.313 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
- Kwekwe in DecemberZimbabwe · 58 kmHigh 28.0°C · Low 18.0°C · 163 mm rain
- Kadoma in DecemberZimbabwe · 125 kmHigh 27.8°C · Low 18.8°C · 184 mm rain
- Masvingo in DecemberZimbabwe · 126 kmHigh 27.3°C · Low 17.8°C · 145 mm rain
- Bulawayo in DecemberZimbabwe · 151 kmHigh 26.9°C · Low 17.0°C · 148 mm rain
- Norton in DecemberZimbabwe · 197 kmHigh 25.9°C · Low 17.4°C · 171 mm rain
- Chitungwiza in DecemberZimbabwe · 208 kmHigh 25.4°C · Low 16.5°C · 179 mm rain
- Harare in DecemberZimbabwe · 223 kmHigh 25.1°C · Low 16.3°C · 179 mm rain
- Ruwa in DecemberZimbabwe · 230 kmHigh 24.3°C · Low 15.6°C · 193 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 Gweru) is explained once on the Gweru year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.