Weather in Bhubaneswar in December

Prime time. If you get to pick your dates, December is the one. Highs average 25.5 °C, lows 13.3 °C, and rain falls on 1 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

December is the highest-scoring month of the twelve. The nearest rival is January, and the month at the other end of the year is May.

Rain falls on only 1 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. Nothing specialised needed — this is the month you pack for the trip rather than for the weather.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: it never really gets hot: not one day in an average December reaches 30 °C. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest December day reached 31.3 °C and the coldest night fell to 6.6 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 25 mm — roughly 250% of the month's rain in one day.

This is the volatile part. December rainfall has ranged from 0 mm to 41 mm across the twenty years measured — a 41 mm spread around an average of 10 mm. The average is real but almost no individual December looks like it, so treat the figure as the middle of a wide range rather than a forecast.

Wind is light at 4.3 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 73%.

How December sits in the year

This is a turning point in the year — November and January sit on opposite sides of it, so the month contains the change rather than following it.

Daylight in December

December sits at the dark end of Bhubaneswar's year — 10.9 hours of daylight against 13.4 at midsummer, holding steady all month. Sightseeing days are genuinely shorter, and an itinerary built for summer will not fit.

An inland climate

With no coast nearby, the year swings a fair way — 27.9 °C between the warmest afternoons and the coldest nights, wider than any coastal city at this latitude would manage.

How busy it gets

Peak season. Expect the highest prices of the year and to be booking well ahead.

Crowd levels are estimated from climate desirability and school-holiday calendars, not from visitor numbers.

December in Bhubaneswar versus nearby

If Bhubaneswar is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Jamshedpur is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, the same number of rain days. Ranchi is close enough to be a coin toss — 2.9 °C cooler, the same number of rain days.

So: December is the answer for Bhubaneswar. If it is booked out or priced out, January is the next best thing at 1 points behind, and May is the month to keep off the shortlist.

Every month in Bhubaneswar

See all twelve months in Bhubaneswar, or where else to go in December.