Weather in Jabalpur in December
India · 20-year averages, December
Prime time. If you get to pick your dates, December is the one. Highs average 27.4 °C, lows 11.2 °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 November, and the month at the other end of the year is June.
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: the day swings 16.2 °C from low to high, which means one bag has to cover both. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest December day reached 32.3 °C and the coldest night fell to 2.2 °C.
December is dependably dry, and that reliability is the point: across the twenty years measured, the wettest December on record still only managed 15 mm, and the driest managed 0 mm. There is no meaningful variability to plan around, which makes this one of the few months anywhere that you can build a fixed outdoor itinerary against without a fallback. The wettest single day in twenty years of Decembers brought 12 mm. Rain simply is not the variable that decides this trip — heat, crowds and cost are.
Wind is light at 5.4 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 54%.
How December sits in the year
Temperatures hold steady either side: 28.3 °C in November, 27.4 here, 27.4 in January. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.
Daylight in December
December sits at the dark end of Jabalpur's year — 10.7 hours of daylight against 13.5 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 — 32.7 °C between the warmest afternoons and the coldest nights, wider than any coastal city at this latitude would manage. Within December itself the daily swing is 16.2 °C, so mornings and afternoons need different clothes.
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 Jabalpur versus nearby
If Jabalpur is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Nagpur is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, the same number of rain days. Bhopal is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, the same number of rain days.
So: December is the answer for Jabalpur. If it is booked out or priced out, November is the next best thing at 4 points behind, and June is the month to keep off the shortlist.
Every month in Jabalpur
| Month | High °C | Low °C | Rain days | Rain mm | Humidity % | Daylight h | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 27.4 | 10.5 | 3 | 19 | 45 | 10.9 | 92 |
| February | 31.1 | 13.6 | 3 | 19 | 38 | 11.4 | 75 |
| March | 35.8 | 18.1 | 4 | 19 | 30 | 12 | 48 |
| April | 40.9 | 23.5 | 2 | 8 | 21 | 12.7 | 30 |
| May | 43.2 | 27.9 | 4 | 17 | 23 | 13.2 | 30 |
| June | 38 | 27.2 | 17 | 177 | 53 | 13.5 | 16 |
| July | 31.1 | 24.3 | 26 | 409 | 83 | 13.4 | 44 |
| August | 29.6 | 23.7 | 25 | 404 | 89 | 13 | 45 |
| September | 29.7 | 22.5 | 18 | 222 | 85 | 12.3 | 48 |
| October | 29.3 | 18.7 | 5 | 33 | 74 | 11.6 | 80 |
| November | 28.3 | 14.5 | 1 | 6 | 63 | 11 | 93 |
| December | 27.4 | 11.2 | 1 | 5 | 54 | 10.7 | 97 |
See all twelve months in Jabalpur, or where else to go in December.
Planning the rest of the trip
- Where to eat & stay in Jabalpur every café, restaurant and hotel
- Flight time to Jabalpur how long you are actually in the air
- Jabalpur time zone and the difference from home
- Days until your trip count down to the departure date