Weather in Nakuru in December

A good month. December is a solid month to be in Nakuru. You should expect rain on 16 days of the month, which is more days wet than dry.

December ranks 3 of 12 in Nakuru. Only January scores clearly higher, and the difference is small enough to be settled by price rather than weather.

This is persistent light rain rather than storms: 16 wet days but only 2 heavy ones. It rarely cancels anything outright, and it rarely fully clears either. A jacket beats an umbrella. 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 30.8 °C and the coldest night fell to 8.3 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 57 mm — roughly 60% of the month's rain in one day.

This is the volatile part. December rainfall has ranged from 8 mm to 366 mm across the twenty years measured — a 358 mm spread around an average of 95 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 7.2 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 76%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How December sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 25 °C in November, 25.6 here, 26.9 in January. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much. Rain is the thing that moves: January brings 6 days less of it, so pushing the dates later buys drier weather.

Daylight in December

Nakuru sits close enough to the equator that daylight barely moves all year — 12.1 hours in December, against a range of just 0 hours across the whole calendar. Sunrise and sunset land at roughly the same time whenever you come.

An inland climate

Despite being inland, the year stays fairly even: 15.3 °C between the year's warmest afternoons and coldest nights. At 1802 m, altitude is doing as much work here as latitude: thinner air means fierce sun by day and heat that leaves the moment it sets.

How busy it gets

Shoulder. The value months — prices ease off and you get the place closer to itself. December is the value pick for Nakuru: it scores within 11 points of January without carrying January's prices.

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

December in Nakuru versus nearby

If Nakuru is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Nairobi is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day less rain. Kakamega is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 3 days less rain.

So: December works, with January the better month by 11 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

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