Weather in Panjim in December

Prime time. If you get to pick your dates, December is the one. Highs average 30.8 °C, lows 23.8 °C, and rain falls on 1 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

December ranks 2 of 12 in Panjim. Only January scores clearly higher, and the difference is small enough to be settled by price rather than weather.

Rain falls on only 1 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. Pack for 30.8 °C days and 23.8 °C nights; the spread matters more here than any single number.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: 24 days top 30 °C, making the heat continuous rather than occasional. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest December day reached 34.3 °C and the coldest night fell to 19.8 °C.

December is dependably dry, and that reliability is the point: across the twenty years measured, the wettest December on record still only managed 22 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 9 mm. Rain simply is not the variable that decides this trip — heat, crowds and cost are.

Wind is light at 9.5 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 63%.

How December sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 30.6 °C in November, 30.8 here, 30.6 in January. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in December

Panjim sits close enough to the equator that daylight barely moves all year — 11.2 hours in December, against a range of just 1.8 hours across the whole calendar. Sunrise and sunset land at roughly the same time whenever you come.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 28.8 °C in December — warm enough that the water offers no relief from the heat. The sea peaks at 30.1 °C in May and bottoms out at 27.8 °C — water lags the air by a month or two, which is why the best swimming often comes after the best weather.

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 Panjim versus nearby

If Panjim is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Hubballi is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, the same number of rain days. Sholapur is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, the same number of rain days.

So: December is effectively as good as it gets here — 3 points behind January, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.

Every month in Panjim

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