Weather in Vijayawada in December

Prime time. December is about as good as Vijayawada gets. Highs average 29.7 °C, lows 17.9 °C, and rain falls on 2 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 June.

Rain falls on only 2 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. Pack for 29.7 °C days and 17.9 °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: 14 days top 30 °C — hot spells arrive, but they break. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest December day reached 35.3 °C and the coldest night fell to 11.3 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 66 mm — roughly 314% of the month's rain in one day.

This is the volatile part. December rainfall has ranged from 0 mm to 128 mm across the twenty years measured — a 128 mm spread around an average of 21 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 6.2 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 75%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How December sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 29.8 °C in November, 29.7 here, 31.5 in January. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much. Rain has already shifted: 5 days fewer than November had.

Daylight in December

Vijayawada sits close enough to the equator that daylight barely moves all year — 11.2 hours in December, against a range of just 1.9 hours across the whole calendar. Sunrise and sunset land at roughly the same time whenever you come.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 27 °C in December — warm enough that the water offers no relief from the heat. The sea peaks at 30.2 °C in May and bottoms out at 26.5 °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 Vijayawada versus nearby

If Vijayawada is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Hyderabad is a better bet in December — within a degree on temperature, 1 day less rain. Rasapūdipalem is a better bet in December — 3.4 °C cooler, the same number of rain days.

So: December is the answer for Vijayawada. If it is booked out or priced out, January is the next best thing at 5 points behind, and June is the month to keep off the shortlist.

Every month in Vijayawada

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