The sun-drenched Cape Verde has a subtropical dry climate. This means that you can enjoy fine weather in December on the Cape Verde islands. The average daily temperature in December is 26 degrees Celsius and there is a dry wind. A great month to spend your vacation on one of the Cape Verde islands. Cape Verde consists of the islands Sal, Boa Vista, São Nicolau, São Vicente, Santo Antão, Santiago, Maio, Fogo and Brava.
What kind of weather can you expect in Cape Verde in December? Below you will find the averages of the most important meteorological variables. These are the average daytime maximum, the sea temperature and the days of rain, as the climate table gives them. The weather data for the month of December is based on historical weather data and does not provide an actual weather forecast for Cape Verde.
In short
- Temperatures 26.1°C
- Dry, sunny and pleasant
- Winds start to pick up again
- Sea temperature 24.5°C
- Popular month for travel
Temperature in December
The average daytime maximum in December is 26.1 degrees Celsius. Pleasantly warm, and clearly cooler than late summer.
Maximum temperature — day by day within the month
Rain in December
December stands at 0 days of rain in the climate table. Around Christmas and New Year a shower is a rarity.
Rainfall — day by day within the month
Wind in December
The wind strengthens further in December, which makes it a good month for wind watersports. The climate table carries no wind values.
The weather in Cape Verde in other months
- Cape Verde weather January
- Cape Verde weather in February
- Cape Verde weather in March
- Cape Verde weather in April
- Cape Verde weather in May
- Cape Verde weather in June
- Cape Verde weather in July
- Cape Verde weather in August
- Cape Verde weather in September
- Cape Verde weather in October
- Cape Verde weather in November
Data accounting
Every figure on this page comes from the climate table on Cape Verde climate and weather: measuring station Sal, Amílcar Cabral airport (Espargos), reference period the 1991–2020 climate normal. A day of rain is a day with at least 1 millimetre of rainfall. Those values hold for Sal and for the flat eastern islands. The other islands have no measuring series of their own, so we give no figures island by island. On the mountainous islands such as Santo Antão and Fogo it is cooler and wetter at altitude.
The graph above shows something different from the table: how the month runs day by day, taken from the historical daily reports of weather station 85940 over 2012 to 2018. That series is not a climate normal and is not the source of any figure in the text; it is there to show whether a month runs flat or erratic.