Pontianak Barat, Indonesia Climate
The warmest month is May, with an average high of 33°C; the coldest is January, with an average low of 23°C. A normal year brings 3176 mm of precipitation.
Temperature through the year
The normal daily high and low and the record for every date at Pontianak, since 1973. The line marks today.
- Normal low
- Normal high
- Record high
- Record low
Normals for Oct 2
- Normal high
- 33°C
- Record high
- 35°Cin 2023
- Record low
- 21°Cin 1979
- Chance of a wet day
- 74%
- Daylight
- 12 h 06 min
Month by month
Averages for 1991-2020. Wet days have at least 1 mm of precipitation in the reanalysis. Each month links to its own page.
| Month | Avg high | Avg low | Record high | Record low | Precipitation | Wet days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 32°C | 23°C | 35°C (2019) | 19°C (1981) | 327 mm | 24.6 |
| February | 32°C | 39°C (1984) | 19°C (1980) | 241 mm | 20.7 | |
| March | 33°C | 36°C (2013) | 19°C (1989) | 246 mm | 22.4 | |
| April | 33°C | 36°C (2019) | 21°C (1989) | 281 mm | 25.5 | |
| May | 33°C | 36°C (1998) | 20°C (1979) | 267 mm | 24.0 | |
| June | 33°C | 37°C (1981) | 20°C (1989) | 215 mm | 19.8 | |
| July | 33°C | 36°C (2009) | 18°C (1986) | 198 mm | 17.7 | |
| August | 33°C | 36°C (2016) | 19°C (2002) | 175 mm | 17.3 | |
| September | 33°C | 38°C (1979) | 19°C (1980) | 189 mm | 19.7 | |
| October | 32°C | 36°C (2023) | 19°C (1986) | 330 mm | 26.3 | |
| November | 32°C | 35°C (2023) | 20°C (1993) | 362 mm | 28.1 | |
| December | 32°C | 35°C (2000) | 20°C (1981) | 345 mm | 27.7 | |
| Year | 32°C | 3176 mm | 274 |
Precipitation
Rain and melted snow together. The chance of a wet day is the share of days with at least 1 mm of precipitation in the reanalysis.
3176 mm in a normal year, most in November.
Chance of a wet day
- Chance of a wet day
Humidity and comfort
NASA POWER reanalysis, 1991-2020, for the grid cell around Pontianak Barat.
The muggiest month is January, when 100 percent of days are muggy or worse, with a mean dew point of 18°C or more.
| Month | Dew point | Humidity | Dry | Comfortable | Humid | Muggy | Oppressive | Miserable |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 24°C | 91% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 32% | 68% |
| February | 24°C | 90% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 37% | 63% |
| March | 24°C | 89% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 20% | 80% |
| April | 25°C | 90% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 6% | 94% |
| May | 25°C | 90% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 2% | 98% |
| June | 25°C | 90% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 10% | 90% |
| July | 24°C | 90% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 34% | 66% |
| August | 24°C | 89% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 39% | 61% |
| September | 24°C | 89% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 35% | 65% |
| October | 24°C | 90% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 23% | 77% |
| November | 24°C | 91% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 15% | 85% |
| December | 24°C | 91% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 19% | 81% |
Comfort is judged by the day's mean dew point: dry below 13°C, comfortable to 16°C, humid to 18°C, muggy to 21°C, oppressive to 24°C, miserable above.
Clouds
Average share of the sky covered, from satellite (CERES and GEWEX SRB) by way of NASA POWER, 1991-2020.
The clearest month is July, with the sky 75 percent covered on average; the cloudiest is December, at 91 percent.
Wind
The mean wind speed over the whole day, from the MERRA-2 reanalysis by way of NASA POWER. Gusts run well above it.
The windiest month is January, averaging 4.7 km/h at 10 meters (33 feet) above the ground.
Daylight and sunshine
The longest day is Jan 1, with 12 h 08 min of daylight; the shortest is Feb 12, with 12 h 06 min.
- Day length
Solar energy
Average daily sunshine reaching the ground on a flat surface, in kilowatt-hours per square meter, clouds included.
Month pages
The weather in Pontianak Barat in each month, day by day.
What this means
A normal is the average of the thirty years 1991 to 2020, the period the World Meteorological Organization and NOAA use for comparison. It is an average, not a forecast: most days depart from it, and some by a long way.
A record is the highest or lowest value on the date in every year the station has reported, back to 1973. It rests on one station, so a neighbor a few miles away can hold different ones.
Cloud, humidity, wind and sunshine come from a reanalysis: a weather model run over the past with every observation fed in, averaged over a grid cell about 50 km across. It is consistent everywhere on Earth; it smooths local detail such as a lake shore or a valley.
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Sources
Records: NOAA GHCN-Daily, station IDM00096581, every year on file, quality-flagged values removed. Cloud, humidity, wind and sunshine: NASA POWER (MERRA-2, CERES and GEWEX SRB), 1991-2020. The data was obtained from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center's Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) project funded through the NASA Earth Science Division: POWER Daily API v2, accessed 2026-09-26. Sun and moon: computed with the NOAA solar equations and Meeus.