Climate averages 1991–2020

Balikpapan weather
in January.

A hot, very wet month: the joint 6th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 28.3°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 23.9°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 258 mm 28 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a hot month in Balikpapan: daytime highs average 28.3°C and nights cool to about 23.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 6th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 258 mm of rain on roughly 28 days, which makes January a very wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 11 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Nusantara (35 km away). In January its highs average 29.5°C, 1.2°C warmer than Balikpapan, with 323 mm of rain.

Among the 200 cities listed in Indonesia, Balikpapan ranks joint 127th of 200 for the warmest January highs and 40th of 200 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 200 cities is 28.2°C; Balikpapan is level with that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.2°C to 28.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 258 mm to 228 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Balikpapan climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Balikpapan, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	28.3°C23.9°C	23.9°C	258	27.5	12.212 h
February	28.5°C24.0°C	24.0°C	228	24.0	12.212 h
March	28.6°C24.1°C	24.1°C	271	27.8	12.112 h
April	28.6°C24.2°C	24.2°C	264	27.5	12.112 h
May	28.3°C24.6°C	24.6°C	198	27.6	12.112 h
June	27.9°C24.4°C	24.4°C	172	24.9	12.012 h
July	27.5°C24.3°C	24.3°C	142	22.3	12.112 h
August	27.8°C24.6°C	24.6°C	101	17.9	12.112 h
September	28.2°C24.6°C	24.6°C	109	17.0	12.112 h
October	28.4°C24.5°C	24.5°C	158	22.3	12.112 h
November	28.3°C24.1°C	24.1°C	218	27.5	12.212 h
December	28.4°C24.1°C	24.1°C	268	28.8	12.212 h

Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.

Compare places

January in nearby cities

Distance from Balikpapan

Read the numbers correctly

Climate, not a promise.

These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.

Sources, method and limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Balikpapan) is explained once on the Balikpapan year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.