Climate averages 1991–2020

Bengkulu weather
in January.

A hot, very wet month: the 9th warmest and the 10th driest of the year.

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

Average high 28.0°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 23.2°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 284 mm 26 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a hot month in Bengkulu: daytime highs average 28.0°C and nights cool to about 23.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 284 mm of rain on roughly 26 days, which makes January a very wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 19 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Lubuklinggau (87 km away). In January its highs average 28.0°C, about as warm as Bengkulu, with 312 mm of rain.

Among the 200 cities listed in Indonesia, Bengkulu ranks joint 143rd of 200 for the warmest January highs and joint 72nd of 200 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 200 cities is 28.2°C; Bengkulu is 0.2°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.4°C to 28.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 284 mm to 250 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

Bengkulu climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Bengkulu, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	28.0°C23.2°C	23.2°C	284	26.1	12.312 h
February	28.4°C23.4°C	23.4°C	250	22.1	12.212 h
March	28.6°C23.6°C	23.6°C	244	24.0	12.112 h
April	28.6°C23.7°C	23.7°C	235	24.8	12.012 h
May	29.0°C23.8°C	23.8°C	209	23.0	11.912 h
June	28.8°C23.5°C	23.5°C	160	19.0	11.912 h
July	28.3°C23.1°C	23.1°C	159	19.2	11.912 h
August	28.2°C23.1°C	23.1°C	188	18.9	12.012 h
September	28.1°C23.2°C	23.2°C	197	20.5	12.112 h
October	27.9°C23.2°C	23.2°C	255	23.9	12.212 h
November	27.7°C23.1°C	23.1°C	348	27.2	12.312 h
December	27.5°C23.1°C	23.1°C	328	26.6	12.312 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 Bengkulu

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 Bengkulu) is explained once on the Bengkulu year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.