Climate averages 1991–2020

Denpasar weather
in January.

A warm, very wet month: the joint 7th warmest and the wettest of the year.

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

Average high 27.2°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 24.3°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 279 mm 27 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Denpasar: daytime highs average 27.2°C and nights cool to about 24.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 7th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 279 mm of rain on roughly 27 days, which makes January a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 34 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Ubud (16 km away). In January its highs average 27.9°C, 0.6°C warmer than Denpasar, with 391 mm of rain.

Among the 200 cities listed in Indonesia, Denpasar ranks joint 167th of 200 for the warmest January highs and joint 60th of 200 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 200 cities is 28.2°C; Denpasar is 1.0°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.1°C to 27.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 279 mm to 237 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

Denpasar climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Denpasar, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	27.2°C24.3°C	24.3°C	279	27.3	12.613 h
February	27.4°C24.3°C	24.3°C	237	24.6	12.412 h
March	27.5°C24.4°C	24.4°C	197	24.5	12.212 h
April	27.6°C24.7°C	24.7°C	121	19.0	11.912 h
May	27.4°C24.7°C	24.7°C	61	14.2	11.712 h
June	26.7°C24.2°C	24.2°C	46	12.7	11.612 h
July	26.0°C23.5°C	23.5°C	39	12.3	11.712 h
August	25.8°C23.0°C	23.0°C	28	11.4	11.812 h
September	26.4°C23.1°C	23.1°C	39	11.4	12.012 h
October	27.2°C23.6°C	23.6°C	56	14.9	12.312 h
November	27.5°C24.2°C	24.2°C	144	20.5	12.513 h
December	27.3°C24.4°C	24.4°C	248	25.6	12.613 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 Denpasar

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