Climate averages 1991–2020
Jakarta weather
in May.
A hot, wet month: the joint 6th warmest and the 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a hot month in Jakarta: daytime highs average 29.7°C and nights cool to about 23.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 118 mm of rain on roughly 21 days, which makes May a wet month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 50 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Bekasi (16 km away). In May its highs average 29.8°C, about as warm as Jakarta, with 124 mm of rain.
Among the 200 cities listed in Indonesia, Jakarta ranks joint 83rd of 200 for the warmest May highs and joint 56th of 200 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 200 cities is 29.2°C; Jakarta is 0.6°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs stay level at 29.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 118 mm to 85 mm.
The annual picture
May in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Jakarta climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 28.4°C23.5°C | 23.5°C | 298 | 28.3 | 12.412 h |
| February | 28.5°C23.5°C | 23.5°C | 280 | 27.1 | 12.312 h |
| March | 29.2°C23.6°C | 23.6°C | 243 | 28.4 | 12.112 h |
| April | 29.5°C23.7°C | 23.7°C | 201 | 25.9 | 12.012 h |
| May, selected | 29.7°C23.6°C | 23.6°C | 118 | 20.9 | 11.812 h |
| June | 29.7°C23.3°C | 23.3°C | 85 | 14.7 | 11.812 h |
| July | 29.9°C23.0°C | 23.0°C | 67 | 12.4 | 11.812 h |
| August | 30.6°C23.1°C | 23.1°C | 43 | 8.8 | 11.912 h |
| September | 31.2°C23.4°C | 23.4°C | 57 | 11.1 | 12.112 h |
| October | 31.0°C23.8°C | 23.8°C | 129 | 18.5 | 12.212 h |
| November | 29.9°C23.8°C | 23.8°C | 216 | 25.7 | 12.412 h |
| December | 28.9°C23.7°C | 23.7°C | 264 | 26.4 | 12.512 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
May in nearby cities
- Bekasi in MayIndonesia · 16 kmHigh 29.8°C · Low 23.7°C · 124 mm rain
- South Tangerang in MayIndonesia · 16 kmHigh 30.0°C · Low 22.6°C · 118 mm rain
- Ciputat in MayIndonesia · 17 kmHigh 29.8°C · Low 23.3°C · 118 mm rain
- Depok in MayIndonesia · 21 kmHigh 29.9°C · Low 22.2°C · 164 mm rain
- Cileungsir in MayIndonesia · 24 kmHigh 30.2°C · Low 22.4°C · 164 mm rain
- Tangerang in MayIndonesia · 24 kmHigh 29.9°C · Low 23.1°C · 118 mm rain
- Parung in MayIndonesia · 26 kmHigh 29.8°C · Low 22.2°C · 164 mm rain
- Teluknaga in MayIndonesia · 26 kmHigh 30.2°C · Low 23.9°C · 114 mm rain
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 limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Jakarta) is explained once on the Jakarta year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Tangerang, South Tangerang and Ciputat lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.