Climate averages 1991–2020

Jayapura weather
in May.

A hot, very wet month: the joint 3rd warmest and the 4th driest of the year.

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

Average high 29.6°C Daytime mean, May

Average low 24.6°C Night-time mean, May

Rainfall 215 mm 27 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

May is a hot month in Jayapura: daytime highs average 29.6°C and nights cool to about 24.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 3rd warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 215 mm of rain on roughly 27 days, which makes May a very wet month (the 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 00 min on an average May day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Nabire (587 km away). In May its highs average 28.4°C, 1.3°C cooler than Jayapura, with 254 mm of rain.

Among the 200 cities listed in Indonesia, Jayapura ranks joint 92nd of 200 for the warmest May highs and 155th of 200 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 200 cities is 29.2°C; Jayapura is 0.5°C warmer than that mean.

From May to June, average highs fall by 0.5°C to 29.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 215 mm to 221 mm.

The annual picture

May 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

Jayapura climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Jayapura, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	29.4°C24.7°C	24.7°C	244	27.2	12.212 h
February	29.3°C24.6°C	24.6°C	240	24.2	12.212 h
March	29.4°C24.6°C	24.6°C	267	27.3	12.112 h
April	29.5°C24.6°C	24.6°C	250	27.2	12.112 h
May, selected	29.6°C24.6°C	24.6°C	215	27.2	12.012 h
June	29.2°C24.3°C	24.3°C	221	27.0	12.012 h
July	28.9°C24.1°C	24.1°C	236	26.0	12.012 h
August	29.2°C24.0°C	24.0°C	210	25.3	12.012 h
September	29.5°C24.2°C	24.2°C	191	24.1	12.112 h
October	29.9°C24.4°C	24.4°C	186	25.7	12.212 h
November	29.8°C24.6°C	24.6°C	233	26.9	12.212 h
December	29.6°C24.7°C	24.7°C	265	28.1	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

May in nearby cities

Distance from Jayapura

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