Climate averages 1991–2020

Jayapura weather
in October.

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

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

Average high 29.9°C Daytime mean, October

Average low 24.4°C Night-time mean, October

Rainfall 186 mm 26 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

October is a hot month in Jayapura: daytime highs average 29.9°C and nights cool to about 24.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.

Expect about 186 mm of rain on roughly 26 days, which makes October a very wet month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 10 min on an average October day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Nabire (587 km away). In October its highs average 28.4°C, 1.5°C cooler than Jayapura, with 250 mm of rain.

Among the 200 cities listed in Indonesia, Jayapura ranks joint 109th of 200 for the warmest October highs and joint 113th of 200 for the driest October (rainfall, lowest first). The mean October high of those 200 cities is 30.1°C; Jayapura is 0.2°C cooler than that mean.

From October to November, average highs stay level at 29.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 186 mm to 233 mm.

The annual picture

October 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	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, selected	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

October 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.