Climate averages 1991–2020
Kabanjahe weather
in May.
A warm, very wet month: one of the warmest and the 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Kabanjahe: daytime highs average 25.6°C and nights cool to about 17.9°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the warmest months of the year.
Expect about 196 mm of rain on roughly 26 days, which makes May a very wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 15 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Sunggal (55 km away). In May its highs average 30.3°C, 4.6°C warmer than Kabanjahe, with 266 mm of rain.
Among the 200 cities listed in Indonesia, Kabanjahe ranks 198th of 200 for the warmest May highs and 135th of 200 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 200 cities is 29.2°C; Kabanjahe is 3.5°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs stay level at 25.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 196 mm to 153 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
Kabanjahe climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 24.0°C17.3°C | 17.3°C | 189 | 25.2 | 12.012 h |
| February | 24.5°C17.3°C | 17.3°C | 156 | 20.6 | 12.012 h |
| March | 25.0°C17.5°C | 17.5°C | 188 | 24.6 | 12.112 h |
| April | 25.2°C17.7°C | 17.7°C | 230 | 27.1 | 12.212 h |
| May, selected | 25.6°C17.9°C | 17.9°C | 196 | 26.0 | 12.312 h |
| June | 25.6°C17.6°C | 17.6°C | 153 | 22.4 | 12.312 h |
| July | 25.3°C17.2°C | 17.2°C | 160 | 23.2 | 12.312 h |
| August | 25.1°C17.3°C | 17.3°C | 218 | 26.1 | 12.212 h |
| September | 25.0°C17.2°C | 17.2°C | 247 | 28.0 | 12.112 h |
| October | 24.5°C17.2°C | 17.2°C | 308 | 29.1 | 12.112 h |
| November | 24.1°C17.3°C | 17.3°C | 338 | 29.3 | 12.012 h |
| December | 23.7°C17.4°C | 17.4°C | 298 | 28.4 | 11.912 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
- Sunggal in MayIndonesia · 55 kmHigh 30.3°C · Low 22.8°C · 266 mm rain
- Binjai in MayIndonesia · 56 kmHigh 30.3°C · Low 22.5°C · 266 mm rain
- Medan in MayIndonesia · 57 kmHigh 30.2°C · Low 23.2°C · 279 mm rain
- Pematangsiantar in MayIndonesia · 66 kmHigh 28.2°C · Low 21.3°C · 265 mm rain
- Percut in MayIndonesia · 72 kmHigh 30.1°C · Low 24.0°C · 250 mm rain
- Perbaungan in MayIndonesia · 73 kmHigh 30.0°C · Low 24.6°C · 182 mm rain
- Belawan in MayIndonesia · 78 kmHigh 30.4°C · Low 23.9°C · 250 mm rain
- Tebingtinggi in MayIndonesia · 79 kmHigh 30.1°C · Low 24.1°C · 203 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 Kabanjahe) is explained once on the Kabanjahe year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.