Climate averages 1991–2020
Kendari weather
in March.
A hot, very wet month: the joint 5th warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a hot month in Kendari: daytime highs average 29.8°C and nights cool to about 24.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 334 mm of rain on roughly 30 days, which makes March a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 08 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Baubau (165 km away). In March its highs average 29.2°C, 0.6°C cooler than Kendari, with 257 mm of rain.
Among the 200 cities listed in Indonesia, Kendari ranks joint 30th of 200 for the warmest March highs and 139th of 200 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 200 cities is 28.8°C; Kendari is 1.0°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs fall by 0.2°C to 29.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 334 mm to 327 mm.
The annual picture
March 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
Kendari climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 29.9°C24.6°C | 24.6°C | 310 | 29.6 | 12.312 h |
| February | 29.8°C24.5°C | 24.5°C | 314 | 27.4 | 12.212 h |
| March, selected | 29.8°C24.5°C | 24.5°C | 334 | 30.1 | 12.112 h |
| April | 29.5°C24.4°C | 24.4°C | 327 | 28.6 | 12.012 h |
| May | 29.0°C24.3°C | 24.3°C | 315 | 27.5 | 11.912 h |
| June | 28.2°C23.7°C | 23.7°C | 270 | 24.9 | 11.912 h |
| July | 27.8°C23.3°C | 23.3°C | 189 | 21.3 | 11.912 h |
| August | 28.3°C23.0°C | 23.0°C | 98 | 13.7 | 12.012 h |
| September | 29.6°C23.4°C | 23.4°C | 82 | 10.3 | 12.112 h |
| October | 30.7°C24.4°C | 24.4°C | 121 | 14.3 | 12.212 h |
| November | 30.8°C24.9°C | 24.9°C | 189 | 22.2 | 12.312 h |
| December | 30.2°C24.7°C | 24.7°C | 311 | 29.5 | 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
March in nearby cities
- Baubau in MarchIndonesia · 165 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 24.8°C · 257 mm rain
- Watampone in MarchIndonesia · 250 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 24.6°C · 215 mm rain
- Palopo in MarchIndonesia · 280 kmHigh 28.3°C · Low 22.7°C · 457 mm rain
- Parepare in MarchIndonesia · 321 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 24.8°C · 258 mm rain
- Makassar in MarchIndonesia · 366 kmHigh 27.7°C · Low 24.3°C · 284 mm rain
- Galesong in MarchIndonesia · 379 kmHigh 27.8°C · Low 24.4°C · 497 mm rain
- Majene in MarchIndonesia · 396 kmHigh 28.4°C · Low 25.3°C · 130 mm rain
- Gorontalo in MarchIndonesia · 506 kmHigh 30.0°C · Low 23.7°C · 182 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 Kendari) is explained once on the Kendari year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.