Climate averages 1991–2020
Kendari weather
in May.
A hot, very wet month: the 9th warmest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a hot month in Kendari: daytime highs average 29.0°C and nights cool to about 24.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 315 mm of rain on roughly 28 days, which makes May a very wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 56 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Baubau (165 km away). In May its highs average 28.8°C, about as warm as Kendari, with 143 mm of rain.
Among the 200 cities listed in Indonesia, Kendari ranks joint 130th of 200 for the warmest May highs and joint 197th of 200 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 200 cities is 29.2°C; Kendari is 0.2°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 0.8°C to 28.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 315 mm to 270 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
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 | 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, selected | 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
May in nearby cities
- Baubau in MayIndonesia · 165 kmHigh 28.8°C · Low 25.0°C · 143 mm rain
- Watampone in MayIndonesia · 250 kmHigh 28.1°C · Low 24.5°C · 283 mm rain
- Palopo in MayIndonesia · 280 kmHigh 27.9°C · Low 22.7°C · 288 mm rain
- Parepare in MayIndonesia · 321 kmHigh 29.8°C · Low 25.0°C · 157 mm rain
- Makassar in MayIndonesia · 366 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 24.6°C · 231 mm rain
- Galesong in MayIndonesia · 379 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 24.8°C · 52 mm rain
- Majene in MayIndonesia · 396 kmHigh 28.3°C · Low 25.5°C · 135 mm rain
- Gorontalo in MayIndonesia · 506 kmHigh 29.7°C · Low 24.2°C · 234 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.