Climate averages 1991–2020
Labuan Bajo weather
in January.
A warm, very wet month: the 11th warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a warm month in Labuan Bajo: daytime highs average 27.6°C and nights cool to about 24.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 375 mm of rain on roughly 29 days, which makes January a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 33 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Bima (128 km away). In January its highs average 29.6°C, 2.1°C warmer than Labuan Bajo, with 399 mm of rain.
Among the 200 cities listed in Indonesia, Labuan Bajo ranks joint 157th of 200 for the warmest January highs and 151st of 200 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 200 cities is 28.2°C; Labuan Bajo is 0.7°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs fall by 0.1°C to 27.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 375 mm to 365 mm.
The annual picture
January 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
Labuan Bajo climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 27.6°C24.5°C | 24.5°C | 375 | 29.3 | 12.613 h |
| February | 27.5°C24.4°C | 24.4°C | 365 | 26.7 | 12.412 h |
| March | 28.0°C24.6°C | 24.6°C | 314 | 26.9 | 12.212 h |
| April | 28.5°C24.9°C | 24.9°C | 246 | 21.7 | 11.912 h |
| May | 28.5°C24.8°C | 24.8°C | 96 | 11.5 | 11.712 h |
| June | 28.2°C24.2°C | 24.2°C | 54 | 6.1 | 11.612 h |
| July | 28.0°C23.6°C | 23.6°C | 32 | 3.9 | 11.712 h |
| August | 28.2°C23.4°C | 23.4°C | 16 | 2.7 | 11.812 h |
| September | 28.8°C24.0°C | 24.0°C | 48 | 5.9 | 12.112 h |
| October | 29.3°C24.9°C | 24.9°C | 144 | 15.8 | 12.312 h |
| November | 29.2°C25.3°C | 25.3°C | 241 | 23.8 | 12.512 h |
| December | 28.2°C24.8°C | 24.8°C | 340 | 28.2 | 12.613 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
January in nearby cities
- Bima in JanuaryIndonesia · 128 kmHigh 29.6°C · Low 24.9°C · 399 mm rain
- Ende in JanuaryIndonesia · 199 kmHigh 30.1°C · Low 25.4°C · 313 mm rain
- Maumere in JanuaryIndonesia · 256 kmHigh 28.9°C · Low 25.6°C · 206 mm rain
- Galesong in JanuaryIndonesia · 358 kmHigh 27.1°C · Low 24.3°C · 915 mm rain
- Selong in JanuaryIndonesia · 369 kmHigh 28.6°C · Low 23.3°C · 374 mm rain
- Makassar in JanuaryIndonesia · 376 kmHigh 27.0°C · Low 24.2°C · 446 mm rain
- Mataram in JanuaryIndonesia · 415 kmHigh 28.3°C · Low 24.5°C · 248 mm rain
- Watampone in JanuaryIndonesia · 443 kmHigh 29.4°C · Low 24.8°C · 173 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 Labuan Bajo) is explained once on the Labuan Bajo year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.