Climate averages 1991–2020
Labuan Bajo weather
in May.
A hot, wet month: the joint 4th warmest and the 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a hot month in Labuan Bajo: daytime highs average 28.5°C and nights cool to about 24.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 96 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes May a wet month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 44 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Bima (128 km away). In May its highs average 30.2°C, 1.6°C warmer than Labuan Bajo, with 58 mm of rain.
Among the 200 cities listed in Indonesia, Labuan Bajo ranks joint 151st of 200 for the warmest May highs and joint 36th of 200 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 200 cities is 29.2°C; Labuan Bajo is 0.6°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 0.4°C to 28.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 96 mm to 54 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
Labuan Bajo climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 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, selected | 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
May in nearby cities
- Bima in MayIndonesia · 128 kmHigh 30.2°C · Low 24.5°C · 58 mm rain
- Ende in MayIndonesia · 199 kmHigh 30.5°C · Low 24.8°C · 83 mm rain
- Maumere in MayIndonesia · 256 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 25.5°C · 46 mm rain
- Galesong in MayIndonesia · 358 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 24.8°C · 52 mm rain
- Selong in MayIndonesia · 369 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 22.8°C · 52 mm rain
- Makassar in MayIndonesia · 376 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 24.6°C · 231 mm rain
- Mataram in MayIndonesia · 415 kmHigh 29.9°C · Low 24.2°C · 48 mm rain
- Watampone in MayIndonesia · 443 kmHigh 28.1°C · Low 24.5°C · 283 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.