Climate averages 1991–2020
Loa Janan weather
in January.
A hot, very wet month: the joint 9th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a hot month in Loa Janan: daytime highs average 29.8°C and nights cool to about 23.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 277 mm of rain on roughly 26 days, which makes January a very wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 09 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Samarinda (12 km away). In January its highs average 29.6°C, about as warm as Loa Janan, with 279 mm of rain.
Among the 200 cities listed in Indonesia, Loa Janan ranks joint 6th of 200 for the warmest January highs and joint 56th of 200 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 200 cities is 28.2°C; Loa Janan is 1.5°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.2°C to 30.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 277 mm to 244 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
Loa Janan climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 29.8°C23.3°C | 23.3°C | 277 | 26.4 | 12.112 h |
| February | 30.0°C23.4°C | 23.4°C | 244 | 23.7 | 12.112 h |
| March | 30.2°C23.5°C | 23.5°C | 299 | 26.9 | 12.112 h |
| April | 30.3°C23.7°C | 23.7°C | 307 | 27.5 | 12.112 h |
| May | 30.1°C23.9°C | 23.9°C | 256 | 28.7 | 12.112 h |
| June | 29.7°C23.6°C | 23.6°C | 214 | 25.7 | 12.112 h |
| July | 29.4°C23.4°C | 23.4°C | 178 | 23.7 | 12.112 h |
| August | 30.0°C23.5°C | 23.5°C | 159 | 21.2 | 12.112 h |
| September | 30.6°C23.6°C | 23.6°C | 167 | 20.7 | 12.112 h |
| October | 30.6°C23.6°C | 23.6°C | 233 | 26.0 | 12.112 h |
| November | 30.1°C23.5°C | 23.5°C | 294 | 28.5 | 12.112 h |
| December | 29.8°C23.5°C | 23.5°C | 298 | 28.9 | 12.212 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
- Samarinda in JanuaryIndonesia · 12 kmHigh 29.6°C · Low 23.2°C · 279 mm rain
- Nusantara in JanuaryIndonesia · 61 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 23.3°C · 323 mm rain
- Balikpapan in JanuaryIndonesia · 82 kmHigh 28.3°C · Low 23.9°C · 258 mm rain
- Bontang in JanuaryIndonesia · 91 kmHigh 28.9°C · Low 24.1°C · 205 mm rain
- Majene in JanuaryIndonesia · 389 kmHigh 28.1°C · Low 25.3°C · 165 mm rain
- Palangkaraya in JanuaryIndonesia · 397 kmHigh 30.0°C · Low 23.2°C · 282 mm rain
- Martapura in JanuaryIndonesia · 400 kmHigh 29.4°C · Low 23.4°C · 338 mm rain
- Banjarbaru in JanuaryIndonesia · 405 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 23.3°C · 338 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 Loa Janan) is explained once on the Loa Janan year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.