Climate averages 1991–2020

Makassar weather
in January.

A warm, very wet month: the coolest and the wettest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 27.0°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 24.2°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 446 mm 30 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Makassar: daytime highs average 27.0°C and nights cool to about 24.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 446 mm of rain on roughly 30 days, which makes January a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 23 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Galesong (20 km away). In January its highs average 27.1°C, about as warm as Makassar, with 915 mm of rain.

Among the 200 cities listed in Indonesia, Makassar ranks joint 175th of 200 for the warmest January highs and joint 183rd of 200 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 200 cities is 28.2°C; Makassar is 1.2°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.2°C to 27.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 446 mm to 349 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Makassar climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Makassar, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	27.0°C24.2°C	24.2°C	446	29.7	12.412 h
February	27.2°C24.2°C	24.2°C	349	26.4	12.312 h
March	27.7°C24.3°C	24.3°C	284	27.8	12.112 h
April	28.4°C24.6°C	24.6°C	292	28.1	12.012 h
May	29.0°C24.6°C	24.6°C	231	23.9	11.912 h
June	28.8°C24.0°C	24.0°C	173	19.7	11.812 h
July	28.7°C23.2°C	23.2°C	117	13.8	11.912 h
August	29.6°C23.0°C	23.0°C	56	8.4	11.912 h
September	30.2°C23.4°C	23.4°C	64	9.2	12.112 h
October	29.9°C24.4°C	24.4°C	163	19.2	12.212 h
November	28.6°C24.8°C	24.8°C	255	28.1	12.312 h
December	27.3°C24.4°C	24.4°C	433	29.8	12.412 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

Distance from Makassar

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Makassar) is explained once on the Makassar year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.