Climate averages 1991–2020

Manokwari weather
in January.

A warm, very wet month: the joint 7th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.

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

Average high 27.3°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 23.3°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 306 mm 27 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Manokwari: daytime highs average 27.3°C and nights cool to about 23.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 7th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 306 mm of rain on roughly 27 days, which makes January a very wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 10 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Sorong (312 km away). In January its highs average 28.9°C, 1.7°C warmer than Manokwari, with 305 mm of rain.

Among the 200 cities listed in Indonesia, Manokwari ranks joint 163rd of 200 for the warmest January highs and 96th of 200 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 200 cities is 28.2°C; Manokwari is 1.0°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs fall by 0.1°C to 27.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 306 mm to 266 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

Manokwari climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Manokwari, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	27.3°C23.3°C	23.3°C	306	26.9	12.212 h
February	27.2°C23.3°C	23.3°C	266	24.8	12.112 h
March	27.2°C23.2°C	23.2°C	312	28.0	12.112 h
April	27.4°C23.1°C	23.1°C	367	27.1	12.112 h
May	27.6°C23.5°C	23.5°C	220	26.2	12.112 h
June	27.3°C23.3°C	23.3°C	208	25.8	12.112 h
July	27.2°C23.2°C	23.2°C	184	24.1	12.112 h
August	27.3°C23.2°C	23.2°C	163	23.0	12.112 h
September	27.5°C23.3°C	23.3°C	147	23.0	12.112 h
October	27.6°C23.2°C	23.2°C	169	24.0	12.112 h
November	27.6°C23.1°C	23.1°C	253	25.6	12.212 h
December	27.5°C23.2°C	23.2°C	321	28.8	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

Distance from Manokwari

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 Manokwari) is explained once on the Manokwari year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.