Climate averages 1991–2020
Manokwari weather
in March.
A warm, very wet month: one of the coolest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a warm month in Manokwari: daytime highs average 27.2°C and nights cool to about 23.2°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the coolest months of the year.
Expect about 312 mm of rain on roughly 28 days, which makes March a very wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 07 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Sorong (312 km away). In March its highs average 29.0°C, 1.8°C warmer than Manokwari, with 342 mm of rain.
Among the 200 cities listed in Indonesia, Manokwari ranks joint 181st of 200 for the warmest March highs and joint 118th of 200 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 200 cities is 28.8°C; Manokwari is 1.6°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 0.1°C to 27.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 312 mm to 367 mm.
The annual picture
March 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
Manokwari climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 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, selected | 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
March in nearby cities
- Sorong in MarchIndonesia · 312 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 24.3°C · 342 mm rain
- Nabire in MarchIndonesia · 320 kmHigh 28.4°C · Low 22.1°C · 365 mm rain
- Tual in MarchIndonesia · 550 kmHigh 27.7°C · Low 25.6°C · 239 mm rain
- Ambon in MarchIndonesia · 725 kmHigh 28.4°C · Low 26.1°C · 158 mm rain
- Jayapura in MarchIndonesia · 763 kmHigh 29.4°C · Low 24.6°C · 267 mm rain
- Ternate in MarchIndonesia · 765 kmHigh 28.0°C · Low 25.5°C · 234 mm rain
- Manado in MarchIndonesia · 1057 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 24.5°C · 214 mm rain
- Kendari in MarchIndonesia · 1329 kmHigh 29.8°C · Low 24.5°C · 334 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 Manokwari) is explained once on the Manokwari year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.