Climate averages 1991–2020
Manokwari weather
in May.
A warm, very wet month: one of the warmest and the 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Manokwari: daytime highs average 27.6°C and nights cool to about 23.5°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the warmest months of the year.
Expect about 220 mm of rain on roughly 26 days, which makes May a very wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 05 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Sorong (312 km away). In May its highs average 29.5°C, 1.9°C warmer than Manokwari, with 314 mm of rain.
Among the 200 cities listed in Indonesia, Manokwari ranks joint 178th of 200 for the warmest May highs and 160th of 200 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 200 cities is 29.2°C; Manokwari is 1.5°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 0.3°C to 27.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 220 mm to 208 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
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 | 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, selected | 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
May in nearby cities
- Sorong in MayIndonesia · 312 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 24.4°C · 314 mm rain
- Nabire in MayIndonesia · 320 kmHigh 28.4°C · Low 22.2°C · 254 mm rain
- Tual in MayIndonesia · 550 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 25.7°C · 208 mm rain
- Ambon in MayIndonesia · 725 kmHigh 27.6°C · Low 25.7°C · 230 mm rain
- Jayapura in MayIndonesia · 763 kmHigh 29.6°C · Low 24.6°C · 215 mm rain
- Ternate in MayIndonesia · 765 kmHigh 28.2°C · Low 25.6°C · 301 mm rain
- Manado in MayIndonesia · 1057 kmHigh 30.3°C · Low 25.2°C · 265 mm rain
- Kendari in MayIndonesia · 1329 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 24.3°C · 315 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.