Climate averages 1991–2020

Nabire weather
in January.

A hot, very wet month: the joint 3rd warmest and the 10th driest of the year.

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

Average high 28.4°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 22.1°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 324 mm 28 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a hot month in Nabire: daytime highs average 28.4°C and nights cool to about 22.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 3rd warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 324 mm of rain on roughly 28 days, which makes January a very wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 17 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Manokwari (320 km away). In January its highs average 27.3°C, 1.1°C cooler than Nabire, with 306 mm of rain.

Among the 200 cities listed in Indonesia, Nabire ranks joint 115th of 200 for the warmest January highs and 110th of 200 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 200 cities is 28.2°C; Nabire is 0.2°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs fall by 0.1°C to 28.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 324 mm to 306 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

Nabire climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Nabire, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	28.4°C22.1°C	22.1°C	324	27.7	12.312 h
February	28.3°C22.1°C	22.1°C	306	25.0	12.212 h
March	28.4°C22.1°C	22.1°C	365	27.7	12.112 h
April	28.4°C22.1°C	22.1°C	373	26.7	12.012 h
May	28.4°C22.2°C	22.2°C	254	25.6	12.012 h
June	27.9°C21.9°C	21.9°C	231	24.5	11.912 h
July	27.6°C21.8°C	21.8°C	185	23.1	11.912 h
August	27.9°C21.8°C	21.8°C	204	22.6	12.012 h
September	28.2°C21.7°C	21.7°C	255	24.7	12.112 h
October	28.4°C21.8°C	21.8°C	250	25.6	12.212 h
November	28.5°C22.0°C	22.0°C	280	25.2	12.312 h
December	28.6°C22.2°C	22.2°C	288	27.7	12.312 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 Nabire

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