Climate averages 1991–2020
Padang weather
in February.
A hot, very wet month: the warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
February is a hot month in Padang: daytime highs average 29.3°C and nights cool to about 23.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 265 mm of rain on roughly 20 days, which makes February a very wet month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 09 min on an average February day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Solok (38 km away). In February its highs average 27.5°C, 1.8°C cooler than Padang, with 151 mm of rain.
Among the 200 cities listed in Indonesia, Padang ranks joint 36th of 200 for the warmest February highs and joint 75th of 200 for the driest February (rainfall, lowest first). The mean February high of those 200 cities is 28.4°C; Padang is 0.9°C warmer than that mean.
From February to March, average highs fall by 0.2°C to 29.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 265 mm to 284 mm.
The annual picture
February 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
Padang climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 28.8°C23.3°C | 23.3°C | 315 | 23.1 | 12.212 h |
| February, selected | 29.3°C23.5°C | 23.5°C | 265 | 20.1 | 12.112 h |
| March | 29.1°C23.7°C | 23.7°C | 284 | 24.9 | 12.112 h |
| April | 28.8°C23.8°C | 23.8°C | 350 | 25.2 | 12.112 h |
| May | 29.2°C24.0°C | 24.0°C | 291 | 21.5 | 12.112 h |
| June | 29.1°C23.8°C | 23.8°C | 210 | 18.5 | 12.112 h |
| July | 28.6°C23.3°C | 23.3°C | 245 | 20.3 | 12.112 h |
| August | 28.4°C23.2°C | 23.2°C | 319 | 23.6 | 12.112 h |
| September | 28.3°C23.2°C | 23.2°C | 354 | 24.4 | 12.112 h |
| October | 28.0°C23.2°C | 23.2°C | 397 | 26.5 | 12.112 h |
| November | 27.9°C23.2°C | 23.2°C | 481 | 27.0 | 12.212 h |
| December | 28.2°C23.3°C | 23.3°C | 387 | 25.7 | 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
February in nearby cities
- Solok in FebruaryIndonesia · 38 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 20.8°C · 151 mm rain
- Pariaman in FebruaryIndonesia · 45 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 23.1°C · 307 mm rain
- Bukittinggi in FebruaryIndonesia · 71 kmHigh 25.8°C · Low 18.7°C · 281 mm rain
- Payakumbuh in FebruaryIndonesia · 87 kmHigh 27.3°C · Low 20.4°C · 199 mm rain
- Sungai Penuh in FebruaryIndonesia · 169 kmHigh 27.1°C · Low 20.1°C · 300 mm rain
- Pekanbaru in FebruaryIndonesia · 203 kmHigh 29.6°C · Low 22.9°C · 159 mm rain
- Padangsidempuan in FebruaryIndonesia · 286 kmHigh 28.8°C · Low 21.2°C · 215 mm rain
- Dumai in FebruaryIndonesia · 315 kmHigh 29.7°C · Low 23.6°C · 125 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 Padang) is explained once on the Padang year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.