Climate averages 1991–2020

Palopo weather
in January.

A hot, very wet month: the joint 5th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.

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

Average high 28.5°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 22.8°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 418 mm 29 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a hot month in Palopo: daytime highs average 28.5°C and nights cool to about 22.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 5th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 418 mm of rain on roughly 29 days, which makes January a very wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 16 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Parepare (130 km away). In January its highs average 28.8°C, about as warm as Palopo, with 281 mm of rain.

Among the 200 cities listed in Indonesia, Palopo ranks joint 103rd of 200 for the warmest January highs and 173rd of 200 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 200 cities is 28.2°C; Palopo is 0.2°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs stay level at 28.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 418 mm to 402 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

Palopo climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Palopo, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	28.5°C22.8°C	22.8°C	418	29.3	12.312 h
February	28.5°C22.7°C	22.7°C	402	27.4	12.212 h
March	28.3°C22.7°C	22.7°C	457	29.5	12.112 h
April	28.1°C22.7°C	22.7°C	497	28.5	12.012 h
May	27.9°C22.7°C	22.7°C	288	26.2	12.012 h
June	27.4°C22.3°C	22.3°C	230	22.7	12.012 h
July	27.1°C21.9°C	21.9°C	143	18.8	12.012 h
August	27.4°C21.7°C	21.7°C	77	14.1	12.012 h
September	28.6°C22.0°C	22.0°C	62	10.6	12.112 h
October	29.5°C22.6°C	22.6°C	125	15.5	12.212 h
November	29.3°C23.1°C	23.1°C	245	24.3	12.212 h
December	28.6°C23.0°C	23.0°C	439	29.8	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 Palopo

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