Climate averages 1991–2020

Pangkalanbuun weather
in January.

A hot, very wet month: the joint 10th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.

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

Average high 29.5°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 23.5°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 242 mm 27 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a hot month in Pangkalanbuun: daytime highs average 29.5°C and nights cool to about 23.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 10th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 242 mm of rain on roughly 27 days, which makes January a very wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 15 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Sampit (148 km away). In January its highs average 29.9°C, about as warm as Pangkalanbuun, with 262 mm of rain.

Among the 200 cities listed in Indonesia, Pangkalanbuun ranks joint 14th of 200 for the warmest January highs and joint 34th of 200 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 200 cities is 28.2°C; Pangkalanbuun is 1.3°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.4°C to 29.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 242 mm to 208 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

Pangkalanbuun climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Pangkalanbuun, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	29.5°C23.5°C	23.5°C	242	27.1	12.312 h
February	29.9°C23.6°C	23.6°C	208	22.8	12.212 h
March	29.9°C23.7°C	23.7°C	250	27.3	12.112 h
April	29.8°C23.8°C	23.8°C	269	28.4	12.112 h
May	29.9°C24.1°C	24.1°C	210	25.1	12.012 h
June	29.6°C23.9°C	23.9°C	170	19.5	12.012 h
July	29.5°C23.6°C	23.6°C	129	18.0	12.012 h
August	30.0°C23.7°C	23.7°C	99	13.2	12.012 h
September	30.5°C23.8°C	23.8°C	132	14.9	12.112 h
October	30.3°C23.5°C	23.5°C	238	22.1	12.212 h
November	29.7°C23.4°C	23.4°C	293	28.2	12.212 h
December	29.2°C23.5°C	23.5°C	294	29.2	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.

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January in nearby cities

Distance from Pangkalanbuun

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