Climate averages 1991–2020

Pangkalpinang weather
in January.

A hot, very wet month: one of the coolest and the 8th 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 24.2°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 289 mm 28 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a hot month in Pangkalpinang: daytime highs average 28.4°C and nights cool to about 24.2°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the coolest months of the year.

Expect about 289 mm of rain on roughly 28 days, which makes January a very wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 14 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Sungailiat (31 km away). In January its highs average 28.1°C, about as warm as Pangkalpinang, with 264 mm of rain.

Among the 200 cities listed in Indonesia, Pangkalpinang ranks joint 115th of 200 for the warmest January highs and 78th of 200 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 200 cities is 28.2°C; Pangkalpinang is 0.1°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.4°C to 28.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 289 mm to 243 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

Pangkalpinang climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Pangkalpinang, 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°C24.2°C	24.2°C	289	27.9	12.212 h
February	28.8°C24.3°C	24.3°C	243	24.2	12.212 h
March	29.3°C24.4°C	24.4°C	328	28.6	12.112 h
April	29.5°C24.5°C	24.5°C	335	29.1	12.112 h
May	29.5°C24.8°C	24.8°C	234	27.2	12.012 h
June	29.2°C24.7°C	24.7°C	170	22.9	12.012 h
July	28.9°C24.5°C	24.5°C	145	19.4	12.012 h
August	29.6°C24.6°C	24.6°C	106	14.4	12.012 h
September	30.0°C24.5°C	24.5°C	120	13.9	12.112 h
October	29.8°C24.3°C	24.3°C	227	20.9	12.212 h
November	29.0°C24.2°C	24.2°C	327	27.9	12.212 h
December	28.4°C24.1°C	24.1°C	360	30.1	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

January in nearby cities

Distance from Pangkalpinang

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