Climate averages 1991–2020

Payakumbuh weather
in January.

A warm, 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 26.7°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 20.3°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 250 mm 27 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Payakumbuh: daytime highs average 26.7°C and nights cool to about 20.3°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the coolest months of the year.

Expect about 250 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 08 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Bukittinggi (31 km away). In January its highs average 25.3°C, 1.4°C cooler than Payakumbuh, with 315 mm of rain.

Among the 200 cities listed in Indonesia, Payakumbuh ranks joint 179th of 200 for the warmest January highs and 39th of 200 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 200 cities is 28.2°C; Payakumbuh is 1.6°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.6°C to 27.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 250 mm to 199 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

Payakumbuh climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Payakumbuh, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	26.7°C20.3°C	20.3°C	250	27.1	12.112 h
February	27.3°C20.4°C	20.4°C	199	24.0	12.112 h
March	27.8°C20.6°C	20.6°C	248	27.6	12.112 h
April	28.0°C20.8°C	20.8°C	268	28.0	12.112 h
May	28.4°C21.0°C	21.0°C	199	25.8	12.112 h
June	28.4°C20.5°C	20.5°C	135	21.4	12.112 h
July	28.1°C20.2°C	20.2°C	145	21.6	12.112 h
August	28.0°C20.3°C	20.3°C	178	23.3	12.112 h
September	27.9°C20.4°C	20.4°C	213	25.1	12.112 h
October	27.7°C20.4°C	20.4°C	252	27.6	12.112 h
November	27.1°C20.5°C	20.5°C	326	27.8	12.112 h
December	26.7°C20.4°C	20.4°C	292	27.6	12.112 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 Payakumbuh

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