Climate averages 1991–2020

Sungai Penuh weather
in January.

A warm, very wet month: the 10th warmest and the 10th driest of the year.

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

Average high 26.6°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 20.1°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 340 mm 28 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Sungai Penuh: daytime highs average 26.6°C and nights cool to about 20.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 340 mm of rain on roughly 28 days, which makes January a very wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 13 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Solok (162 km away). In January its highs average 26.9°C, about as warm as Sungai Penuh, with 194 mm of rain.

Among the 200 cities listed in Indonesia, Sungai Penuh ranks joint 181st of 200 for the warmest January highs and joint 130th of 200 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 200 cities is 28.2°C; Sungai Penuh is 1.6°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.4°C to 27.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 340 mm to 300 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

Sungai Penuh climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Sungai Penuh, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	26.6°C20.1°C	20.1°C	340	27.9	12.212 h
February	27.1°C20.1°C	20.1°C	300	24.5	12.212 h
March	27.1°C20.2°C	20.2°C	325	27.0	12.112 h
April	27.2°C20.4°C	20.4°C	329	27.9	12.112 h
May	27.5°C20.5°C	20.5°C	239	25.8	12.012 h
June	27.2°C20.1°C	20.1°C	177	22.1	12.012 h
July	26.7°C19.7°C	19.7°C	192	22.5	12.012 h
August	26.8°C19.7°C	19.7°C	218	24.2	12.012 h
September	26.9°C19.8°C	19.8°C	257	24.8	12.112 h
October	26.7°C20.0°C	20.0°C	313	26.7	12.212 h
November	26.4°C20.0°C	20.0°C	379	27.8	12.212 h
December	26.3°C20.0°C	20.0°C	372	28.0	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.

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January in nearby cities

Distance from Sungai Penuh

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