Climate averages 1991–2020

Sungailiat weather
in January.

A hot, very wet month: the coolest and the 9th driest of the year.

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

Average high 28.1°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 24.5°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 264 mm 27 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a hot month in Sungailiat: daytime highs average 28.1°C and nights cool to about 24.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 264 mm of rain on roughly 27 days, which makes January a very wet month (the 9th 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 Pangkalpinang (31 km away). In January its highs average 28.4°C, about as warm as Sungailiat, with 289 mm of rain.

Among the 200 cities listed in Indonesia, Sungailiat ranks joint 138th of 200 for the warmest January highs and 44th of 200 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 200 cities is 28.2°C; Sungailiat is 0.2°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.4°C to 28.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 264 mm to 194 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

Sungailiat climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Sungailiat, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	28.1°C24.5°C	24.5°C	264	26.6	12.212 h
February	28.5°C24.7°C	24.7°C	194	21.6	12.212 h
March	29.1°C24.8°C	24.8°C	251	26.0	12.112 h
April	29.4°C24.9°C	24.9°C	301	28.6	12.112 h
May	29.4°C25.2°C	25.2°C	226	26.5	12.012 h
June	29.2°C25.1°C	25.1°C	168	21.3	12.012 h
July	28.8°C24.9°C	24.9°C	139	18.1	12.012 h
August	29.4°C25.0°C	25.0°C	105	13.4	12.112 h
September	29.8°C24.9°C	24.9°C	119	14.0	12.112 h
October	29.7°C24.8°C	24.8°C	239	21.1	12.112 h
November	28.9°C24.5°C	24.5°C	347	28.4	12.212 h
December	28.2°C24.4°C	24.4°C	378	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 Sungailiat

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