Climate averages 1991–2020
Surakarta weather
in August.
A hot, fairly dry month: the 3rd warmest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a hot month in Surakarta: daytime highs average 31.5°C and nights cool to about 21.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 19 mm of rain on roughly 4 days, which makes August a fairly dry month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 52 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Kartasura (10 km away). In August its highs average 30.7°C, 0.8°C cooler than Surakarta, with 19 mm of rain.
Among the 200 cities listed in Indonesia, Surakarta ranks joint 20th of 200 for the warmest August highs and joint 42nd of 200 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 200 cities is 29.5°C; Surakarta is 2.0°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs rise by 0.8°C to 32.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 19 mm to 40 mm.
The annual picture
August in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Surakarta climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 28.9°C22.6°C | 22.6°C | 354 | 27.9 | 12.513 h |
| February | 29.2°C22.6°C | 22.6°C | 355 | 27.5 | 12.312 h |
| March | 29.5°C22.7°C | 22.7°C | 320 | 28.1 | 12.112 h |
| April | 29.8°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 223 | 25.4 | 11.912 h |
| May | 30.2°C22.5°C | 22.5°C | 107 | 16.6 | 11.812 h |
| June | 30.4°C22.1°C | 22.1°C | 59 | 10.3 | 11.712 h |
| July | 30.8°C21.4°C | 21.4°C | 38 | 6.7 | 11.712 h |
| August, selected | 31.5°C21.3°C | 21.3°C | 19 | 3.8 | 11.912 h |
| September | 32.3°C22.1°C | 22.1°C | 40 | 5.8 | 12.112 h |
| October | 32.1°C22.9°C | 22.9°C | 121 | 14.7 | 12.312 h |
| November | 30.5°C23.2°C | 23.2°C | 242 | 24.3 | 12.512 h |
| December | 29.1°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 313 | 26.6 | 12.613 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
August in nearby cities
- Kartasura in AugustIndonesia · 10 kmHigh 30.7°C · Low 20.6°C · 19 mm rain
- Sragen in AugustIndonesia · 25 kmHigh 32.2°C · Low 21.7°C · 19 mm rain
- Klaten in AugustIndonesia · 30 kmHigh 30.2°C · Low 20.0°C · 21 mm rain
- Salatiga in AugustIndonesia · 45 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 19.6°C · 32 mm rain
- Wonosari in AugustIndonesia · 52 kmHigh 28.8°C · Low 21.3°C · 12 mm rain
- Purwodadi in AugustIndonesia · 53 kmHigh 32.7°C · Low 22.0°C · 21 mm rain
- Yogyakarta in AugustIndonesia · 58 kmHigh 29.1°C · Low 20.5°C · 40 mm rain
- Muntilan in AugustIndonesia · 59 kmHigh 27.8°C · Low 19.2°C · 66 mm rain
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 limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Surakarta) is explained once on the Surakarta year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Kartasura lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.