Climate averages 1991–2020

Tanjung Pandan weather
in January.

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

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

Average high 28.2°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 24.6°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 271 mm 29 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a hot month in Tanjung Pandan: daytime highs average 28.2°C and nights cool to about 24.6°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the coolest months of the year.

Expect about 271 mm of rain on roughly 29 days, which makes January a very wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 15 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Pangkalpinang (182 km away). In January its highs average 28.4°C, about as warm as Tanjung Pandan, with 289 mm of rain.

Among the 200 cities listed in Indonesia, Tanjung Pandan ranks joint 135th of 200 for the warmest January highs and 49th of 200 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 200 cities is 28.2°C; Tanjung Pandan is 0.1°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.3°C to 28.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 271 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

Tanjung Pandan climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Tanjung Pandan, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	28.2°C24.6°C	24.6°C	271	28.6	12.312 h
February	28.5°C24.8°C	24.8°C	194	23.3	12.212 h
March	29.1°C24.8°C	24.8°C	269	27.5	12.112 h
April	29.4°C24.9°C	24.9°C	333	29.0	12.112 h
May	29.7°C25.1°C	25.1°C	236	27.4	12.012 h
June	29.4°C24.8°C	24.8°C	167	21.8	12.012 h
July	29.3°C24.5°C	24.5°C	122	17.0	12.012 h
August	30.2°C24.5°C	24.5°C	90	12.6	12.012 h
September	30.7°C24.4°C	24.4°C	104	13.0	12.112 h
October	30.2°C24.4°C	24.4°C	243	22.0	12.212 h
November	29.0°C24.6°C	24.6°C	354	28.3	12.212 h
December	28.2°C24.6°C	24.6°C	356	30.2	12.312 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 Tanjung Pandan

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