Climate averages 1991–2020
Tarakan weather
in April.
A hot, very wet month: the joint 5th warmest and the 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a hot month in Tarakan: daytime highs average 28.3°C and nights cool to about 24.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 226 mm of rain on roughly 28 days, which makes April a very wet month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 11 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Tawau (109 km away). In April its highs average 29.6°C, 1.3°C warmer than Tarakan, with 163 mm of rain.
Among the 200 cities listed in Indonesia, Tarakan ranks joint 155th of 200 for the warmest April highs and joint 75th of 200 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 200 cities is 29.0°C; Tarakan is 0.7°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 0.2°C to 28.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 226 mm to 249 mm.
The annual picture
April 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
Tarakan climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 27.5°C24.6°C | 24.6°C | 263 | 27.0 | 12.012 h |
| February | 27.6°C24.8°C | 24.8°C | 211 | 25.1 | 12.012 h |
| March | 27.9°C24.8°C | 24.8°C | 235 | 28.5 | 12.112 h |
| April, selected | 28.3°C24.9°C | 24.9°C | 226 | 27.9 | 12.212 h |
| May | 28.6°C25.2°C | 25.2°C | 249 | 29.3 | 12.312 h |
| June | 28.4°C25.1°C | 25.1°C | 217 | 26.9 | 12.312 h |
| July | 28.2°C24.9°C | 24.9°C | 210 | 26.8 | 12.312 h |
| August | 28.4°C24.9°C | 24.9°C | 211 | 26.5 | 12.212 h |
| September | 28.4°C24.9°C | 24.9°C | 227 | 27.2 | 12.112 h |
| October | 28.3°C24.8°C | 24.8°C | 260 | 29.3 | 12.012 h |
| November | 28.1°C24.6°C | 24.6°C | 278 | 29.0 | 12.012 h |
| December | 27.9°C24.6°C | 24.6°C | 298 | 29.9 | 11.912 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
April in nearby cities
- Tawau in AprilMalaysia · 109 kmHigh 29.6°C · Low 24.4°C · 163 mm rain
- Lahad Datu in AprilMalaysia · 207 kmHigh 29.8°C · Low 24.2°C · 121 mm rain
- Keningau in AprilMalaysia · 275 kmHigh 30.4°C · Low 22.0°C · 155 mm rain
- Sandakan in AprilMalaysia · 287 kmHigh 30.0°C · Low 24.6°C · 169 mm rain
- Putatan in AprilMalaysia · 336 kmHigh 29.4°C · Low 24.2°C · 110 mm rain
- Labuan in AprilMalaysia · 340 kmHigh 29.9°C · Low 25.5°C · 91 mm rain
- Kota Kinabalu in AprilMalaysia · 340 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 24.5°C · 110 mm rain
- Bandar Seri Begawan in AprilBrunei · 342 kmHigh 30.5°C · Low 24.7°C · 131 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 Tarakan) is explained once on the Tarakan year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.