Climate averages 1991–2020
Tarakan weather
in March.
A warm, very wet month: the joint 9th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a warm month in Tarakan: daytime highs average 27.9°C and nights cool to about 24.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 235 mm of rain on roughly 29 days, which makes March a very wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 06 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Tawau (109 km away). In March its highs average 29.6°C, 1.7°C warmer than Tarakan, with 144 mm of rain.
Among the 200 cities listed in Indonesia, Tarakan ranks joint 161st of 200 for the warmest March highs and 45th of 200 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 200 cities is 28.8°C; Tarakan is 0.9°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 0.4°C to 28.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 235 mm to 226 mm.
The annual picture
March 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, selected | 27.9°C24.8°C | 24.8°C | 235 | 28.5 | 12.112 h |
| April | 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
March in nearby cities
- Tawau in MarchMalaysia · 109 kmHigh 29.6°C · Low 24.3°C · 144 mm rain
- Lahad Datu in MarchMalaysia · 207 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 23.7°C · 123 mm rain
- Keningau in MarchMalaysia · 275 kmHigh 30.0°C · Low 21.6°C · 134 mm rain
- Sandakan in MarchMalaysia · 287 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 24.1°C · 197 mm rain
- Putatan in MarchMalaysia · 336 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 23.7°C · 93 mm rain
- Labuan in MarchMalaysia · 340 kmHigh 29.4°C · Low 25.1°C · 54 mm rain
- Kota Kinabalu in MarchMalaysia · 340 kmHigh 28.8°C · Low 23.9°C · 93 mm rain
- Bandar Seri Begawan in MarchBrunei · 342 kmHigh 29.9°C · Low 24.3°C · 91 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.