Climate averages 1991–2020
Tarakan weather
in May.
A hot, very wet month: the warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a hot month in Tarakan: daytime highs average 28.6°C and nights cool to about 25.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 249 mm of rain on roughly 29 days, which makes May a very wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 16 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Tawau (109 km away). In May its highs average 29.3°C, 0.8°C warmer than Tarakan, with 216 mm of rain.
Among the 200 cities listed in Indonesia, Tarakan ranks joint 149th of 200 for the warmest May highs and 177th of 200 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 200 cities is 29.2°C; Tarakan is 0.6°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 0.2°C to 28.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 249 mm to 217 mm.
The annual picture
May 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 | 28.3°C24.9°C | 24.9°C | 226 | 27.9 | 12.212 h |
| May, selected | 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
May in nearby cities
- Tawau in MayMalaysia · 109 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 24.5°C · 216 mm rain
- Lahad Datu in MayMalaysia · 207 kmHigh 29.6°C · Low 24.4°C · 177 mm rain
- Keningau in MayMalaysia · 275 kmHigh 30.1°C · Low 22.1°C · 163 mm rain
- Sandakan in MayMalaysia · 287 kmHigh 30.3°C · Low 24.9°C · 237 mm rain
- Putatan in MayMalaysia · 336 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 24.5°C · 163 mm rain
- Labuan in MayMalaysia · 340 kmHigh 29.9°C · Low 25.8°C · 114 mm rain
- Kota Kinabalu in MayMalaysia · 340 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 24.8°C · 163 mm rain
- Bandar Seri Begawan in MayBrunei · 342 kmHigh 30.5°C · Low 24.9°C · 148 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.