Climate averages 1991–2020
Tarakan weather
in October.
A hot, very wet month: the joint 5th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
October is a hot month in Tarakan: daytime highs average 28.3°C and nights cool to about 24.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 260 mm of rain on roughly 29 days, which makes October a very wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 03 min on an average October day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Tawau (109 km away). In October its highs average 29.0°C, 0.7°C warmer than Tarakan, with 214 mm of rain.
Among the 200 cities listed in Indonesia, Tarakan ranks joint 164th of 200 for the warmest October highs and 161st of 200 for the driest October (rainfall, lowest first). The mean October high of those 200 cities is 30.1°C; Tarakan is 1.8°C cooler than that mean.
From October to November, average highs fall by 0.2°C to 28.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 260 mm to 278 mm.
The annual picture
October 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 | 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, selected | 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
October in nearby cities
- Tawau in OctoberMalaysia · 109 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 24.1°C · 214 mm rain
- Lahad Datu in OctoberMalaysia · 207 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 23.9°C · 193 mm rain
- Keningau in OctoberMalaysia · 275 kmHigh 29.1°C · Low 21.5°C · 157 mm rain
- Sandakan in OctoberMalaysia · 287 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 24.2°C · 282 mm rain
- Putatan in OctoberMalaysia · 336 kmHigh 28.5°C · Low 23.7°C · 264 mm rain
- Labuan in OctoberMalaysia · 340 kmHigh 28.7°C · Low 24.8°C · 201 mm rain
- Kota Kinabalu in OctoberMalaysia · 340 kmHigh 28.3°C · Low 24.0°C · 264 mm rain
- Bandar Seri Begawan in OctoberBrunei · 342 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 24.1°C · 254 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.