Climate averages 1991–2020

Ternate weather
in January.

A warm, very wet month: the 9th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.

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

Average high 27.7°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 25.5°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 240 mm 26 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Ternate: daytime highs average 27.7°C and nights cool to about 25.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 240 mm of rain on roughly 26 days, which makes January a very wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 05 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Bitung (261 km away). In January its highs average 28.7°C, 1.1°C warmer than Ternate, with 178 mm of rain.

Among the 200 cities listed in Indonesia, Ternate ranks joint 154th of 200 for the warmest January highs and joint 31st of 200 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 200 cities is 28.2°C; Ternate is 0.6°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.1°C to 27.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 240 mm to 190 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

Ternate climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Ternate, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	27.7°C25.5°C	25.5°C	240	26.3	12.112 h
February	27.8°C25.6°C	25.6°C	190	22.1	12.112 h
March	28.0°C25.5°C	25.5°C	234	24.6	12.112 h
April	28.1°C25.4°C	25.4°C	291	26.3	12.112 h
May	28.2°C25.6°C	25.6°C	301	27.2	12.212 h
June	27.8°C25.3°C	25.3°C	294	24.6	12.212 h
July	27.4°C25.3°C	25.3°C	219	22.2	12.212 h
August	27.3°C25.4°C	25.4°C	151	17.9	12.112 h
September	27.5°C25.4°C	25.4°C	180	19.7	12.112 h
October	28.0°C25.5°C	25.5°C	187	21.3	12.112 h
November	28.1°C25.5°C	25.5°C	228	26.7	12.112 h
December	27.9°C25.6°C	25.6°C	265	27.8	12.112 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

January in nearby cities

Distance from Ternate

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