Climate averages 1991–2020
Ternate weather
in March.
A hot, very wet month: the joint 4th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a hot month in Ternate: daytime highs average 28.0°C and nights cool to about 25.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 234 mm of rain on roughly 25 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 Bitung (261 km away). In March its highs average 29.1°C, 1.1°C warmer than Ternate, with 155 mm of rain.
Among the 200 cities listed in Indonesia, Ternate ranks joint 159th of 200 for the warmest March highs and 44th of 200 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 200 cities is 28.8°C; Ternate is 0.8°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 0.1°C to 28.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 234 mm to 291 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
Ternate climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 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, selected | 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
March in nearby cities
- Bitung in MarchIndonesia · 261 kmHigh 29.1°C · Low 25.1°C · 155 mm rain
- Manado in MarchIndonesia · 292 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 24.5°C · 214 mm rain
- Kotamobagu in MarchIndonesia · 342 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 22.9°C · 329 mm rain
- Sorong in MarchIndonesia · 469 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 24.3°C · 342 mm rain
- Gorontalo in MarchIndonesia · 481 kmHigh 30.0°C · Low 23.7°C · 182 mm rain
- Ambon in MarchIndonesia · 507 kmHigh 28.4°C · Low 26.1°C · 158 mm rain
- Malita in MarchPhilippines · 656 kmHigh 28.6°C · Low 23.7°C · 106 mm rain
- Tupi in MarchPhilippines · 673 kmHigh 29.8°C · Low 22.1°C · 136 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 Ternate) is explained once on the Ternate year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.