Climate averages 1991–2020

Watampone weather
in January.

A hot, wet month: the joint 4th warmest and the 6th driest of the year.

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

Average high 29.4°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 24.8°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 173 mm 23 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a hot month in Watampone: daytime highs average 29.4°C and nights cool to about 24.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 4th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 173 mm of rain on roughly 23 days, which makes January a wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 21 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Parepare (97 km away). In January its highs average 28.8°C, 0.6°C cooler than Watampone, with 281 mm of rain.

Among the 200 cities listed in Indonesia, Watampone ranks joint 18th of 200 for the warmest January highs and 8th of 200 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 200 cities is 28.2°C; Watampone is 1.2°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.1°C to 29.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 173 mm to 167 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

Watampone climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Watampone, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	29.4°C24.8°C	24.8°C	173	22.9	12.412 h
February	29.5°C24.7°C	24.7°C	167	21.7	12.312 h
March	29.3°C24.6°C	24.6°C	215	26.4	12.112 h
April	28.7°C24.4°C	24.4°C	266	27.4	12.012 h
May	28.1°C24.5°C	24.5°C	283	27.7	11.912 h
June	27.3°C24.3°C	24.3°C	265	25.8	11.912 h
July	26.9°C24.1°C	24.1°C	181	22.1	11.912 h
August	27.3°C24.1°C	24.1°C	73	13.7	12.012 h
September	28.4°C24.4°C	24.4°C	54	10.3	12.112 h
October	29.4°C24.6°C	24.6°C	91	15.1	12.212 h
November	29.8°C24.8°C	24.8°C	135	21.3	12.312 h
December	29.5°C24.8°C	24.8°C	193	24.8	12.412 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 Watampone

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