Weather in Balikpapan, month by month

Warmest month
May, 27.9
Coldest month
August, 27
Wettest month
December, 269 mm
Year
2001-2020
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Across the 2001-2020 normals, the warmest month in Balikpapan is May at 27.9 degrees and the coldest is August at 27, a swing of 0.9 degrees over the year. Those are monthly averages for the model cell the city sits in, not readings from a weather station in it.

Rain is heaviest in December, about 269 mm, and lightest in September at roughly 131 mm. Over a full year the cell above Balikpapan collects around 2,469 mm.

No month in Balikpapan averages between 15 and 24 degrees, so the year does not pass through what this page calls mild at all.

Humidity peaks in July at 83 percent, and the windiest month is August at 3.3 metres per second. Both are monthly means from the same twenty year series as the temperatures.

Rainfall is not spread evenly: 57 per cent of the year total falls in December, January, February, March, April and May.

Every figure here comes from one NASA POWER grid cell, at -1.27, 116.83, covering Balikpapan on the 2001-2020 climatology. One cell, one period and one provider for every month, which is what makes the twelve rows comparable with each other.

The source publishes a monthly mean and, separately, the highest and lowest values it recorded in twenty years. Those extremes are not a typical afternoon or a typical night, so nothing here is quoted as one. This page does not say what the daytime high usually is, because this source cannot say it.

Normals are not a forecast. They describe what twenty years averaged to, and any single year can sit well outside them. They also describe a model grid cell of roughly fifty kilometres rather than a weather station, so a coastal city and the sea beside it share one figure.

Weather in Balikpapan, month by month

MonthMean temperatureRainfallHumidity
January27.3238 mm82%
February27.3225 mm83%
March27.5239 mm82%
April27.7224 mm82%
May27.9221 mm82%
June27.4230 mm83%
July27190 mm83%
August27131 mm83%
September27.2131 mm82%
October27.5156 mm82%
November27.7216 mm81%
December27.5269 mm82%

Questions

What is the warmest month in Balikpapan?

May, on the 2001-2020 monthly averages.

What is the coldest month in Balikpapan?

August, on the same twenty year series.

When does it rain most in Balikpapan?

December carries the highest monthly total in the 2001-2020 normals.

Weather in Banda Aceh, month by month

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Sources

  • NASA POWER, https://power.larc.nasa.gov/api/temporal/climatology/point (CC BY 4.0; 'There are no restrictions on the use, access, and/or download of data from the NASA POWER Project' (AWS Open Data Registry entry))