Weather in Makassar, month by month

Warmest month
October, 28.6
Coldest month
January, 26.7
Wettest month
December, 370 mm
Year
2001-2020
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Across the 2001-2020 normals, the warmest month in Makassar is October at 28.6 degrees and the coldest is January at 26.7, a swing of 1.9 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 370 mm, and lightest in August at roughly 12 mm. Over a full year the cell above Makassar collects around 1,766 mm.

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

Humidity peaks in January at 86 percent, and the windiest month is January at 3.1 metres per second. Both are monthly means from the same twenty year series as the temperatures.

Rainfall is not spread evenly: 84 per cent of the year total falls in November, December, January, February, March and April.

2 months average 28 degrees or more: October and November.

Every figure here comes from one NASA POWER grid cell, at -5.15, 119.43, covering Makassar 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 Makassar, month by month

MonthMean temperatureRainfallHumidity
January26.7344 mm86%
February26.7249 mm85%
March27.1219 mm83%
April27.6156 mm81%
May27.783 mm80%
June27.265 mm79%
July26.927 mm76%
August27.212 mm72%
September27.926 mm69%
October28.665 mm69%
November28.4151 mm75%
December27.2370 mm83%

Questions

What is the warmest month in Makassar?

October, on the 2001-2020 monthly averages.

What is the coldest month in Makassar?

January, on the same twenty year series.

When does it rain most in Makassar?

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

Weather in Palembang, month by month

Same data, same method, different place.

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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))