Climate and average weather in Mentiri

In Mentiri, the weather is oppressive, hot, wet, and mostly cloudy and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near hot levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around October.

Best: early January to early April

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Mentiri typically varies from 25°C to 32°C, and is rarely below 24°C or above 34°C. April is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Mentiri for warm-weather activities is from early January to early April.

Hottest
Apr
32°
Coldest
Jan
25°
Wettest
Oct
254 mm
Driest
Mar
91 mm
Rain / yr
2086 mm
252 wet days
Daylight
11.7–12.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
8 m
5.0°N
Clearest
Apr
74% cloud

Mentiri is mukim of Brunei-Muara District, Brunei.

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

Mentiri weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around early January to early April.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Mentiri, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

Temperatures in Mentiri stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is April, with an average high of 32°C and low of 25°C; the coolest is January, with an average low of 25°C and high of 30°C.

Days typically run about 6°C warmer than nights year-round.

20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3025
Feb3025
Mar3125
Apr3225
May3226
Jun3125
Jul3125
Aug3125
Sep3125
Oct3025
Nov3025
Dec3025

How hot and cold Mentiri really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the hottest afternoons, once humidity is folded in, Mentiri feels like about 40°C (around May 2). Nearly every day a year carries some heat stress, and 40 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in May.

20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan35302525
Feb35302525
Mar37312525
Apr39322525
May39322526
Jun38312525
Jul37312525
Aug38312525
Sep37312525
Oct37302525
Nov37302525
Dec36302525

Average hourly temperature in Mentiri

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on April afternoons, near 32°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 25°C.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Mentiri weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan30° / 25°16219.211.73.8
Feb30° / 25°10513.311.84.2
Mar31° / 25°9115.8123.8
Apr32° / 25°13119.512.13.1
May32° / 26°14821.512.22.9
Jun31° / 25°18519.812.33.1
Jul31° / 25°17921.112.33.1
Aug31° / 25°18221.312.23.1
Sep31° / 25°19623.2122.9
Oct30° / 25°25426.911.92.8
Nov30° / 25°2322611.82.8
Dec30° / 25°22224.711.73.1

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Mentiri gets about 2086 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is very wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 4.7 months, from around Aug 16 to Jan 6, peaking in October at about 88% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Mar 1.

October is the wettest month by volume, with 254 mm over about 27 wet days; March is the driest, with 91 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetOct 28 · 88%Mar 1 · 45%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan6219
Feb4813
Mar5116
Apr6620
May6922
Jun6620
Jul6821
Aug6921
Sep7723
Oct8727
Nov8726
Dec7925

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Mentiri collects about 2086 mm of rain across 252 wet days — roughly 174 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. October is the wettest month with 254 mm, while March is the driest at just 91 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 34% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec16210591131148185179182196254232222
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan16219
Feb10513
Mar9116
Apr13120
May14822
Jun18520
Jul17921
Aug18221
Sep19623
Oct25427
Nov23226
Dec22225

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Mentiri, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows moderate seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around February 7 and lasts for 3.8 months, ending around June 3. The clearest month is March, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 26% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around August 28 and lasts for 5.4 months, ending around February 6. The cloudiest month is October, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 91% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecApr 5 · 31%Oct 20 · 8%mostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan1387
Feb1981
Mar2674
Apr2674
May2080
Jun1882
Jul2080
Aug1882
Sep1486
Oct991
Nov1090
Dec1090

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. Close to the equator, Mentiri barely changes through the year: days stay near 12 h 18 min of light in every season.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.76:376:21
Feb11.86:396:30
Mar12.06:316:29
Apr12.16:176:23
May12.26:096:23
Jun12.36:126:29
Jul12.36:186:33
Aug12.26:196:29
Sep12.06:136:15
Oct11.96:086:02
Nov11.86:125:58
Dec11.76:256:07

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Mentiri averages about 2 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 5 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 6.1 months, from around Jan 28 to Jul 31. The sunniest month is March, with roughly 4 sunny days (gloomy).

The greyest month is October, down near 0 sunny days — about 87% fewer than the March peak.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedMar 205 daysOct 130 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan2Gloomy
Feb2Gloomy
Mar4Gloomy
Apr3Gloomy
May2Gloomy
Jun2Gloomy
Jul2Gloomy
Aug1Gloomy
Sep1Gloomy
Oct1Gloomy
Nov1Gloomy
Dec1Gloomy

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

Mentiri is humid all year round — on a typical day the air feels at least humid, and there is no real dry season to wait for.

The stickiest month is January, when it feels muggy, oppressive or miserable about 100% of the time. Even in January, the mildest month, the air is dry or comfortable only 0% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecmiserableoppressive
Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan14851
Feb06040
Mar05248
Apr03070
May01585
Jun02971
Jul03961
Aug03763
Sep03664
Oct03070
Nov02476
Dec03169

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Across the year, average wind speed in Mentiri is typically calm, near 8 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 3.0 months, from around Dec 13 to Mar 14. The windiest month is January, averaging about 9 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Mar 15 to Jul 21, with April the calmest month at about 7 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmercalmlight breezeJan 30 · 10 km/hApr 28 · 7 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan9calm
Feb10calm
Mar8calm
Apr7calm
May7calm
Jun7calm
Jul8calm
Aug8calm
Sep8calm
Oct9calm
Nov8calm
Dec8calm

Hazard calendar for Mentiri

In seasonPeak

When the seasonal hazards worth planning around — the rainy season, tropical-cyclone risk and dust haze — are active through the year.

Mentiri sits in the Pacific typhoon belt; the season peaks July–October.

Pacific typhoon
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Mentiri

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Mentiri throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around late March, Mentiri is still near the tail of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds already thinning.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 18°C and 28°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Mentiri for general outdoor tourist activities is from late December to early April, with a peak score in the second week of February.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 8 · 4.2

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan3.8fair
Feb4.2fair
Mar3.8fair
Apr3.1poor
May3.0poor
Jun3.1poor
Jul3.1poor
Aug3.1poor
Sep2.9poor
Oct2.8poor
Nov2.8poor
Dec3.1poor

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Mentiri for hot-weather activities run from early January to late April and again from mid June to mid August, with a peak score in the last week of February.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 24 · 5.9

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Mentiri, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

Mentiri packs about the same all year — highs hold near 32°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In April, Mentiri sees daytime highs around 32°C and nights near 25°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 20 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Mentiri

Average ocean temperature at the nearest coast, month by month, banded into swim-comfort zones — the other half of the beach question.

The sea at the nearest coast (about 16 km away) is warmest in May at about 30°C and coldest in February near 28°C.

The water stays above 20°C all year — warm enough for a swim any month.

26°28°30°32°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan28Tropical
Feb28Warm
Mar29Tropical
Apr30Tropical
May30Tropical
Jun30Tropical
Jul30Tropical
Aug30Tropical
Sep30Tropical
Oct30Tropical
Nov30Tropical
Dec29Tropical

UV index (midday) in Mentiri by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Mentiri peaks around February 19 at about 14 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near November 23 at about 11 (extreme).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — every month of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeFeb 19UV 14Nov 23UV 11
UV index (midday)Level
Jan13Extreme
Feb15Extreme
Mar14Extreme
Apr15Extreme
May14Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct13Extreme
Nov11Extreme
Dec11Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Mentiri

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in February the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6.5 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan86
Feb86.5
Mar86.5
Apr86.5
May8.56.5
Jun86
Jul85.5
Aug86
Sep86.5
Oct86
Nov7.55.5
Dec7.55.5

Air quality in Mentiri by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in Mentiri is worst in September — around 17 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 2.0× the cleanest month (December, 9 µg/m³).

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

01020JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodSep 1417 µg/m³Dec 109 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan10Good
Feb11Good
Mar15Moderate
Apr16Moderate
May16Moderate
Jun14Moderate
Jul14Moderate
Aug14Moderate
Sep17Moderate
Oct12Good
Nov9Good
Dec9Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Mentiri is frost-free year round — even the coldest nights rarely reach freezing, so there is no start or end to the growing season.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecfrost-free year round
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec1000

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 10°C: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Mentiri banks about 6,511 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around May.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan531
Feb484
Mar556
Apr554
May576
Jun549
Jul560
Aug562
Sep537
Oct542
Nov523
Dec537

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Mentiri receives about 5.4 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 4.8 and 6.0 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 66.0 kWhDec 204.8 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.0Bright
Feb5.5Bright
Mar5.9Bright
Apr5.9Bright
May5.6Bright
Jun5.3Bright
Jul5.5Bright
Aug5.7Bright
Sep5.7Bright
Oct5.2Bright
Nov4.9Bright
Dec4.8Bright

Where is Mentiri?

Mentiri sits at 5.0°N, 115.0°E, 8 m above sea level, in Brunei. The nearest listed city is Serasa, 7.0 km away.

Bandar Seri BegawanSengkurongLimbangBangar

Topography around Mentiri

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Mentiri.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Mentiri has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 126 m around an average of 28 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 197 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,921 m.

The land around Mentiri is covered by trees (40%) and water (21%) within 3 km, water (61%) and trees (21%) within 16 km, and trees (53%) and water (42%) within 80 km.

3 km
126 m
16 km
197 m
80 km
1,921 m
treesgrasslandartificial surfacesbare terrainwatermangroves
Nearby: Serasa 7.0 km · Muara 8.0 km · Bandar Seri Begawan 13 km · Sengkurong 23 km · Limbang 24 km · Bangar 30 km · Labuan 43 km · Bandar Labuan 43 km

Brunei travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 1
Exercise Normal Precautions
Power plugs
Type G
240 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 35% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$32,235
2025
Homicide rate
0.5
per 100k, 2013
Road deaths
7.5
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
High
World Bank
Religion
Muslim 82%Christian 7%Buddhist 6%other 5%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Mentiri (4.9706°, 115.0208°, elevation 8 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. Tropical-cyclone seasons are the published climatological basin seasons (NOAA National Hurricane Center / regional warning centres). Sea temperatures are the NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology (public domain), sampled at the nearest ocean point. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).