Climate and average weather in Sengkurong

In Sengkurong, 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 December.

Best: mid January to mid April

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Sengkurong typically varies from 25°C to 29°C, and is rarely below 24°C or above 30°C. May is the hottest month of the year, while February is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Sengkurong for warm-weather activities are from mid January to mid April and mid July to mid August.

Hottest
May
29°
Coldest
Feb
25°
Wettest
Dec
266 mm
Driest
Mar
86 mm
Rain / yr
2252 mm
260 wet days
Daylight
11.7–12.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
14 m
4.9°N
Clearest
Apr
72% cloud

Sengkurong 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 mid January to mid April.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Sengkurong stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is May, with an average high of 29°C and low of 26°C; the coolest is February, with an average low of 25°C and high of 27°C.

Days typically run about 2°C warmer than nights year-round.

18°20°22°24°26°28°30°32°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2725
Feb2725
Mar2726
Apr2826
May2926
Jun2926
Jul2826
Aug2826
Sep2826
Oct2826
Nov2826
Dec2826

How hot and cold Sengkurong 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, Sengkurong feels like about 34°C (around May 19). About 174 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in May.

24°26°28°30°32°34°36°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan29272525
Feb27272525
Mar31272626
Apr33282626
May34292626
Jun33292626
Jul33282626
Aug33282626
Sep32282626
Oct31282626
Nov31282626
Dec31282526

Average hourly temperature in Sengkurong

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 May afternoons, near 29°C, and coldest before dawn in February, near 25°C.

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

Sengkurong 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
Jan27° / 25°19621.911.74.5
Feb27° / 25°11616.411.85.1
Mar27° / 26°8616.9125.2
Apr28° / 26°13621.112.14.3
May29° / 26°16621.812.24.0
Jun29° / 26°20819.512.34.2
Jul28° / 26°18719.112.34.4
Aug28° / 26°17819.412.24.3
Sep28° / 26°20221.5124.1
Oct28° / 26°25126.811.93.7
Nov28° / 26°26028.111.83.5
Dec28° / 26°26627.511.73.7

Chance of rain

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

Sengkurong gets about 2252 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 3.9 months, from around Sep 21 to Jan 16, peaking in November at about 95% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Mar 11.

December is the wettest month by volume, with 266 mm over about 28 wet days; March is the driest, with 86 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetNov 16 · 95%Mar 11 · 52%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan7222
Feb5816
Mar5517
Apr7121
May7022
Jun6520
Jul6119
Aug6319
Sep7222
Oct8627
Nov9328
Dec8728

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Sengkurong collects about 2252 mm of rain across 260 wet days — roughly 188 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. December is the wettest month with 266 mm, while March is the driest at just 86 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 35% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec19611686136166208187178202251260266
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan19622
Feb11616
Mar8617
Apr13621
May16622
Jun20820
Jul18719
Aug17819
Sep20222
Oct25127
Nov26028
Dec26628

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Sengkurong, 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 2 and lasts for 4.1 months, ending around June 7. The clearest month is April, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 29% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around August 22 and lasts for 5.4 months, ending around February 1. The cloudiest month is October, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 89% 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 7 · 33%Oct 23 · 10%mostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan1486
Feb2179
Mar2872
Apr2971
May2278
Jun1981
Jul2179
Aug1981
Sep1486
Oct1189
Nov1288
Dec1189

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, Sengkurong 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)
Jan11.76:386:22
Feb11.86:406:30
Mar12.06:316:29
Apr12.16:186:24
May12.26:106:24
Jun12.36:126:29
Jul12.36:196:34
Aug12.26:206:30
Sep12.06:146:16
Oct11.96:096:02
Nov11.86:135:59
Dec11.76:256:08

Sunny days

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

Sengkurong averages about 2 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 1 and 5 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.0 months, from around Jan 18 to Jun 17. The sunniest month is March, with roughly 5 sunny days (gloomy).

The greyest month is October, down near 1 sunny days — about 84% fewer than the March peak.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyergloomymixedMar 205 daysOct 161 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan2Gloomy
Feb3Gloomy
Mar5Gloomy
Apr4Gloomy
May3Gloomy
Jun2Gloomy
Jul3Gloomy
Aug2Gloomy
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.

Sengkurong 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 (%)
Jan17623
Feb07425
Mar05941
Apr03565
May02377
Jun04159
Jul05446
Aug05347
Sep06238
Oct07129
Nov07228
Dec07228

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 Sengkurong is typically calm, near 12 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 3.2 months, from around Dec 11 to Mar 16. The windiest month is January, averaging about 14 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Mar 17 to Jul 25, with April the calmest month at about 10 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmercalmlight breezeJan 31 · 15 km/hApr 29 · 10 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan14light breeze
Feb14light breeze
Mar12calm
Apr10calm
May10calm
Jun11calm
Jul11calm
Aug12calm
Sep12calm
Oct12light breeze
Nov11calm
Dec12light breeze

Hazard calendar for Sengkurong

In seasonPeak

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

Sengkurong 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 Sengkurong

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late January, Sengkurong is still near the start of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds not yet at full swing.

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 times of year to visit Sengkurong for general outdoor tourist activities run from mid January to mid April and again from mid July to mid August, with a peak score in the second week of March.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationMar 12 · 5.4

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
Jan4.4fair
Feb5.1fair
Mar5.2fair
Apr4.3fair
May4.0fair
Jun4.2fair
Jul4.4fair
Aug4.3fair
Sep4.1fair
Oct3.8fair
Nov3.5poor
Dec3.7fair

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Sengkurong for hot-weather activities is from mid January to late September, with a peak score in the second week of March.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationMar 13 · 5.6

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 Sengkurong, 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.

Sengkurong packs about the same all year — highs hold near 29°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 May, Sengkurong sees daytime highs around 29°C and nights near 26°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 22 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Sengkurong

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 23 km away) is warmest in May at about 30°C and coldest in February near 27°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
Jan28Warm
Feb27Warm
Mar28Warm
Apr29Tropical
May30Tropical
Jun30Tropical
Jul30Tropical
Aug30Tropical
Sep30Tropical
Oct29Tropical
Nov29Tropical
Dec29Tropical

UV index (midday) in Sengkurong 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 Sengkurong peaks around February 18 at about 14 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 10 at about 11 (extreme).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeFeb 18UV 14Dec 10UV 11
UV index (midday)Level
Jan13Extreme
Feb14Extreme
Mar14Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May14Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct13Extreme
Nov11Extreme
Dec11Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Sengkurong

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
Oct86
Nov7.55.5
Dec7.55.5

Air quality in Sengkurong 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 Sengkurong 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

Sengkurong 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. Sengkurong banks about 6,147 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)
Jan501
Feb449
Mar510
Apr513
May543
Jun524
Jul536
Aug535
Sep510
Oct516
Nov498
Dec511

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.

Sengkurong 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 194.8 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.0Bright
Feb5.5Bright
Mar6.0Bright
Apr6.0Bright
May5.6Bright
Jun5.3Bright
Jul5.4Bright
Aug5.7Bright
Sep5.7Bright
Oct5.2Bright
Nov4.9Bright
Dec4.8Bright

Where is Sengkurong?

Sengkurong sits at 4.9°N, 114.8°E, 14 m above sea level, in Brunei. The nearest listed city is Bandar Seri Begawan, 12 km away.

Bandar Seri BegawanTutongMentiriLimbangSerasaMuaraBangarLiang

Topography around Sengkurong

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Sengkurong has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 119 m around an average of 24 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 198 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,621 m.

The land around Sengkurong is covered by trees (65%) and artificial surfaces (24%) within 3 km, trees (56%) and water (29%) within 16 km, and trees (53%) and water (43%) within 80 km.

3 km
119 m
16 km
198 m
80 km
1,621 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswatermangroves
Nearby: Bandar Seri Begawan 12 km · Tutong 22 km · Mentiri 23 km · Limbang 24 km · Serasa 29 km · Muara 31 km · Bangar 33 km · Liang 44 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 Sengkurong (4.8833°, 114.8333°, elevation 14 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).