Climate and average weather in Tutong

In Tutong, 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 November.

Best: mid May to early October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Tutong typically varies from 24°C to 30°C, and is rarely below 23°C or above 32°C. May is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Tutong for warm-weather activities are from mid May to early October and late December to mid April.

Hottest
May
30°
Coldest
Jan
24°
Wettest
Nov
272 mm
Driest
Mar
144 mm
Rain / yr
2541 mm
290 wet days
Daylight
11.7–12.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
8 m
4.8°N
Clearest
Apr
78% cloud

Tutong 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 May to early October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Tutong stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is May, with an average high of 30°C and low of 25°C; the coolest is January, with an average low of 24°C and high of 29°C.

Days typically run about 5°C warmer than nights year-round.

20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2924
Feb2924
Mar2924
Apr3025
May3025
Jun3025
Jul3025
Aug3025
Sep3025
Oct3024
Nov3024
Dec2924

How hot and cold Tutong 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, Tutong feels like about 38°C (around May 2). Nearly every day a year carries some heat stress, peaking in May.

20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan33292424
Feb33292424
Mar35292424
Apr37302525
May38302525
Jun37302525
Jul36302525
Aug36302525
Sep35302525
Oct35302424
Nov35302424
Dec34292424

Average hourly temperature in Tutong

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 30°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 24°C.

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

Tutong 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
Jan29° / 24°22624.311.83.5
Feb29° / 24°16020.311.83.8
Mar29° / 24°14422.7123.6
Apr30° / 25°19425.512.13.0
May30° / 25°20824.312.23.1
Jun30° / 25°21121.412.33.4
Jul30° / 25°1942212.33.4
Aug30° / 25°19521.812.23.4
Sep30° / 25°21423.4123.2
Oct30° / 24°25827.611.93.0
Nov30° / 24°27228.211.82.8
Dec29° / 24°26628.211.73.0

Chance of rain

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

Tutong gets about 2541 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 3.7 months, from around Sep 25 to Jan 15, peaking in November at about 94% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Aug 2.

November is the wettest month by volume, with 272 mm over about 28 wet days; March is the driest, with 144 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetNov 13 · 94%Aug 2 · 66%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan7924
Feb7220
Mar7423
Apr8526
May7924
Jun7221
Jul7122
Aug7122
Sep7823
Oct8928
Nov9328
Dec9028

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Tutong collects about 2541 mm of rain across 290 wet days — roughly 212 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. November is the wettest month with 272 mm, while March is the driest at just 144 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 31% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec226160144194208211194195214258272266
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan22624
Feb16020
Mar14423
Apr19426
May20824
Jun21121
Jul19422
Aug19522
Sep21423
Oct25828
Nov27228
Dec26628

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Tutong, 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 7.0 months, ending around September 6. The clearest month is March, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 20% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around September 7 and lasts for 5.0 months, ending around February 6. The cloudiest month is October, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 93% 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 · 23%Oct 20 · 6%mostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan1189
Feb1585
Mar2080
Apr2080
May1783
Jun1684
Jul1981
Aug1783
Sep1387
Oct793
Nov892
Dec793

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, Tutong 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)
Jan11.86:386:23
Feb11.86:416:31
Mar12.06:326:30
Apr12.16:186:25
May12.26:116:24
Jun12.36:136:30
Jul12.36:196:35
Aug12.26:216:30
Sep12.06:156:17
Oct11.96:106:03
Nov11.86:136:00
Dec11.76:266:09

Sunny days

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

Tutong gets about 1 sunny days a month gloomy — and it barely shifts through the year, holding between 0 and 3 days every month. Clear skies here are a flat line, not a season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgloomymixedMar 193 daysOct 130 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan1Gloomy
Feb1Gloomy
Mar3Gloomy
Apr2Gloomy
May2Gloomy
Jun2Gloomy
Jul2Gloomy
Aug1Gloomy
Sep1Gloomy
Oct0Gloomy
Nov0Gloomy
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.

Tutong 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 (%)
Jan15643
Feb05842
Mar04159
Apr01585
May01090
Jun02575
Jul04159
Aug03763
Sep04456
Oct04753
Nov04258
Dec04456

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.

Wind in Tutong is steady company: average speeds sit near 8 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeFeb 1 · 9 km/hMay 22 · 7 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan9calm
Feb9calm
Mar8calm
Apr7calm
May7calm
Jun7calm
Jul8calm
Aug8calm
Sep8calm
Oct8calm
Nov8calm
Dec8calm

Hazard calendar for Tutong

In seasonPeak

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

Tutong 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 Tutong

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late September, Tutong 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. In Tutong it holds close to 3.8 all year, so any month is about as good as another for general outdoor tourist activities.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDectravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitation

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
Jan3.5fair
Feb3.8fair
Mar3.6fair
Apr3.0poor
May3.1poor
Jun3.4poor
Jul3.4poor
Aug3.4poor
Sep3.2poor
Oct3.0poor
Nov2.8poor
Dec3.0poor

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 Tutong for hot-weather activities is from late December to mid October, with a peak score in the first week of March.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationMar 5 · 4.9

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 Tutong, 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.

Tutong packs about the same all year — highs hold near 30°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, Tutong sees daytime highs around 30°C and nights near 25°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 24 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Tutong

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

The sea offshore 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 Tutong 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 Tutong 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 Tutong

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
May86.5
Jun86
Jul86
Aug86
Sep86
Oct86
Nov7.55.5
Dec7.55.5

Air quality in Tutong 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 Tutong is worst in September — around 25 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

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

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateSep 1525 µg/m³Dec 1916 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan17Moderate
Feb21Moderate
Mar24Moderate
Apr22Moderate
May23Moderate
Jun21Moderate
Jul21Moderate
Aug21Moderate
Sep25Moderate
Oct20Moderate
Nov18Moderate
Dec16Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Tutong 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. Tutong banks about 6,235 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)
Jan510
Feb461
Mar524
Apr522
May548
Jun526
Jul538
Aug539
Sep516
Oct525
Nov506
Dec520

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.

Tutong receives about 5.2 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 4.5 and 5.7 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 85.7 kWhDec 204.5 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.8Bright
Feb5.2Bright
Mar5.6Bright
Apr5.6Bright
May5.4Bright
Jun5.2Bright
Jul5.3Bright
Aug5.5Bright
Sep5.5Bright
Oct5.0Bright
Nov4.7Bright
Dec4.5Bright

Where is Tutong?

Tutong sits at 4.8°N, 114.6°E, 8 m above sea level, in Brunei. The nearest listed city is Liang, 22 km away.

LiangSengkurongBandar Seri BegawanLimbangSeriaMentiriBangarSerasa

Topography around Tutong

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Tutong has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 79 m around an average of 9 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 120 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,383 m.

The land around Tutong is covered by trees (44%) and water (31%) within 3 km, water (47%) and trees (46%) within 16 km, and trees (57%) and water (39%) within 80 km.

3 km
79 m
16 km
120 m
80 km
1,383 m
treesshrubsgrasslandartificial surfacesbare terrainwatermangroves
Nearby: Liang 22 km · Sengkurong 22 km · Bandar Seri Begawan 34 km · Limbang 40 km · Seria 42 km · Mentiri 45 km · Bangar 48 km · Serasa 51 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 Tutong (4.8028°, 114.6492°, 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).