Climate and average weather in Bandung

In Bandung, the weather is humid, warm, wet, and mostly cloudy and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near warm levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around November.

Best: late May to early October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Bandung typically varies from 17°C to 26°C, and is rarely below 15°C or above 28°C. May is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Bandung for warm-weather activities is from late May to early October.

Hottest
May
26°
Coldest
Jan
19°
Wettest
Nov
492 mm
Driest
Aug
106 mm
Rain / yr
3639 mm
293 wet days
Daylight
11.6–12.4 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
714 m
6.9°S
Clearest
Aug
65% cloud

Bandung is former higher education institution in Bandung, Indonesia.

Air quality
High
PM2.5 33 µg/m³ · 2014
Founded
2023

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

Bandung 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 late May to early October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Bandung stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is May, with an average high of 26°C and low of 19°C; the coolest is January, with an average low of 19°C and high of 25°C.

Days typically run about 7°C warmer than nights year-round.

15°20°25°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2519
Feb2519
Mar2519
Apr2619
May2619
Jun2618
Jul2618
Aug2617
Sep2618
Oct2619
Nov2619
Dec2519

Average hourly temperature in Bandung

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 26°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 19°C.

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

Bandung 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
Jan25° / 19°39729.712.43.6
Feb25° / 19°38627.312.23.5
Mar25° / 19°43530.2123.5
Apr26° / 19°36428.511.93.6
May26° / 19°21724.711.74.3
Jun26° / 18°15219.311.65.1
Jul26° / 18°1241811.65.5
Aug26° / 17°10615.611.85.8
Sep26° / 18°15717.8125.3
Oct26° / 19°35223.912.24.4
Nov26° / 19°49227.912.33.6
Dec25° / 19°45729.612.43.5

Chance of rain

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

Bandung gets about 3639 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 6.7 months, from around Oct 24 to May 15, peaking in January at about 99% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Aug 5.

November is the wettest month by volume, with 492 mm over about 28 wet days; August is the driest, with 106 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJan 31 · 99%Aug 5 · 48%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan9630
Feb9827
Mar9830
Apr9529
May8025
Jun6519
Jul5718
Aug5116
Sep6018
Oct7624
Nov9328
Dec9530

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Bandung collects about 3639 mm of rain across 293 wet days — roughly 303 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. November is the wettest month with 492 mm, while August is the driest at just 106 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 38% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400450500550JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec397386435364217152124106157352492457
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan39730
Feb38627
Mar43530
Apr36429
May21725
Jun15219
Jul12418
Aug10616
Sep15718
Oct35224
Nov49228
Dec45730

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

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

The clearer part of the year begins around May 8 and lasts for 5.5 months, ending around October 20. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 40% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 21 and lasts for 6.5 months, ending around May 7. The cloudiest month is February, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 99% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecAug 2 · 44%Feb 3 · 1%mostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan397
Feb199
Mar496
Apr892
May2575
Jun3763
Jul3961
Aug4060
Sep3268
Oct2080
Nov793
Dec397

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. The longest day, around January 1, brings about 12 h 24 min of light; the shortest, around May 25, only 11 h 36 min — a swing of roughly 0 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan12.45:486:10
Feb12.25:576:11
Mar12.05:586:01
Apr11.95:545:45
May11.75:555:36
Jun11.66:025:38
Jul11.66:065:44
Aug11.86:015:47
Sep12.05:455:43
Oct12.25:305:39
Nov12.35:255:44
Dec12.45:345:58

Sunny days

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

Bandung 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 5.2 months, from around May 13 to Oct 16. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 4 sunny days (gloomy).

The greyest month is January, down near 0 sunny days — about 94% fewer than the July peak.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedJul 315 daysJan 260 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan0Gloomy
Feb0Gloomy
Mar0Gloomy
Apr0Gloomy
May2Gloomy
Jun4Gloomy
Jul4Gloomy
Aug4Gloomy
Sep3Gloomy
Oct1Gloomy
Nov0Gloomy
Dec0Gloomy

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.

Bandung 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 92% of the time. Even in August, the mildest month, the air is dry or comfortable only 13% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecAug 4 · 16%Jan 1 · 0%muggyhumidcomfortablehumidcomfortablehumid
Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan0892
Feb0793
Mar0595
Apr0397
May01188
Jun23167
Jul104842
Aug135829
Sep85437
Oct33364
Nov01090
Dec0892

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 Bandung is steady company: average speeds sit near 3 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmJan 26 · 4 km/hMay 6 · 3 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan4calm
Feb4calm
Mar4calm
Apr3calm
May3calm
Jun3calm
Jul3calm
Aug3calm
Sep3calm
Oct3calm
Nov3calm
Dec4calm

Best time to visit Bandung

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late September, Bandung 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 Bandung for general outdoor tourist activities is from late May to early October, with a peak score in the first week of August.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 5 · 5.9

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
Jan3.6fair
Feb3.5poor
Mar3.5fair
Apr3.6fair
May4.3fair
Jun5.1fair
Jul5.5fair
Aug5.8good
Sep5.2fair
Oct4.4fair
Nov3.7fair
Dec3.5fair

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 Bandung for hot-weather activities is from late May to early October, with a peak score in the first week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 5 · 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 Bandung, 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.

Bandung packs about the same all year — highs hold near 26°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, Bandung sees daytime highs around 26°C and nights near 19°C. Pack rain gear. Worth having: light clothes and sun protection. About 25 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Bandung 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 Bandung peaks around March 16 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near November 16 at about 8 (very high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highExtremeVery highExtremeMar 16UV 15Nov 16UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan12Extreme
Feb11Extreme
Mar15Extreme
Apr10Extreme
May9Very high
Jun8Very high
Jul9Very high
Aug11Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov7Very high
Dec12Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Bandung

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 March the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8.5 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
Mar8.56.5
Apr7.55
May74.5
Jun6.53.5
Jul74.5
Aug7.55
Sep86
Oct85.5
Nov73.5
Dec86

Air quality in Bandung 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 Bandung is worst in May — around 42 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

Seasonal pattern from CAMS reanalysis, scaled to Bandung's WHO annual average of 33 µg/m³.

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorModerateMay 2142 µg/m³Jan 1127 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan27Moderate
Feb28Moderate
Mar33Moderate
Apr37Poor
May42Poor
Jun41Poor
Jul38Poor
Aug32Moderate
Sep30Moderate
Oct29Moderate
Nov30Moderate
Dec27Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Bandung 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. Bandung banks about 4,425 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around May.

01,0002,0003,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan368
Feb332
Mar381
Apr380
May393
Jun364
Jul359
Aug359
Sep358
Oct380
Nov372
Dec379

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.

Bandung receives about 4.8 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.1 and 5.9 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.4 months, from around Jun 27 to Nov 6. The brightest month is September, averaging about 5.8 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is January, down near 4.2 kWh/m² — roughly 27% less than the September peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseSep 155.9 kWhJan 304.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.3Bright
Feb4.3Bright
Mar4.5Bright
Apr4.6Bright
May4.8Bright
Jun4.7Bright
Jul5.0Bright
Aug5.6Bright
Sep5.9Bright
Oct5.5Bright
Nov4.6Bright
Dec4.3Bright

Where is Bandung?

Bandung sits at 6.9°S, 107.6°E, 714 m above sea level, in Indonesia. The nearest listed city is Margahayukencana, 7.0 km away.

What Bandung looks like

Topography around Bandung

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Bandung has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 94 m around an average of 707 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,221 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,993 m.

The land around Bandung is covered by artificial surfaces (93%) within 3 km, artificial surfaces (43%) and trees (37%) within 16 km, and trees (66%) and cropland (22%) within 80 km.

3 km
94 m
16 km
1,221 m
80 km
2,993 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Margahayukencana 7.0 km · Cimahi 9.0 km · Pameungpeuk 11 km · Lembang 12 km · Banjaran 14 km · Soreang 16 km · Cileunyi 16 km · Padalarang 18 km

Indonesia travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type C / F
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 29% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$5,060
2025
Happiness
5.6 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
30%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
0.3
per 100k, 2022
Road deaths
11.3
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Upper middle
World Bank
English
Low
EF EPI 471
Religion
Muslim 87%Protestant 8%Roman Catholic 3%Hindu 2%

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 Bandung (-6.9222°, 107.6069°, elevation 714 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. 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).