Climate and average weather in Curup

In Curup, 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 April to early November

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Curup typically varies from 19°C to 27°C, and is rarely below 18°C or above 29°C. May is the hottest month of the year, while December is the coldest.

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

Hottest
May
27°
Coldest
Dec
19°
Wettest
Nov
404 mm
Driest
Jun
198 mm
Rain / yr
3656 mm
309 wet days
Daylight
11.8–12.2 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
630 m
3.5°S
Clearest
Jun
73% cloud

Curup is capital of Rejang Lebong Regency, Bengkulu Province, Indonesia.

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

Curup 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 April to early November.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Curup stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is May, with an average high of 27°C and low of 20°C; the coolest is December, with an average low of 19°C and high of 26°C.

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

15°20°25°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2619
Feb2719
Mar2720
Apr2720
May2720
Jun2719
Jul2719
Aug2719
Sep2719
Oct2719
Nov2720
Dec2619

Average hourly temperature in Curup

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 27°C, and coldest before dawn in December, near 19°C.

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

Curup 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
Jan26° / 19°36928.112.23.7
Feb27° / 19°31523.812.13.9
Mar27° / 20°34326.8123.7
Apr27° / 20°33427.811.93.5
May27° / 20°27026.411.83.9
Jun27° / 19°19822.411.84.4
Jul27° / 19°21823.411.84.4
Aug27° / 19°23423.511.94.4
Sep27° / 19°25423.6124.2
Oct27° / 19°34126.812.13.8
Nov27° / 20°40427.912.23.5
Dec26° / 19°37528.712.23.5

Chance of rain

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

Curup gets about 3656 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 4.0 months, from around Oct 8 to Feb 6, peaking in November at about 94% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jun 22.

November is the wettest month by volume, with 404 mm over about 28 wet days; June is the driest, with 198 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetNov 29 · 94%Jun 22 · 72%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan9028
Feb8524
Mar8727
Apr9228
May8526
Jun7522
Jul7623
Aug7624
Sep7924
Oct8627
Nov9328
Dec9329

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Curup collects about 3656 mm of rain across 309 wet days — roughly 305 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. November is the wettest month with 404 mm, while June is the driest at just 198 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 31% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400450JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec369315343334270198218234254341404375
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan36928
Feb31524
Mar34327
Apr33428
May27026
Jun19822
Jul21823
Aug23424
Sep25424
Oct34127
Nov40428
Dec37529

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Curup, 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 9 and lasts for 5.0 months, ending around October 8. The clearest month is June, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 28% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 9 and lasts for 7.0 months, ending around May 8. The cloudiest month is December, 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJun 22 · 33%Dec 10 · 0%mostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan298
Feb397
Mar496
Apr595
May1486
Jun2872
Jul2476
Aug2377
Sep1684
Oct991
Nov496
Dec199

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, Curup barely changes through the year: days stay near 12 h 12 min of light in every season.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan12.26:146:25
Feb12.16:216:28
Mar12.06:196:20
Apr11.96:126:08
May11.86:116:01
Jun11.86:166:04
Jul11.86:216:10
Aug11.96:176:11
Sep12.06:056:04
Oct12.15:535:57
Nov12.25:506:00
Dec12.26:006:12

Sunny days

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

Curup averages about 1 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 4 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.5 months, from around May 11 to Sep 23. The sunniest month is June, with roughly 3 sunny days (gloomy).

The greyest month is January, down near 0 sunny days — about 96% fewer than the June peak.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedJun 214 daysJan 230 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan0Gloomy
Feb0Gloomy
Mar0Gloomy
Apr0Gloomy
May1Gloomy
Jun3Gloomy
Jul2Gloomy
Aug2Gloomy
Sep1Gloomy
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.

Curup 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 97% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecoppressivemuggyhumid
Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan3925
Feb3907
Mar38710
Apr08218
May17821
Jun3916
Jul6940
Aug9900
Sep7930
Oct6940
Nov1972
Dec2954

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

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmDec 14 · 4 km/hApr 27 · 3 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan4calm
Feb4calm
Mar4calm
Apr3calm
May3calm
Jun3calm
Jul3calm
Aug3calm
Sep3calm
Oct3calm
Nov4calm
Dec4calm

Best time to visit Curup

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late October, Curup 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 Curup it holds close to 4.5 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
Jan3.7fair
Feb3.8fair
Mar3.7fair
Apr3.5fair
May3.9fair
Jun4.4fair
Jul4.4fair
Aug4.4fair
Sep4.2fair
Oct3.8fair
Nov3.5fair
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 times of year to visit Curup for hot-weather activities run from early February to late March and again from late April to late October, with a peak score in the last week of June.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 22 · 4.7

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 Curup, 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.

Curup packs about the same all year — highs hold near 27°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, Curup sees daytime highs around 27°C and nights near 20°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 26 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Curup

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 47 km away) is warmest in May at about 30°C and coldest in September 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
Jan29Tropical
Feb29Tropical
Mar30Tropical
Apr30Tropical
May30Tropical
Jun30Tropical
Jul29Tropical
Aug29Tropical
Sep28Tropical
Oct28Tropical
Nov29Tropical
Dec29Tropical

UV index (midday) in Curup 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 Curup peaks around March 10 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near July 15 at about 9 (very high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highExtremeMar 10UV 15Jul 15UV 9
UV index (midday)Level
Jan14Extreme
Feb15Extreme
Mar16Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul9Very high
Aug11Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct15Extreme
Nov10Extreme
Dec13Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Curup

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)
Jan8.56.5
Feb8.56.5
Mar8.56.5
Apr86
May7.55.5
Jun7.55.5
Jul7.55
Aug7.55.5
Sep86
Oct86.5
Nov7.55.5
Dec86

Air quality in Curup 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 Curup is worst in October — around 35 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 2.1× the cleanest month (December, 17 µg/m³).

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

010203040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateModerateOct 1135 µg/m³Dec 2217 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan18Moderate
Feb20Moderate
Mar21Moderate
Apr20Moderate
May22Moderate
Jun23Moderate
Jul24Moderate
Aug27Moderate
Sep34Moderate
Oct35Poor
Nov23Moderate
Dec17Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Curup 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. Curup banks about 4,783 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around May.

02,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan398
Feb365
Mar411
Apr403
May423
Jun400
Jul400
Aug399
Sep391
Oct407
Nov390
Dec395

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.

Curup receives about 4.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 4.4 and 5.5 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseSep 185.5 kWhDec 114.4 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.7Bright
Feb5.0Bright
Mar5.0Bright
Apr4.9Bright
May4.9Bright
Jun4.9Bright
Jul4.9Bright
Aug5.3Bright
Sep5.5Bright
Oct5.2Bright
Nov4.6Bright
Dec4.4Bright

Where is Curup?

Curup sits at 3.5°S, 102.5°E, 630 m above sea level, in Indonesia. The nearest listed city is Lubuklinggau, 43 km away.

Topography around Curup

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Curup has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 137 m around an average of 640 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,732 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,456 m.

The land around Curup is covered by trees (46%), artificial surfaces (29%) and cropland (23%) within 3 km, trees (92%) within 16 km, and trees (83%) within 80 km.

3 km
137 m
16 km
1,732 m
80 km
2,456 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Lubuklinggau 43 km · Bengkulu 46 km · Pagar Alam 101 km · Lahat 119 km · Tanjungagung 152 km · Prabumulih 190 km · Baturaja 197 km · Sungai Penuh 201 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 Curup (-3.4703°, 102.5207°, elevation 630 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. 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).