Climate and average weather in Dompu

In Dompu, the weather is muggy, hot, wet, and mostly clear and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near hot levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around January.

Best: early May to early October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Dompu typically varies from 22°C to 32°C, and is rarely below 20°C or above 34°C. October is the hottest month of the year, while February is the coldest.

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

Hottest
Oct
32°
Coldest
Feb
25°
Wettest
Jan
323 mm
Driest
Aug
3 mm
Rain / yr
1532 mm
156 wet days
Daylight
11.5–12.5 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
32 m
8.5°S
Clearest
Sep
42% cloud

Dompu 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 May to early October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Dompu stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is October, with an average high of 32°C and low of 24°C; the coolest is February, with an average low of 25°C and high of 29°C.

Days typically run about 7°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 8°C) in August.

20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3025
Feb2925
Mar3025
Apr3024
May3024
Jun3023
Jul3022
Aug3022
Sep3123
Oct3224
Nov3225
Dec3025

How hot and cold Dompu 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, Dompu feels like about 37°C (around November 17). About 346 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in November.

20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan36302525
Feb35292525
Mar36302525
Apr36302424
May35302424
Jun33302323
Jul32302222
Aug32302222
Sep34312323
Oct36322424
Nov37322525
Dec36302525

Average hourly temperature in Dompu

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 October afternoons, near 32°C, and coldest before dawn in February, near 25°C.

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

Dompu 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°32326.912.43.0
Feb29° / 25°29224.812.33.0
Mar30° / 25°25524.812.13.3
Apr30° / 24°14117.511.83.9
May30° / 24°467.111.65.2
Jun30° / 23°21411.55.7
Jul30° / 22°142.111.66.1
Aug30° / 22°30.711.76.0
Sep31° / 23°91.311.95.4
Oct32° / 24°315.312.24.6
Nov32° / 25°1211512.43.6
Dec30° / 25°2762612.53.0

Chance of rain

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

Dompu gets about 1532 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is often wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 5.4 months, from around Nov 12 to Apr 24, peaking in January at about 90% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Aug 16.

January is the wettest month by volume, with 323 mm over about 27 wet days; August is the driest, with 3 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJan 29 · 90%Aug 16 · 2%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan8727
Feb8925
Mar8025
Apr5718
May237
Jun144
Jul72
Aug21
Sep51
Oct185
Nov5015
Dec8326

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Dompu collects about 1532 mm of rain across 156 wet days — roughly 128 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. January is the wettest month with 323 mm, while August is the driest at just 3 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 58% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec3232922551414621143931121276
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan32327
Feb29225
Mar25525
Apr14118
May467
Jun214
Jul142
Aug31
Sep91
Oct315
Nov12115
Dec27626

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Dompu, 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 April 21 and lasts for 6.8 months, ending around November 14. The clearest month is September, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 72% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around November 15 and lasts for 5.2 months, ending around April 20. The cloudiest month is January, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 90% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecSep 8 · 74%Jan 29 · 7%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan1090
Feb1090
Mar2476
Apr4258
May5941
Jun6436
Jul6832
Aug7228
Sep7228
Oct6436
Nov4456
Dec1684

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 30 min of light; the shortest, around May 30, only 11 h 30 min — a swing of roughly 1 hour.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan12.46:026:29
Feb12.36:126:29
Mar12.16:146:18
Apr11.86:126:01
May11.66:145:51
Jun11.56:215:52
Jul11.66:255:58
Aug11.76:196:02
Sep11.96:025:59
Oct12.25:455:57
Nov12.45:406:03
Dec12.55:476:17

Sunny days

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

Dompu averages about 9 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 1 and 16 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 6.6 months, from around Apr 26 to Nov 12. The sunniest month is September, with roughly 15 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is January, down near 1 sunny days — about 94% fewer than the September peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightSep 216 daysJan 301 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan1Gloomy
Feb1Gloomy
Mar3Gloomy
Apr6Gloomy
May12Mixed
Jun12Mixed
Jul13Mixed
Aug15Mixed
Sep15Bright
Oct14Mixed
Nov8Gloomy
Dec2Gloomy

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.

Dompu 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecmiserableoppressivemuggy
Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan002773
Feb002674
Mar003169
Apr014257
May087021
Jun131626
Jul463312
Aug672220
Sep254422
Oct018748
Nov026632
Dec003367

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 Dompu is typically calm, near 7 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.4 months, from around May 9 to Oct 19. The windiest month is July, averaging about 9 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Oct 20 to May 8, with March the calmest month at about 5 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeJul 6 · 9 km/hMar 31 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb7calm
Mar5calm
Apr5calm
May7calm
Jun8calm
Jul9calm
Aug8calm
Sep8calm
Oct7calm
Nov6calm
Dec6calm

Hazard calendar for Dompu

In seasonPeak

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

Dompu sits in the South Indian Ocean cyclone belt; the season peaks January–March.

Dompu's monsoon runs December–March, when most of the year's rain falls.

Cyclone
Monsoon
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Dompu

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid May, Dompu 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 time of year to visit Dompu for general outdoor tourist activities is from early May to early October, with a peak score in the last week of July.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 25 · 6.2

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
Jan3.0poor
Feb3.0poor
Mar3.3poor
Apr4.0fair
May5.2fair
Jun5.7good
Jul6.1good
Aug6.0good
Sep5.4fair
Oct4.6fair
Nov3.6fair
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 Dompu for hot-weather activities is from early May to late October, with a peak score in the second week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 11 · 8.4

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 Dompu, 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.

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

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In October, Dompu sees daytime highs around 32°C and nights near 24°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 5 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Dompu

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 39 km away) is warmest in December at about 29°C and coldest in August near 26°C.

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

24°26°28°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan29Tropical
Feb29Tropical
Mar29Tropical
Apr29Tropical
May28Tropical
Jun27Warm
Jul26Warm
Aug26Warm
Sep27Warm
Oct28Warm
Nov29Tropical
Dec29Tropical

UV index (midday) in Dompu 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 Dompu peaks around March 13 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near June 22 at about 10 (very high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highExtremeMar 13UV 15Jun 22UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan13Extreme
Feb15Extreme
Mar15Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May11Extreme
Jun10Very high
Jul10Very high
Aug12Extreme
Sep14Extreme
Oct13Extreme
Nov12Extreme
Dec13Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Dompu

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 7 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
Mar8.57
Apr86
May7.55.5
Jun74.5
Jul75
Aug7.56
Sep86.5
Oct86
Nov86
Dec8.56.5

Air quality in Dompu 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 Dompu is worst in October — around 27 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 2.9× the cleanest month (February, 9 µg/m³).

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

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateModerateOct 1726 µg/m³Feb 229 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan12Moderate
Feb9Good
Mar9Good
Apr12Good
May14Moderate
Jun13Moderate
Jul12Good
Aug14Moderate
Sep21Moderate
Oct27Moderate
Nov21Moderate
Dec12Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Dompu 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. Dompu banks about 6,243 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around November.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan531
Feb477
Mar532
Apr520
May529
Jun495
Jul496
Aug500
Sep512
Oct559
Nov548
Dec543

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.

Dompu receives about 6.1 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — intense — with a clear seasonal swing between 5.2 and 7.2 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 3.8 months, from around Aug 13 to Dec 6. The brightest month is October, averaging about 7.2 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is June, down near 5.3 kWh/m² — roughly 27% less than the October peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseOct 207.2 kWhJun 185.2 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.8Bright
Feb5.7Bright
Mar6.0Intense
Apr5.9Bright
May5.6Bright
Jun5.2Bright
Jul5.5Bright
Aug6.2Intense
Sep6.9Intense
Oct7.2Intense
Nov6.8Intense
Dec5.8Bright

Where is Dompu?

Dompu sits at 8.5°S, 118.5°E, 32 m above sea level, in Indonesia. The nearest listed city is Bima, 30 km away.

Topography around Dompu

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Dompu has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 250 m around an average of 49 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,258 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,674 m.

The land around Dompu is covered by trees (44%) and cropland (29%) within 3 km, trees (49%) and grassland (26%) within 16 km, and water (60%) and trees (22%) within 80 km.

3 km
250 m
16 km
1,258 m
80 km
2,674 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswatermangroves
Nearby: Bima 30 km · Sumbawa Besar 115 km · Tambolaka 131 km · Labuan Bajo 157 km · Taliwang 179 km · Selong 213 km · Ruteng 220 km · Waingapu 234 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 Dompu (-8.5365°, 118.4634°, elevation 32 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).