Climate and average weather in Ende

In Ende, the weather is muggy, hot, wet, and partly cloudy and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near hot levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around December.

Best: late May to late September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Ende typically varies from 22°C to 31°C, and is rarely below 20°C or above 33°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 Ende for warm-weather activities is from late May to late September.

Hottest
Oct
31°
Coldest
Feb
24°
Wettest
Dec
320 mm
Driest
Aug
10 mm
Rain / yr
1831 mm
201 wet days
Daylight
11.5–12.5 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
31 m
8.8°S
Clearest
Sep
46% cloud

Ende is capital of Ende Regency, Indonesia.

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

Ende 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 late September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Ende stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is October, with an average high of 31°C and low of 24°C; the coolest is February, with an average low of 24°C and high of 29°C.

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

20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2924
Feb2924
Mar2924
Apr3024
May3023
Jun2922
Jul2922
Aug3022
Sep3122
Oct3124
Nov3124
Dec3024

How hot and cold Ende 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, Ende feels like about 35°C (around November 9). About 278 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in November.

20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan33292424
Feb32292424
Mar33292424
Apr34302424
May33302323
Jun32292222
Jul31292222
Aug31302222
Sep33312222
Oct34312424
Nov35312424
Dec34302424

Average hourly temperature in Ende

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 31°C, and coldest before dawn in February, near 24°C.

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

Ende 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°31230.112.52.8
Feb29° / 24°30027.212.32.8
Mar29° / 24°28727.712.13.1
Apr30° / 24°17321.211.83.6
May30° / 23°831211.64.7
Jun29° / 22°377.711.55.5
Jul29° / 22°234.911.56.0
Aug30° / 22°10311.76.0
Sep31° / 22°244.311.95.4
Oct31° / 24°6810.912.24.3
Nov31° / 24°19522.612.43.2
Dec30° / 24°3202912.52.8

Chance of rain

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

Ende gets about 1831 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 5.6 months, from around Nov 4 to Apr 23, peaking in January at about 99% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Aug 17.

December is the wettest month by volume, with 320 mm over about 29 wet days; August is the driest, with 10 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJan 24 · 99%Aug 17 · 9%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan9730
Feb9727
Mar9028
Apr6921
May3912
Jun278
Jul165
Aug93
Sep154
Oct3611
Nov7423
Dec9329

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Ende collects about 1831 mm of rain across 201 wet days — roughly 153 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. December is the wettest month with 320 mm, while August is the driest at just 10 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 51% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec312300287173833723102468195320
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan31230
Feb30027
Mar28728
Apr17321
May8312
Jun378
Jul235
Aug103
Sep244
Oct6811
Nov19523
Dec32029

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Ende, 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 6.9 months, ending around November 16. The clearest month is September, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 66% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around November 17 and lasts for 5.1 months, ending around April 20. The cloudiest month is February, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 92% 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 22 · 67%Jan 30 · 6%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan991
Feb892
Mar2179
Apr3664
May5149
Jun5248
Jul5842
Aug6535
Sep6634
Oct6040
Nov4060
Dec1387

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 26, 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)
Jan12.55:496:17
Feb12.35:596:17
Mar12.16:016:05
Apr11.85:595:48
May11.66:025:38
Jun11.56:095:38
Jul11.56:135:45
Aug11.76:065:49
Sep11.95:495:46
Oct12.25:325:44
Nov12.45:265:51
Dec12.55:346:05

Sunny days

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

Ende averages about 7 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 14 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 6.8 months, from around Apr 24 to Nov 15. The sunniest month is September, with roughly 14 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is January, down near 1 sunny days — about 95% fewer than the September peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightSep 1214 daysJan 270 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan1Gloomy
Feb0Gloomy
Mar2Gloomy
Apr5Gloomy
May8Mixed
Jun8Mixed
Jul10Mixed
Aug12Mixed
Sep13Mixed
Oct12Mixed
Nov7Gloomy
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.

Ende 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 August, the mildest month, the air is dry or comfortable only 1% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecmuggyoppressivehumid
Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan000991
Feb000973
Mar001954
Apr008901
May0133632
Jun0754390
Jul01867150
Aug1286570
Sep01367190
Oct0141580
Nov006913
Dec000946

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 Ende is steady company: average speeds sit near 5 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmJul 22 · 6 km/hDec 3 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan4calm
Feb5calm
Mar4calm
Apr4calm
May5calm
Jun6calm
Jul6calm
Aug6calm
Sep6calm
Oct5calm
Nov4calm
Dec4calm

Hazard calendar for Ende

In seasonPeak

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

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

Ende's monsoon runs November–April, 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 Ende

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late September, Ende 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 Ende for general outdoor tourist activities is from late May to late September, with a peak score in the last week of July.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 29 · 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
Jan2.8poor
Feb2.8poor
Mar3.1poor
Apr3.6fair
May4.7fair
Jun5.5fair
Jul6.0good
Aug6.0good
Sep5.4fair
Oct4.3fair
Nov3.2poor
Dec2.8poor

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 Ende for hot-weather activities is from late May to mid October, with a peak score in the third week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 17 · 8.2

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 Ende, 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.

Ende packs about the same all year — highs hold near 31°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 October, Ende sees daytime highs around 31°C and nights near 24°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. Worth having: rain gear. About 11 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Ende

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 December at about 30°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°32°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan29Tropical
Feb29Tropical
Mar29Tropical
Apr29Tropical
May28Tropical
Jun27Warm
Jul27Warm
Aug26Warm
Sep27Warm
Oct28Tropical
Nov29Tropical
Dec30Tropical

UV index (midday) in Ende 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 Ende peaks around March 11 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near July 10 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 11UV 15Jul 10UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan13Extreme
Feb15Extreme
Mar15Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May11Extreme
Jun10Very high
Jul10Very high
Aug12Extreme
Sep14Extreme
Oct13Extreme
Nov12Extreme
Dec13Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Ende

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
Jun75
Jul75
Aug7.56
Sep86.5
Oct86
Nov86
Dec86.5
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Ende 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. Ende banks about 6,030 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)
Jan513
Feb458
Mar511
Apr502
May517
Jun476
Jul478
Aug486
Sep496
Oct540
Nov527
Dec526

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.

Ende receives about 5.7 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.9 and 6.8 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 3.8 months, from around Aug 10 to Dec 3. The brightest month is October, averaging about 6.7 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is June, down near 4.9 kWh/m² — roughly 27% less than the October peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseOct 186.8 kWhJun 194.9 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.4Bright
Feb5.4Bright
Mar5.6Bright
Apr5.5Bright
May5.2Bright
Jun4.9Bright
Jul5.1Bright
Aug5.8Bright
Sep6.5Intense
Oct6.8Intense
Nov6.3Intense
Dec5.4Bright

Where is Ende?

Ende sits at 8.8°S, 121.7°E, 31 m above sea level, in Indonesia. The nearest listed city is Maumere, 65 km away.

Soe

Topography around Ende

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Ende has large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 714 m around an average of 82 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,623 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,150 m.

The land around Ende is covered by trees (52%), water (26%) and artificial surfaces (20%) within 3 km, trees (50%) and water (48%) within 16 km, and water (65%) and trees (30%) within 80 km.

3 km
714 m
16 km
1,623 m
80 km
2,150 m
treesgrasslandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Maumere 65 km · Ruteng 134 km · Waingapu 178 km · Labuan Bajo 199 km · Lewoleba 200 km · Kupang 259 km · Tambolaka 274 km · Soe 309 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 Ende (-8.8432°, 121.6623°, elevation 31 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. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).