Climate and average weather in Jambi City

In Jambi City, the weather is muggy, hot, wet, and mostly cloudy and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near hot levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around November.

Best: late May to early October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Jambi City typically varies from 24°C to 32°C, and is rarely below 23°C or above 34°C. August is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Jambi City for warm-weather activities are from early January to mid February and late May to early October.

Hottest
Aug
32°
Coldest
Jan
24°
Wettest
Nov
296 mm
Driest
Aug
115 mm
Rain / yr
2491 mm
285 wet days
Daylight
11.9–12.1 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
21 m
1.6°S
Clearest
Jul
73% cloud

Jambi City is city in Jambi Province, Indonesia.

Density
3,092/km²
people per km²
Founded
1401

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

Jambi City 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 Jambi City, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

Temperatures in Jambi City stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is August, with an average high of 32°C and low of 24°C; the coolest is January, with an average low of 24°C and high of 30°C.

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

20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3024
Feb3124
Mar3124
Apr3124
May3124
Jun3124
Jul3124
Aug3224
Sep3224
Oct3224
Nov3124
Dec3024

How hot and cold Jambi City 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, Jambi City feels like about 40°C (around April 26). Nearly every day a year carries some heat stress, and 65 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in April.

20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan35302424
Feb36312424
Mar38312424
Apr39312424
May40312424
Jun38312424
Jul37312424
Aug37322424
Sep37322424
Oct38322424
Nov38312424
Dec36302424

Average hourly temperature in Jambi City

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 August afternoons, near 32°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 24°C.

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

Jambi City 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° / 24°24026.112.12.9
Feb31° / 24°19622.712.12.9
Mar31° / 24°27228.3122.5
Apr31° / 24°27628.6122.3
May31° / 24°19725.411.92.6
Jun31° / 24°12119.111.93.2
Jul31° / 24°12018.411.93.4
Aug32° / 24°11517.511.93.3
Sep32° / 24°13617.2123.1
Oct32° / 24°23424.7122.7
Nov31° / 24°29628.512.12.4
Dec30° / 24°28928.312.12.6

Chance of rain

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

Jambi City gets about 2491 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 7.2 months, from around Oct 14 to May 19, peaking in April at about 96% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Aug 3.

November is the wettest month by volume, with 296 mm over about 29 wet days; August is the driest, with 115 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetApr 4 · 96%Aug 3 · 51%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan8426
Feb8223
Mar9128
Apr9529
May8225
Jun6419
Jul5918
Aug5618
Sep5917
Oct7925
Nov9529
Dec9128

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Jambi City collects about 2491 mm of rain across 285 wet days — roughly 208 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. November is the wettest month with 296 mm, while August is the driest at just 115 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 35% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec240196272276197121120115136234296289
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan24026
Feb19623
Mar27228
Apr27629
May19725
Jun12119
Jul12018
Aug11518
Sep13617
Oct23425
Nov29629
Dec28928

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Jambi City, 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 12 and lasts for 5.0 months, ending around October 11. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 29% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 12 and lasts for 7.0 months, ending around May 11. 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 24 · 31%Dec 12 · 1%mostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan397
Feb694
Mar694
Apr694
May1585
Jun2773
Jul2971
Aug2872
Sep2179
Oct1189
Nov397
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, Jambi City barely changes through the year: days stay near 12 h 06 min of light in every season.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan12.16:126:17
Feb12.16:196:22
Mar12.06:156:16
Apr12.06:076:05
May11.96:046:00
Jun11.96:096:03
Jul11.96:146:09
Aug11.96:116:08
Sep12.06:006:00
Oct12.05:495:52
Nov12.15:495:53
Dec12.15:596:04

Sunny days

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

Jambi City 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 5 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.6 months, from around May 12 to Sep 28. The sunniest month is June, with roughly 4 sunny days (gloomy).

The greyest month is January, down near 0 sunny days — about 97% fewer than the June peak.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedJun 195 daysJan 240 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan0Gloomy
Feb0Gloomy
Mar0Gloomy
Apr0Gloomy
May2Gloomy
Jun4Gloomy
Jul3Gloomy
Aug3Gloomy
Sep2Gloomy
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.

Jambi City 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 (%)
Jan06238
Feb05941
Mar02773
Apr0496
May0496
Jun02575
Jul15643
Aug56530
Sep66133
Oct24058
Nov02575
Dec03961

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

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmJan 27 · 7 km/hApr 13 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb7calm
Mar5calm
Apr4calm
May5calm
Jun5calm
Jul6calm
Aug6calm
Sep5calm
Oct5calm
Nov5calm
Dec6calm

Best time to visit Jambi City

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late September, Jambi City 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 times of year to visit Jambi City for general outdoor tourist activities run from early January to late February and again from late May to early October, with a peak score in the last week of July.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 29 · 3.5

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
Jan2.9poor
Feb2.8poor
Mar2.5poor
Apr2.3poor
May2.6poor
Jun3.2poor
Jul3.4poor
Aug3.3poor
Sep3.1poor
Oct2.7poor
Nov2.4poor
Dec2.6poor

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

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 1 · 5.4

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 Jambi City, 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.

Jambi City packs about the same all year — highs hold near 32°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 August, Jambi City sees daytime highs around 32°C and nights near 24°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 18 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Jambi City 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 Jambi City peaks around February 19 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near July 11 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 highExtremeFeb 19UV 15Jul 11UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan13Extreme
Feb15Extreme
Mar14Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May11Extreme
Jun10Very high
Jul10Very high
Aug12Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct14Extreme
Nov11Extreme
Dec12Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Jambi City

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
Mar8.56.5
Apr86
May7.55.5
Jun7.55
Jul7.55
Aug7.56
Sep86
Oct86
Nov7.55.5
Dec86

Air quality in Jambi City 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 Jambi City is worst in September — around 89 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 5.2× the cleanest month (December, 17 µg/m³).

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

0306090JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorUnhealthyModerateSep 1886 µg/m³Dec 2217 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan18Moderate
Feb21Moderate
Mar22Moderate
Apr21Moderate
May21Moderate
Jun23Moderate
Jul31Moderate
Aug53Poor
Sep89Unhealthy
Oct69Unhealthy
Nov22Moderate
Dec17Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Jambi City 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. Jambi City banks about 6,377 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)
Jan520
Feb478
Mar541
Apr531
May555
Jun531
Jul542
Aug552
Sep535
Oct548
Nov520
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.

Jambi City receives about 4.7 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 4.0 and 5.3 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

0123456JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightSep 175.3 kWhDec 154.0 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.3Bright
Feb4.7Bright
Mar4.7Bright
Apr4.6Bright
May4.6Bright
Jun4.6Bright
Jul4.8Bright
Aug5.1Bright
Sep5.3Bright
Oct4.9Bright
Nov4.2Bright
Dec4.0Bright

Where is Jambi City?

Jambi City sits at 1.6°S, 103.6°E, 21 m above sea level, in Indonesia. The nearest listed city is Mendaha, 65 km away.

Topography around Jambi City

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Jambi City has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 35 m around an average of 17 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 77 m; within 80 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 190 m.

The land around Jambi City is covered by artificial surfaces (61%) and trees (27%) within 3 km, trees (77%) within 16 km, and trees (90%) within 80 km.

3 km
35 m
16 km
77 m
80 km
190 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Mendaha 65 km · Simpang 65 km · Kuala Tungkal 89 km · Muara Bungo 167 km · Muntok 179 km · Palembang 193 km · Lubuklinggau 206 km · Prabumulih 215 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 Jambi City (-1.6°, 103.6167°, elevation 21 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).