Climate and average weather in Lahat

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

Best: mid May to late September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Lahat typically varies from 22°C to 32°C, and is rarely below 21°C or above 36°C. September is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Lahat for warm-weather activities is from mid May to late September.

Hottest
Sep
32°
Coldest
Jan
23°
Wettest
Dec
301 mm
Driest
Aug
73 mm
Rain / yr
2364 mm
262 wet days
Daylight
11.8–12.2 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
115 m
3.8°S
Clearest
Aug
66% cloud

Lahat is capital of Lahat Regency, South Sumatra Province, Indonesia.

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

Lahat 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 mid May to late September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Lahat stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is September, with an average high of 32°C and low of 23°C; the coolest is January, with an average low of 23°C and high of 29°C.

Days typically run about 8°C warmer than nights year-round.

20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2923
Feb3023
Mar3023
Apr3023
May3123
Jun3122
Jul3122
Aug3223
Sep3223
Oct3223
Nov3123
Dec3023

How hot and cold Lahat 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, Lahat feels like about 35°C (around September 27). Nearly every day a year carries some heat stress, peaking in September.

20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan33292323
Feb33302323
Mar34302323
Apr35302323
May35312323
Jun34312222
Jul34312222
Aug35322323
Sep35322323
Oct35322323
Nov34312323
Dec33302323

Average hourly temperature in Lahat

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 September afternoons, near 32°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 23°C.

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

Lahat 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° / 23°27428.712.22.9
Feb30° / 23°25425.812.12.9
Mar30° / 23°27728122.8
Apr30° / 23°26527.611.92.6
May31° / 23°15622.711.83.2
Jun31° / 22°9216.411.83.9
Jul31° / 22°9014.711.84.0
Aug32° / 23°7312.311.93.7
Sep32° / 23°9712.3123.5
Oct32° / 23°19519.512.13.0
Nov31° / 23°29126.412.22.7
Dec30° / 23°30127.812.22.8

Chance of rain

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

Lahat gets about 2364 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 26 to May 17, peaking in April at about 94% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Aug 11.

December is the wettest month by volume, with 301 mm over about 28 wet days; August is the driest, with 73 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetApr 11 · 94%Aug 11 · 36%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan9229
Feb9226
Mar9128
Apr9228
May7423
Jun5516
Jul4715
Aug3912
Sep4312
Oct6220
Nov8726
Dec9128

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Lahat collects about 2364 mm of rain across 262 wet days — roughly 197 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. December is the wettest month with 301 mm, while August is the driest at just 73 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 37% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec27425427726515692907397195291301
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan27429
Feb25426
Mar27728
Apr26528
May15623
Jun9216
Jul9015
Aug7312
Sep9712
Oct19520
Nov29126
Dec30128

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Lahat, 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 4 and lasts for 5.5 months, ending around October 18. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 39% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 19 and lasts for 6.5 months, ending around May 3. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 98% 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 25 · 42%Dec 12 · 2%mostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan397
Feb496
Mar793
Apr1288
May2773
Jun3862
Jul3961
Aug3961
Sep3070
Oct2080
Nov892
Dec298

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, Lahat 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)
Jan12.26:096:21
Feb12.16:176:24
Mar12.06:156:16
Apr11.96:096:04
May11.86:075:57
Jun11.86:136:00
Jul11.86:176:05
Aug11.96:146:06
Sep12.06:016:00
Oct12.15:485:53
Nov12.25:465:56
Dec12.25:556:09

Sunny days

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

Lahat 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 7 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.4 months, from around May 8 to Oct 19. The sunniest month is June, with roughly 5 sunny days (gloomy).

The greyest month is January, down near 0 sunny days — about 100% fewer than the June peak.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedJun 257 daysJan 10 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan0Gloomy
Feb0Gloomy
Mar0Gloomy
Apr1Gloomy
May3Gloomy
Jun5Gloomy
Jul5Gloomy
Aug6Gloomy
Sep4Gloomy
Oct3Gloomy
Nov1Gloomy
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.

Lahat 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 October, the mildest month, the air is dry or comfortable only 3% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecmiserableoppressivemuggyhumid
Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan002972
Feb001963
Mar001926
Apr0008812
May0008911
Jun016921
Jul0424720
Aug0840520
Sep11435500
Oct31218680
Nov016912
Dec001972

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 Lahat 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 · 6 km/hApr 19 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan5calm
Feb5calm
Mar4calm
Apr4calm
May4calm
Jun4calm
Jul5calm
Aug5calm
Sep5calm
Oct5calm
Nov4calm
Dec5calm

Best time to visit Lahat

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 24 · 4.1

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
Feb2.9poor
Mar2.8poor
Apr2.6poor
May3.2poor
Jun3.9fair
Jul4.0fair
Aug3.7fair
Sep3.5poor
Oct3.0poor
Nov2.7poor
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 Lahat for hot-weather activities is from late May to mid October, with a peak score in the second week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 8 · 6.1

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 Lahat, 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.

Lahat 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 September, Lahat sees daytime highs around 32°C and nights near 23°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: rain gear and sun protection. About 12 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Lahat 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 Lahat peaks around February 19 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near July 14 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 highExtremeFeb 19UV 15Jul 14UV 9
UV index (midday)Level
Jan14Extreme
Feb15Extreme
Mar15Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May11Extreme
Jun10Extreme
Jul9Very high
Aug12Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct14Extreme
Nov10Extreme
Dec12Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Lahat

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 8.5 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
Jul75
Aug7.55.5
Sep86
Oct86
Nov7.55.5
Dec86

Air quality in Lahat 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 Lahat is worst in October — around 44 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 2.2× the cleanest month (December, 20 µg/m³).

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorModerateOct 1143 µg/m³Dec 2320 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan20Moderate
Feb23Moderate
Mar25Moderate
Apr23Moderate
May24Moderate
Jun25Moderate
Jul27Moderate
Aug31Moderate
Sep41Poor
Oct44Poor
Nov28Moderate
Dec20Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Lahat 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. Lahat banks about 6,090 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around September.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan494
Feb449
Mar508
Apr499
May519
Jun494
Jul516
Aug538
Sep527
Oct544
Nov502
Dec501

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.

Lahat receives about 5.0 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 4.4 and 5.9 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseSep 205.9 kWhDec 214.4 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.5Bright
Feb4.8Bright
Mar5.0Bright
Apr5.0Bright
May5.0Bright
Jun4.9Bright
Jul5.0Bright
Aug5.5Bright
Sep5.9Bright
Oct5.6Bright
Nov4.9Bright
Dec4.5Bright

Where is Lahat?

Lahat sits at 3.8°S, 103.5°E, 115 m above sea level, in Indonesia. The nearest listed city is Tanjungagung, 34 km away.

Topography around Lahat

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Lahat has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 110 m around an average of 122 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 802 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,183 m.

The land around Lahat is covered by trees (64%) and artificial surfaces (26%) within 3 km, trees (93%) within 16 km, and trees (97%) within 80 km.

3 km
110 m
16 km
802 m
80 km
3,183 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Tanjungagung 34 km · Pagar Alam 42 km · Baturaja 79 km · Prabumulih 86 km · Lubuklinggau 93 km · Curup 119 km · Indralaya 139 km · Bengkulu 142 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 Lahat (-3.7851°, 103.5428°, elevation 115 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).