Climate and average weather in Parepare

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

Best: early June to mid September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Parepare typically varies from 24°C to 33°C, and is rarely below 23°C or above 35°C. October is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Parepare for warm-weather activities is from early June to mid September.

Hottest
Oct
33°
Coldest
Jan
25°
Wettest
Dec
312 mm
Driest
Aug
22 mm
Rain / yr
2021 mm
218 wet days
Daylight
11.8–12.2 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
22 m
4.0°S
Clearest
Aug
51% cloud

Parepare 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 June to mid September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Parepare stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is October, with an average high of 33°C and low of 25°C; the coolest is January, with an average low of 25°C and high of 30°C.

Days typically run about 7°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 9°C) in September.

20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3025
Feb3025
Mar3024
Apr3125
May3125
Jun3024
Jul3024
Aug3224
Sep3324
Oct3325
Nov3225
Dec3025

How hot and cold Parepare 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, Parepare feels like about 38°C (around November 10). Nearly every day a year carries 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)
Jan35302425
Feb35302525
Mar36302424
Apr37312525
May36312525
Jun34302424
Jul34302424
Aug34322424
Sep36332424
Oct37332525
Nov37322525
Dec36302525

Average hourly temperature in Parepare

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 33°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 25°C.

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

Parepare 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°28127.812.22.8
Feb30° / 25°22624.612.12.8
Mar30° / 24°25827.4122.8
Apr31° / 25°24525.311.92.8
May31° / 25°15717.911.83.7
Jun30° / 24°10213.211.84.3
Jul30° / 24°558.611.84.9
Aug32° / 24°224.411.94.8
Sep33° / 24°375.3123.9
Oct33° / 25°11311.812.13.2
Nov32° / 25°21422.812.22.7
Dec30° / 25°31228.912.22.6

Chance of rain

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

Parepare gets about 2021 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 6.2 months, from around Nov 4 to May 12, peaking in December at about 95% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Aug 18.

December is the wettest month by volume, with 312 mm over about 29 wet days; August is the driest, with 22 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetDec 24 · 95%Aug 18 · 13%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan9028
Feb8725
Mar8927
Apr8325
May5818
Jun4513
Jul289
Aug154
Sep185
Oct3812
Nov7523
Dec9329

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Parepare collects about 2021 mm of rain across 218 wet days — roughly 168 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. December is the wettest month with 312 mm, while August is the driest at just 22 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 42% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec281226258245157102552237113214312
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan28128
Feb22625
Mar25827
Apr24525
May15718
Jun10213
Jul559
Aug224
Sep375
Oct11312
Nov21423
Dec31229

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Parepare, 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 11 and lasts for 5.8 months, ending around November 4. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 59% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around November 5 and lasts for 6.1 months, ending around May 10. The cloudiest month is February, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 97% 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 31 · 61%Feb 1 · 2%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan397
Feb397
Mar793
Apr1486
May3070
Jun3862
Jul4951
Aug5941
Sep5743
Oct4159
Nov1981
Dec595

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, Parepare 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)
Jan12.26:056:17
Feb12.16:126:20
Mar12.06:106:12
Apr11.96:045:59
May11.86:035:52
Jun11.86:095:55
Jul11.86:136:01
Aug11.96:106:02
Sep12.05:565:55
Oct12.15:445:49
Nov12.25:415:52
Dec12.25:516:05

Sunny days

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

Parepare averages about 4 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 12 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.9 months, from around May 13 to Nov 7. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 11 sunny days (mixed).

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

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedAug 2012 daysFeb 10 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan0Gloomy
Feb0Gloomy
Mar0Gloomy
Apr1Gloomy
May5Gloomy
Jun5Gloomy
Jul8Mixed
Aug12Mixed
Sep11Mixed
Oct8Gloomy
Nov3Gloomy
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.

Parepare 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecmiserableoppressivemuggyhumid
Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan005050
Feb005050
Mar004456
Apr004060
May005842
Jun057916
Jul128692
Aug852401
Sep1350343
Oct9295112
Nov175438
Dec004357

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 Parepare is typically calm, near 8 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 4.5 months, from around May 20 to Oct 3. The windiest month is August, averaging about 12 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Oct 4 to May 19, with November the calmest month at about 5 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeAug 14 · 12 km/hNov 11 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan8calm
Feb8calm
Mar6calm
Apr6calm
May8calm
Jun10calm
Jul12calm
Aug12light breeze
Sep10calm
Oct7calm
Nov5calm
Dec7calm

Hazard calendar for Parepare

In seasonPeak

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

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

Parepare's rainy season runs November–May, when most of the year's rain falls.

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

Best time to visit Parepare

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid June, Parepare 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 Parepare for general outdoor tourist activities is from early June to mid September, with a peak score in the last week of July.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 26 · 5.1

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
Jan2.8poor
Feb2.8poor
Mar2.8poor
Apr2.9poor
May3.7fair
Jun4.3fair
Jul4.9fair
Aug4.7fair
Sep3.9fair
Oct3.2poor
Nov2.7poor
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 Parepare for hot-weather activities is from mid June to mid October, with a peak score in the third week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 15 · 7.4

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 Parepare, 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.

Parepare packs about the same all year — highs hold near 33°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, Parepare sees daytime highs around 33°C and nights near 25°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. Worth having: rain gear. About 12 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Parepare

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 April at about 30°C and coldest in August 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
Jun29Tropical
Jul28Tropical
Aug28Tropical
Sep29Tropical
Oct29Tropical
Nov30Tropical
Dec30Tropical

UV index (midday) in Parepare 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 Parepare peaks around March 16 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near June 21 at about 10 (extreme).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeMar 16UV 15Jun 21UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan15Extreme
Feb14Extreme
Mar15Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun10Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct14Extreme
Nov13Extreme
Dec13Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Parepare

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
Apr86.5
May86
Jun7.55.5
Jul7.55.5
Aug86
Sep86
Oct8.56.5
Nov86.5
Dec86.5

Air quality in Parepare 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 Parepare is worst in October — around 17 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

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

01020JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodModerateOct 2016 µg/m³Feb 1211 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan12Good
Feb11Good
Mar12Moderate
Apr12Moderate
May12Good
Jun11Good
Jul11Good
Aug12Good
Sep14Moderate
Oct17Moderate
Nov15Moderate
Dec12Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Parepare 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. Parepare banks about 6,462 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around October.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan531
Feb483
Mar538
Apr528
May547
Jun517
Jul531
Aug553
Sep560
Oct589
Nov550
Dec536

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.

Parepare receives about 5.4 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.7 and 6.5 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 3.9 months, from around Jul 30 to Nov 24. The brightest month is September, averaging about 6.4 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is June, down near 4.7 kWh/m² — roughly 26% less than the September peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseSep 266.5 kWhJun 144.7 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.0Bright
Feb5.2Bright
Mar5.3Bright
Apr5.1Bright
May4.9Bright
Jun4.7Bright
Jul5.0Bright
Aug5.8Bright
Sep6.4Intense
Oct6.4Intense
Nov5.7Bright
Dec4.8Bright

Where is Parepare?

Parepare sits at 4.0°S, 119.6°E, 22 m above sea level, in Indonesia. The nearest listed city is Sengkang, 47 km away.

Topography around Parepare

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Parepare has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 87 m around an average of 21 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 803 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,298 m.

The land around Parepare is covered by water (46%), trees (28%) and artificial surfaces (23%) within 3 km, trees (44%) and water (39%) within 16 km, and trees (40%) and water (40%) within 80 km.

3 km
87 m
16 km
803 m
80 km
3,298 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswaterwetland
Nearby: Sengkang 47 km · Polewali 72 km · Majene 90 km · Watampone 97 km · Maros 111 km · Rantepao 120 km · Makassar 128 km · Palopo 130 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 Parepare (-4.0135°, 119.6255°, elevation 22 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).