Climate and average weather in Pariaman

In Pariaman, 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: early May to late October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Pariaman typically varies from 24°C to 29°C, and is rarely below 23°C or above 30°C. May is the hottest month of the year, while October is the coldest.

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

Hottest
May
29°
Coldest
Oct
24°
Wettest
Nov
589 mm
Driest
Jun
236 mm
Rain / yr
4598 mm
297 wet days
Daylight
12.0–12.0 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
4 m
0.6°S
Clearest
Jun
76% cloud

Pariaman 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 late October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Pariaman stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is May, with an average high of 29°C and low of 25°C; the coolest is October, with an average low of 24°C and high of 27°C.

Days typically run about 4°C warmer than nights year-round.

20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2824
Feb2924
Mar2924
Apr2825
May2925
Jun2924
Jul2824
Aug2824
Sep2824
Oct2724
Nov2724
Dec2824

How hot and cold Pariaman 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, Pariaman feels like about 32°C (around May 18). About 51 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in May.

20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan31282424
Feb32292424
Mar32292424
Apr32282425
May32292525
Jun32292424
Jul31282424
Aug31282424
Sep30282424
Oct30272424
Nov30272424
Dec30282424

Average hourly temperature in Pariaman

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 May afternoons, near 29°C, and coldest before dawn in October, near 24°C.

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

Pariaman 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
Jan28° / 24°35625123.6
Feb29° / 24°30321.9123.7
Mar29° / 24°35126.6123.4
Apr28° / 25°41327123.2
May29° / 25°33722.7123.8
Jun29° / 24°23619.7124.2
Jul28° / 24°29121.4124.3
Aug28° / 24°38224.6124.1
Sep28° / 24°40625.1123.8
Oct27° / 24°48127.8123.6
Nov27° / 24°58928123.4
Dec28° / 24°45327.4123.6

Chance of rain

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

Pariaman gets about 4598 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 5.0 months, from around Aug 21 to Jan 18, peaking in November at about 95% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jun 21.

November is the wettest month by volume, with 589 mm over about 28 wet days; June is the driest, with 236 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetNov 20 · 95%Jun 21 · 63%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan8125
Feb7822
Mar8627
Apr9027
May7423
Jun6620
Jul6921
Aug7925
Sep8425
Oct8928
Nov9428
Dec8827

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Pariaman collects about 4598 mm of rain across 297 wet days — roughly 383 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. November is the wettest month with 589 mm, while June is the driest at just 236 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 33% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400450500550600650700JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec356303351413337236291382406481589453
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan35625
Feb30322
Mar35127
Apr41327
May33723
Jun23620
Jul29121
Aug38225
Sep40625
Oct48128
Nov58928
Dec45327

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Pariaman, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows moderate seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around May 7 and lasts for 3.4 months, ending around August 17. The clearest month is June, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 24% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around August 18 and lasts for 5.5 months, ending around January 30. The cloudiest month is November, 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 23 · 26%Nov 18 · 1%partly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan991
Feb1387
Mar991
Apr793
May1585
Jun2476
Jul2377
Aug1387
Sep892
Oct397
Nov298
Dec496

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, Pariaman barely changes through the year: days stay near 12 hours of light in every season.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan12.06:286:30
Feb12.06:346:35
Mar12.06:296:29
Apr12.06:206:19
May12.06:176:15
Jun12.06:216:19
Jul12.06:266:24
Aug12.06:246:23
Sep12.06:146:14
Oct12.06:046:05
Nov12.06:046:06
Dec12.06:156:17

Sunny days

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

Pariaman 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 3 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.3 months, from around May 4 to Aug 12. The sunniest month is June, with roughly 3 sunny days (gloomy).

The greyest month is September, down near 0 sunny days — about 89% fewer than the June peak.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedJun 133 daysSep 300 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan1Gloomy
Feb1Gloomy
Mar1Gloomy
Apr1Gloomy
May2Gloomy
Jun3Gloomy
Jul3Gloomy
Aug1Gloomy
Sep0Gloomy
Oct0Gloomy
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.

Pariaman 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 (%)
Jan3944
Feb3916
Mar2899
Apr08317
May18118
Jun2907
Jul4951
Aug2980
Sep2970
Oct2980
Nov1990
Dec2981

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 Pariaman is steady company: average speeds sit near 6 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmNov 29 · 6 km/hApr 23 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb6calm
Mar6calm
Apr5calm
May5calm
Jun6calm
Jul6calm
Aug6calm
Sep6calm
Oct6calm
Nov6calm
Dec6calm

Best time to visit Pariaman

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid October, Pariaman 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 Pariaman for general outdoor tourist activities run from early May to late October and again from mid December to early March, with a peak score in the last week of July.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 24 · 4.4

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
Jan3.6fair
Feb3.7fair
Mar3.4poor
Apr3.2poor
May3.8fair
Jun4.2fair
Jul4.3fair
Aug4.1fair
Sep3.8fair
Oct3.6fair
Nov3.4poor
Dec3.6fair

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Pariaman for hot-weather activities run from early January to mid March and again from early May to late August, with a peak score in the third week of June.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 21 · 5.3

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 Pariaman, 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.

Pariaman packs about the same all year — highs hold near 29°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 May, Pariaman sees daytime highs around 29°C and nights near 25°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 23 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Pariaman

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 May at about 30°C and coldest in October near 29°C.

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

28°30°32°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan29Tropical
Feb30Tropical
Mar30Tropical
Apr30Tropical
May30Tropical
Jun30Tropical
Jul30Tropical
Aug30Tropical
Sep29Tropical
Oct29Tropical
Nov29Tropical
Dec29Tropical

UV index (midday) in Pariaman 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 Pariaman peaks around February 18 at about 14 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near July 20 at about 10 (extreme).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeFeb 18UV 14Jul 20UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan13Extreme
Feb14Extreme
Mar14Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May11Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul10Extreme
Aug11Extreme
Sep14Extreme
Oct14Extreme
Nov12Extreme
Dec12Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Pariaman

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)
Jan86.5
Feb86.5
Mar86.5
Apr86
May7.55.5
Jun7.55.5
Jul7.55.5
Aug7.55.5
Sep86.5
Oct86.5
Nov86
Dec86

Air quality in Pariaman 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 Pariaman is worst in October — around 19 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 1.7× the cleanest month (December, 11 µg/m³).

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

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateGoodOct 1218 µg/m³Dec 1311 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan13Moderate
Feb14Moderate
Mar13Moderate
Apr12Moderate
May13Moderate
Jun12Moderate
Jul13Moderate
Aug13Moderate
Sep17Moderate
Oct19Moderate
Nov12Good
Dec11Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Pariaman 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. Pariaman banks about 5,873 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)
Jan502
Feb460
Mar510
Apr494
May516
Jun494
Jul496
Aug489
Sep470
Oct483
Nov469
Dec491

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.

Pariaman receives about 5.0 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 4.3 and 5.5 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseFeb 195.5 kWhNov 214.3 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.1Bright
Feb5.5Bright
Mar5.3Bright
Apr5.0Bright
May5.1Bright
Jun5.1Bright
Jul5.0Bright
Aug5.1Bright
Sep5.2Bright
Oct4.8Bright
Nov4.4Bright
Dec4.5Bright

Where is Pariaman?

Pariaman sits at 0.6°S, 100.1°E, 4 m above sea level, in Indonesia. The nearest listed city is Padangpanjang, 37 km away.

Topography around Pariaman

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Pariaman has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 40 m around an average of 5 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 241 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,877 m.

The land around Pariaman is covered by water (41%) and trees (28%) within 3 km, water (51%) and trees (39%) within 16 km, and trees (54%) and water (40%) within 80 km.

3 km
40 m
16 km
241 m
80 km
2,877 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Padangpanjang 37 km · Bukittinggi 44 km · Padang 45 km · Solok 63 km · Payakumbuh 73 km · Sijunjung 96 km · Pekanbaru 194 km · Sungai Penuh 213 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 Pariaman (-0.619°, 100.12°, elevation 4 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. 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).