Climate and average weather in Serang

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

Best: mid June to late September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Serang typically varies from 25°C to 31°C, and is rarely below 24°C or above 32°C. May is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

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

Hottest
May
31°
Coldest
Jan
25°
Wettest
Jan
277 mm
Driest
Aug
50 mm
Rain / yr
1944 mm
262 wet days
Daylight
11.6–12.4 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
29 m
6.1°S
Clearest
Aug
55% cloud

Serang is city in Banten Province, Indonesia.

Density
2,755/km²
people per km²
Founded
2007

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

Serang 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 June to late September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Serang stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is May, with an average high of 31°C and low of 26°C; the coolest is January, with an average low of 25°C and high of 29°C.

Days typically run about 5°C warmer than nights year-round.

20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2925
Feb3025
Mar3026
Apr3126
May3126
Jun3025
Jul3025
Aug3025
Sep3125
Oct3126
Nov3026
Dec3026

How hot and cold Serang 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, Serang feels like about 38°C (around May 14). Nearly every day a year carries some heat stress, peaking in May.

20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan35292525
Feb36302525
Mar37302626
Apr38312626
May38312626
Jun37302525
Jul35302525
Aug35302525
Sep35312525
Oct37312626
Nov37302626
Dec36302526

Average hourly temperature in Serang

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 31°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 25°C.

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

Serang 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° / 25°27728.312.32.9
Feb30° / 25°25526.312.22.8
Mar30° / 26°23627.5122.8
Apr31° / 26°19025.511.92.9
May31° / 26°13321.611.73.4
Jun30° / 25°10017.611.73.9
Jul30° / 25°731511.74.5
Aug30° / 25°5012.811.84.7
Sep31° / 25°6214.2124.2
Oct31° / 26°11920.712.13.4
Nov30° / 26°19225.812.32.9
Dec30° / 26°25626.312.33.0

Chance of rain

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

Serang gets about 1944 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 23 to May 13, peaking in January at about 96% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Aug 9.

January is the wettest month by volume, with 277 mm over about 28 wet days; August is the driest, with 50 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJan 30 · 96%Aug 9 · 40%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan9128
Feb9426
Mar8928
Apr8526
May7022
Jun5818
Jul4815
Aug4113
Sep4814
Oct6621
Nov8626
Dec8526

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Serang collects about 1944 mm of rain across 262 wet days — roughly 162 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. January is the wettest month with 277 mm, while August is the driest at just 50 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 41% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec277255236190133100735062119192256
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan27728
Feb25526
Mar23628
Apr19026
May13322
Jun10018
Jul7315
Aug5013
Sep6214
Oct11921
Nov19226
Dec25626

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Serang, 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 5 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 59% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 19 and lasts for 6.5 months, ending around May 4. 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 2 · 61%Feb 4 · 6%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan1189
Feb892
Mar1585
Apr2278
May4060
Jun5248
Jul5644
Aug5941
Sep4852
Oct3268
Nov1684
Dec991

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 December 13, brings about 12 h 24 min of light; the shortest, around June 14, only 11 h 36 min — a swing of roughly 0 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan12.35:556:14
Feb12.26:046:16
Mar12.06:046:06
Apr11.96:005:52
May11.76:005:43
Jun11.76:065:45
Jul11.76:115:51
Aug11.86:065:53
Sep12.05:515:49
Oct12.15:365:45
Nov12.35:325:49
Dec12.35:416:02

Sunny days

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

Serang averages about 5 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 11 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.5 months, from around May 6 to Oct 18. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 9 sunny days (mixed).

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

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedJul 3011 daysFeb 40 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan1Gloomy
Feb0Gloomy
Mar1Gloomy
Apr2Gloomy
May7Gloomy
Jun9Mixed
Jul10Mixed
Aug10Mixed
Sep7Gloomy
Oct5Gloomy
Nov2Gloomy
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.

Serang 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
Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan3466
Feb2674
Mar1387
Apr496
May694
Jun2377
Jul5842
Aug7426
Sep6931
Oct4654
Nov2872
Dec2971

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 Serang is typically calm, near 7 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.0 months, from around Nov 13 to Apr 13. The windiest month is December, averaging about 10 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Apr 14 to Nov 12, with May the calmest month at about 6 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeDec 24 · 10 km/hMay 19 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan9calm
Feb8calm
Mar8calm
Apr7calm
May6calm
Jun6calm
Jul6calm
Aug6calm
Sep6calm
Oct7calm
Nov8calm
Dec10calm

Hazard calendar for Serang

In seasonPeak

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

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

Serang'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 Serang

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late September, Serang 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 Serang for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid June to late September, with a peak score in the first week of August.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 5 · 4.8

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
Mar2.8poor
Apr2.9poor
May3.4poor
Jun3.9fair
Jul4.5fair
Aug4.7fair
Sep4.2fair
Oct3.4poor
Nov2.9poor
Dec3.0poor

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 Serang 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 6 · 6.5

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 Serang, 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.

Serang 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 May, Serang sees daytime highs around 31°C and nights near 26°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 22 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Serang

Average ocean temperature at the nearest coast, month by month, banded into swim-comfort zones — the other half of the beach question.

The sea at the nearest coast (about 27 km away) is warmest in May at about 30°C and coldest in January 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
Feb29Tropical
Mar29Tropical
Apr30Tropical
May30Tropical
Jun30Tropical
Jul29Tropical
Aug29Tropical
Sep29Tropical
Oct29Tropical
Nov30Tropical
Dec29Tropical

UV index (midday) in Serang 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 Serang peaks around March 14 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near November 16 at about 7 (high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highExtremeVery highMar 14UV 15Nov 16UV 7
UV index (midday)Level
Jan13Extreme
Feb13Extreme
Mar15Extreme
Apr11Extreme
May9Very high
Jun8Very high
Jul9Very high
Aug10Very high
Sep9Very high
Oct11Extreme
Nov6High
Dec12Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Serang

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)
Jan86.5
Feb86.5
Mar8.56.5
Apr7.55.5
May74.5
Jun6.54
Jul74.5
Aug7.55
Sep75
Oct7.55.5
Nov6.52.5
Dec85.5

Air quality in Serang 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 Serang is worst in May — around 74 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 1.9× the cleanest month (December, 38 µg/m³).

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

020406080JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecPoorUnhealthyPoorMay 2073 µg/m³Dec 2438 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan39Poor
Feb41Poor
Mar51Poor
Apr62Unhealthy
May74Unhealthy
Jun69Unhealthy
Jul67Unhealthy
Aug67Unhealthy
Sep70Unhealthy
Oct69Unhealthy
Nov61Unhealthy
Dec38Poor
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Serang 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. Serang banks about 6,493 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)
Jan539
Feb489
Mar553
Apr544
May566
Jun537
Jul540
Aug540
Sep535
Oct563
Nov539
Dec547

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.

Serang receives about 5.2 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 4.7 and 6.0 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseSep 226.0 kWhDec 184.7 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.8Bright
Feb5.0Bright
Mar5.2Bright
Apr5.1Bright
May5.0Bright
Jun4.8Bright
Jul5.0Bright
Aug5.5Bright
Sep6.0Intense
Oct5.8Bright
Nov5.2Bright
Dec4.7Bright

Where is Serang?

Serang sits at 6.1°S, 106.2°E, 29 m above sea level, in Indonesia. The nearest listed city is Cilegon, 16 km away.

Topography around Serang

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Serang has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 43 m around an average of 29 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 489 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,912 m.

The land around Serang is covered by artificial surfaces (61%) and trees (29%) within 3 km, trees (45%) and cropland (24%) within 16 km, and water (50%) and trees (35%) within 80 km.

3 km
43 m
16 km
489 m
80 km
1,912 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswaterwetland
Nearby: Cilegon 16 km · Pandeglang 22 km · Kresek 25 km · Rangkasbitung 29 km · Cikupa 41 km · Pasarkemis 42 km · Labuan 46 km · Sepatan 47 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 Serang (-6.1153°, 106.1542°, elevation 29 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).