Climate and average weather in Tegal

In Tegal, the weather is muggy, 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 early October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Tegal typically varies from 25°C to 30°C, and is rarely below 24°C or above 31°C. October is the hottest month of the year, while February is the coldest.

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

Hottest
Oct
30°
Coldest
Feb
26°
Wettest
Jan
392 mm
Driest
Aug
26 mm
Rain / yr
2234 mm
235 wet days
Daylight
11.6–12.4 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
7 m
6.9°S
Clearest
Aug
47% cloud

Tegal is city in Central Java Province, Indonesia.

Density
7,489/km²
people per km²
Founded
1580

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

Tegal 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 early October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Tegal stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is October, with an average high of 30°C and low of 26°C; the coolest is February, with an average low of 26°C and high of 29°C.

Days typically run about 3°C warmer than nights year-round.

20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2926
Feb2926
Mar2926
Apr2926
May3027
Jun2926
Jul2925
Aug2925
Sep2926
Oct3026
Nov2926
Dec2926

How hot and cold Tegal 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, Tegal feels like about 36°C (around April 29). Nearly every day a year carries some heat stress, peaking in April.

25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan34292626
Feb34292626
Mar35292626
Apr36292626
May36302727
Jun34292626
Jul32292525
Aug32292525
Sep33292626
Oct34302626
Nov35292626
Dec35292626

Average hourly temperature in Tegal

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 30°C, and coldest before dawn in February, near 26°C.

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

Tegal 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° / 26°39229.712.43.0
Feb29° / 26°34127.212.22.9
Mar29° / 26°29029.5122.9
Apr29° / 26°21926.211.93.2
May30° / 27°12419.411.74.1
Jun29° / 26°8213.111.65.0
Jul29° / 25°518.911.65.8
Aug29° / 25°266.311.86.2
Sep29° / 26°376.7125.7
Oct30° / 26°10314.912.24.6
Nov29° / 26°22724.412.33.4
Dec29° / 26°34328.912.42.9

Chance of rain

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

Tegal gets about 2234 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 6.4 months, from around Oct 29 to May 12, peaking in January at about 99% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Aug 6.

January is the wettest month by volume, with 392 mm over about 30 wet days; August is the driest, with 26 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJan 28 · 99%Aug 6 · 18%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan9630
Feb9727
Mar9530
Apr8726
May6319
Jun4413
Jul289
Aug206
Sep237
Oct4815
Nov8124
Dec9329

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Tegal collects about 2234 mm of rain across 235 wet days — roughly 186 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. January is the wettest month with 392 mm, while August is the driest at just 26 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 48% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400450JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec39234129021912482512637103227343
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan39230
Feb34127
Mar29030
Apr21926
May12419
Jun8213
Jul519
Aug266
Sep377
Oct10315
Nov22724
Dec34329

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Tegal, 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 April 29 and lasts for 5.9 months, ending around October 24. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 68% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 25 and lasts for 6.1 months, ending around April 28. The cloudiest month is February, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 94% 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 9 · 71%Feb 8 · 5%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan991
Feb694
Mar1486
Apr2674
May5050
Jun5842
Jul6436
Aug6832
Sep5941
Oct4258
Nov2179
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 January 1, brings about 12 h 24 min of light; the shortest, around May 26, 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)
Jan12.45:426:03
Feb12.25:516:05
Mar12.05:525:55
Apr11.95:485:39
May11.75:495:30
Jun11.65:565:32
Jul11.66:005:38
Aug11.85:545:41
Sep12.05:395:37
Oct12.25:245:33
Nov12.35:195:38
Dec12.45:285:52

Sunny days

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

Tegal averages about 6 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 14 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.6 months, from around May 6 to Oct 23. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 14 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is February, down near 0 sunny days — about 98% fewer than the August peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightAug 714 daysFeb 40 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan1Gloomy
Feb0Gloomy
Mar1Gloomy
Apr3Gloomy
May9Mixed
Jun11Mixed
Jul13Mixed
Aug14Mixed
Sep12Mixed
Oct8Gloomy
Nov3Gloomy
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.

Tegal 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecmiserableoppressivemuggy
Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan03268
Feb02971
Mar02179
Apr01090
May11881
Jun24552
Jul107416
Aug14797
Sep8839
Oct17128
Nov03763
Dec02971

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

The windier part of the year lasts 2.9 months, from around Dec 15 to Mar 11. The windiest month is January, averaging about 11 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Mar 12 to Jul 27, with April the calmest month at about 6 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmercalmlight breezeJan 30 · 12 km/hApr 11 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan11calm
Feb11calm
Mar7calm
Apr6calm
May6calm
Jun7calm
Jul8calm
Aug8calm
Sep8calm
Oct7calm
Nov6calm
Dec8calm

Hazard calendar for Tegal

In seasonPeak

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

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

Tegal's monsoon runs November–April, when most of the year's rain falls.

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

Best time to visit Tegal

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 7 · 6.3

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
Jan3.0poor
Feb2.9poor
Mar2.9poor
Apr3.2poor
May4.1fair
Jun5.0fair
Jul5.8good
Aug6.1good
Sep5.7good
Oct4.6fair
Nov3.4poor
Dec2.9poor

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 Tegal for hot-weather activities is from mid June to mid October, with a peak score in the first week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 7 · 8.0

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 Tegal, 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.

Tegal packs about the same all year — highs hold near 30°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, Tegal sees daytime highs around 30°C and nights near 26°C. Pack light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. About 15 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Tegal

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 February 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
Dec30Tropical

UV index (midday) in Tegal 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 Tegal peaks around March 15 at about 14 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near November 16 at about 6 (high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highExtremeMar 15UV 14Nov 16UV 6
UV index (midday)Level
Jan12Extreme
Feb12Extreme
Mar14Extreme
Apr11Extreme
May8Very high
Jun8Very high
Jul9Very high
Aug11Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct11Extreme
Nov6High
Dec12Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Tegal

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 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
Mar86.5
Apr7.55.5
May6.53.5
Jun6.53.5
Jul74.5
Aug7.55.5
Sep7.55.5
Oct7.55.5
Nov61.5
Dec86

Air quality in Tegal 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 Tegal is worst in May — around 42 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorModeratePoorModerateMay 1641 µg/m³Feb 1231 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan33Moderate
Feb31Moderate
Mar37Poor
Apr38Poor
May42Poor
Jun38Poor
Jul35Moderate
Aug35Moderate
Sep36Poor
Oct37Poor
Nov34Moderate
Dec33Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Tegal 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. Tegal banks about 6,400 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)
Jan534
Feb480
Mar543
Apr536
May559
Jun528
Jul531
Aug528
Sep525
Oct555
Nov534
Dec546

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.

Tegal receives about 5.5 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.9 and 6.4 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 3.9 months, from around Jul 23 to Nov 19. The brightest month is September, averaging about 6.4 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is January, down near 5.0 kWh/m² — roughly 22% less than the September peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseSep 296.4 kWhJan 284.9 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.0Bright
Feb5.1Bright
Mar5.4Bright
Apr5.3Bright
May5.3Bright
Jun5.0Bright
Jul5.3Bright
Aug5.9Bright
Sep6.4Intense
Oct6.3Intense
Nov5.5Bright
Dec5.0Bright

Where is Tegal?

Tegal sits at 6.9°S, 109.1°E, 7 m above sea level, in Indonesia. The nearest listed city is Dukuhturi, 7.0 km away.

Topography around Tegal

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Tegal has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 17 m around an average of 5 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 152 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,396 m.

The land around Tegal is covered by artificial surfaces (60%) within 3 km, water (41%) and cropland (27%) within 16 km, and trees (44%) and water (34%) within 80 km.

3 km
17 m
16 km
152 m
80 km
3,396 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswaterwetlandmangroves
Nearby: Dukuhturi 7.0 km · Adiwerna 8.0 km · Tarub 8.0 km · Slawi 12 km · Lebaksiu 20 km · Bulakamba 20 km · Balapulang 20 km · Pemalang 27 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 Tegal (-6.8694°, 109.1402°, elevation 7 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).