Climate and average weather in Wonosobo

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

Best: mid June to late September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Wonosobo typically varies from 18°C to 26°C, and is rarely below 16°C or above 28°C. April is the hottest month of the year, while July is the coldest.

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

Hottest
Apr
26°
Coldest
Jul
18°
Wettest
Jan
560 mm
Driest
Aug
56 mm
Rain / yr
3760 mm
265 wet days
Daylight
11.6–12.4 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
794 m
7.4°S
Clearest
Aug
65% cloud

Wonosobo 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 Wonosobo, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

Temperatures in Wonosobo stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is April, with an average high of 26°C and low of 20°C; the coolest is July, with an average low of 18°C and high of 25°C.

Days typically run about 7°C warmer than nights year-round.

15°20°25°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2620
Feb2620
Mar2620
Apr2620
May2620
Jun2619
Jul2518
Aug2618
Sep2619
Oct2619
Nov2620
Dec2620

Average hourly temperature in Wonosobo

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 April afternoons, near 26°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near 18°C.

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

Wonosobo 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
Jan26° / 20°56030.212.43.4
Feb26° / 20°54627.912.23.3
Mar26° / 20°52430.1123.4
Apr26° / 20°37927.711.83.6
May26° / 20°19122.111.74.7
Jun26° / 19°11815.711.65.6
Jul25° / 18°7512.211.66.3
Aug26° / 18°569.511.86.7
Sep26° / 19°8912.7126.0
Oct26° / 19°23920.712.24.8
Nov26° / 20°43727.612.33.7
Dec26° / 20°54729.112.43.5

Chance of rain

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

Wonosobo gets about 3760 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 6.6 months, from around Oct 23 to May 12, peaking in February at about 100% 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 560 mm over about 30 wet days; August is the driest, with 56 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetFeb 2 · 100%Aug 6 · 28%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan9730
Feb9928
Mar9730
Apr9228
May7122
Jun5316
Jul3812
Aug3110
Sep4313
Oct6721
Nov9128
Dec9429

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Wonosobo collects about 3760 mm of rain across 265 wet days — roughly 313 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. January is the wettest month with 560 mm, while August is the driest at just 56 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 44% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400450500550600650JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec560546524379191118755689239437547
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan56030
Feb54628
Mar52430
Apr37928
May19122
Jun11816
Jul7512
Aug5610
Sep8913
Oct23921
Nov43728
Dec54729

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Wonosobo, 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 7 and lasts for 5.6 months, ending around October 22. 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 23 and lasts for 6.4 months, ending around May 6. The cloudiest month is February, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 99% 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 · 40%Feb 1 · 0%mostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan298
Feb199
Mar496
Apr991
May2377
Jun3565
Jul3664
Aug3961
Sep3565
Oct2179
Nov892
Dec397

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 20, 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)
Jan12.45:386:01
Feb12.25:486:02
Mar12.05:495:52
Apr11.85:455:36
May11.75:475:27
Jun11.65:535:28
Jul11.65:585:34
Aug11.85:525:37
Sep12.05:365:34
Oct12.25:205:30
Nov12.35:155:36
Dec12.45:245:49

Sunny days

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

Wonosobo 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 5 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.4 months, from around May 8 to Oct 18. The sunniest month is June, with roughly 4 sunny days (gloomy).

The greyest month is January, down near 0 sunny days — about 96% fewer than the June peak.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedJun 285 daysJan 250 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan0Gloomy
Feb0Gloomy
Mar0Gloomy
Apr0Gloomy
May2Gloomy
Jun4Gloomy
Jul4Gloomy
Aug4Gloomy
Sep3Gloomy
Oct2Gloomy
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.

Wonosobo 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 99% of the time. Even in August, the mildest month, the air is dry or comfortable only 14% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecAug 13 · 15%Jan 1 · 0%oppressivemuggyhumidcomfortablehumidcomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan001962
Feb000964
Mar001927
Apr0018712
May017849
Jun0224732
Jul0846460
Aug01455310
Sep1955360
Oct0329670
Nov005931
Dec002953

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 Wonosobo is steady company: average speeds sit near 3 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmJan 30 · 4 km/hApr 22 · 2 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan4calm
Feb4calm
Mar3calm
Apr2calm
May2calm
Jun3calm
Jul3calm
Aug3calm
Sep3calm
Oct3calm
Nov3calm
Dec3calm

Hazard calendar for Wonosobo

In seasonPeak

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

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

Wonosobo's rainy season runs November–April, 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 Wonosobo

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late September, Wonosobo 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 Wonosobo 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 6 · 6.8

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
Jan3.4poor
Feb3.3poor
Mar3.4poor
Apr3.7fair
May4.7fair
Jun5.6good
Jul6.4good
Aug6.7good
Sep6.0good
Oct4.8fair
Nov3.7fair
Dec3.5fair

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

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 7 · 6.3

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 Wonosobo, 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.

Wonosobo packs about the same all year — highs hold near 26°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 April, Wonosobo sees daytime highs around 26°C and nights near 20°C. Pack rain gear. Worth having: light clothes and sun protection. About 28 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Wonosobo

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 54 km away) 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 Wonosobo 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 Wonosobo peaks around March 15 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near June 10 at about 7 (very high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highExtremeVery highExtremeMar 15UV 15Jun 10UV 7
UV index (midday)Level
Jan14Extreme
Feb13Extreme
Mar15Extreme
Apr11Extreme
May7Very high
Jun7Very high
Jul10Very high
Aug12Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct13Extreme
Nov8Very high
Dec13Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Wonosobo

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)
Jan8.56.5
Feb86
Mar86.5
Apr7.55.5
May6.53.5
Jun6.53.5
Jul75
Aug86
Sep86
Oct86
Nov74
Dec86

Air quality in Wonosobo 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 Wonosobo is worst in April — around 58 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 1.7× the cleanest month (September, 34 µg/m³).

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecPoorUnhealthyPoorModeratePoorApr 2158 µg/m³Sep 1134 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan48Poor
Feb46Poor
Mar54Poor
Apr58Unhealthy
May57Unhealthy
Jun51Poor
Jul42Poor
Aug35Moderate
Sep34Moderate
Oct37Poor
Nov42Poor
Dec42Poor
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Wonosobo 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. Wonosobo banks about 4,594 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around April.

01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan391
Feb355
Mar399
Apr393
May403
Jun372
Jul366
Aug366
Sep370
Oct395
Nov386
Dec397

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.

Wonosobo receives about 4.8 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 4.3 and 5.8 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseSep 165.8 kWhJan 304.3 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.4Bright
Feb4.4Bright
Mar4.7Bright
Apr4.6Bright
May4.7Bright
Jun4.6Bright
Jul4.9Bright
Aug5.4Bright
Sep5.8Bright
Oct5.5Bright
Nov4.7Bright
Dec4.3Bright

Where is Wonosobo?

Wonosobo sits at 7.4°S, 109.9°E, 794 m above sea level, in Indonesia. The nearest listed city is Magelang, 37 km away.

Topography around Wonosobo

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Wonosobo has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 314 m around an average of 754 m above sea level; within 16 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,820 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,396 m.

The land around Wonosobo is covered by trees (67%) and artificial surfaces (24%) within 3 km, trees (83%) within 16 km, and trees (57%) and water (23%) within 80 km.

3 km
314 m
16 km
2,820 m
80 km
3,396 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Magelang 37 km · Kutoarjo 40 km · Mertoyudan 40 km · Weleri 47 km · Muntilan 50 km · Gombong 51 km · Kedungwuni 52 km · Buaran 52 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 Wonosobo (-7.3589°, 109.9031°, elevation 794 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).