Manado climate

Name: Manado
Address: ID

Manado is warmest in September, with average highs of 31 °C, and coldest in February, when nights average 24 °C. May is the wettest month (320 mm) and September the driest (148 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Manado averages 2,978 mm of rain and 365 days above 25 °C.

Indonesia · population 458,582 · 1991–2020 normals

Temperature below 0 °C to above 30 °C Rain band height is that month’s share of the wettest month

Warmest month September 31 °C
Coldest month February 24 °C
Driest month September 148 mm
Wettest month May 320 mm
Least cloud August 65 % cloud
Hottest on record April 38 °C
Coldest on record September 20 °C
Warmest sea May 29 °C

What to expectManado through the year

Manado changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 29 and 31 °C, so no month stands out as a season in the way it would further from the equator.

Counted across a normal year, 365 days a year reach 25 °C, 153 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 38 °C, in April.

Rain is strongly seasonal. May averages 320 mm against 148 mm in September — 2.2 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

The sea off Manado is warmest in May at 29 °C and coldest in February at 28 °C. Sea temperature lags the air by a month or two, which is why late summer swims warmer than early summer at the same air temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	28.6 °C	270 mm	86 %
February	28.7 °C	246 mm	84 %
March	29.2 °C	238 mm	81 %
April	29.7 °C	274 mm	78 %
May	30.2 °C	320 mm	74 %
June	29.9 °C	313 mm	75 %
July	29.9 °C	218 mm	71 %
August	30.4 °C	151 mm	65 %
September	31.0 °C	148 mm	67 %
October	30.7 °C	245 mm	74 %
November	29.7 °C	273 mm	82 %
December	29.0 °C	283 mm	86 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	28.6 °C	24.3 °C	26.0 °C	31.4 °C	22.4 °C	31	2
February	28.7 °C	24.2 °C	26.0 °C	34.4 °C	21.9 °C	28	2
March	29.2 °C	24.4 °C	26.3 °C	34.5 °C	22.3 °C	31	5
April	29.7 °C	24.8 °C	26.7 °C	38.2 °C	22.8 °C	30	11
May	30.2 °C	25.1 °C	27.1 °C	35.3 °C	23.1 °C	31	19
June	29.9 °C	24.7 °C	26.7 °C	34.3 °C	22.0 °C	30	16
July	29.9 °C	24.4 °C	26.6 °C	34.9 °C	21.8 °C	31	15
August	30.4 °C	24.3 °C	26.8 °C	33.6 °C	22.0 °C	31	21
September	31.0 °C	24.4 °C	27.1 °C	37.5 °C	20.4 °C	30	24
October	30.7 °C	24.7 °C	27.1 °C	34.7 °C	22.1 °C	31	23
November	29.7 °C	24.8 °C	26.7 °C	34.3 °C	22.4 °C	30	12
December	29.0 °C	24.6 °C	26.3 °C	34.1 °C	22.2 °C	31	4

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind	Sea temp
January	270 mm	28	12 h/day	86 %	90 %	10 km/h	28.5 °C
February	246 mm	25	12 h/day	84 %	90 %	10 km/h	28.4 °C
March	238 mm	27	12 h/day	81 %	89 %	9.8 km/h	28.6 °C
April	274 mm	27	12 h/day	78 %	89 %	7.8 km/h	29.1 °C
May	320 mm	27	12 h/day	74 %	88 %	6.8 km/h	29.4 °C
June	313 mm	25	12 h/day	75 %	88 %	7.5 km/h	29.4 °C
July	218 mm	20	12 h/day	71 %	86 %	8.9 km/h	29.2 °C
August	151 mm	15	12 h/day	65 %	82 %	9.9 km/h	29.0 °C
September	148 mm	17	12 h/day	67 %	82 %	8.1 km/h	29.2 °C
October	245 mm	23	12 h/day	74 %	85 %	7.1 km/h	29.4 °C
November	273 mm	28	12 h/day	82 %	89 %	7.4 km/h	29.3 °C
December	283 mm	29	12 h/day	86 %	90 %	9.4 km/h	29.0 °C

How Manado compares

The same four figures for nearby destinations, so the numbers above have something to be read against. Summer high is the warmest month's average high; winter low is the coldest month's average low.

Destination	Summer high	Winter low	Rain per year	Days above 25 °C
Manado	31 °C	24 °C	2,978 mm	365
Bitung · Indonesia	30 °C	25 °C	2,894 mm	365
Gorontalo · Indonesia	31 °C	24 °C	2,129 mm	365
Ternate · Indonesia	29 °C	25 °C	2,618 mm	365
Toli-Toli · Indonesia	30 °C	23 °C	2,049 mm	365
Palu · Indonesia	31 °C	24 °C	3,588 mm	365

Where Manado ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Warmest sea temperatures in Asia in December	43rd of 50	29 °C

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Manado.

QuestionsCommon questions about Manado’s climate

When is the best time to visit Manado?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. January, February, December sit closest to 20 °C on average, September is the warmest month and September the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Manado get?

In September, the warmest month, daily highs average 31 °C. About 153 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 38 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 24 °C in February, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Manado?

May, averaging 320 mm over 27 days with rain. The driest month is September with 148 mm. The year as a whole averages 2,978 mm.

Are these figures a forecast?

No. They are 1991–2020 climate normals: the average of thirty years, which describes what a month is usually like in Manado rather than what any particular week will bring. Individual years can differ substantially from the normal.

Data sources and method

ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis — Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), ECMWF. Copernicus Licence
Open-Meteo — Open-Meteo.com. CC BY 4.0
NOAA OISST v2.1 — NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public domain
GeoNames — GeoNames.org. CC BY 4.0

Normal period: 1991–2020
Data point: 1.482°, 124.849° (the coordinates the reanalysis values are taken for)
Dataset version: era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
Last processed: 1 August 2026

Measured values come from ERA5 reanalysis and are reproduced unchanged. Calculated by us: monthly rankings, daylight hours, beach and comfort scores. Full formulas are on the methodology page.

Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.