Palembang climate

Name: Palembang
Address: ID

Palembang is warmest in September, with average highs of 32 °C, and coldest in July, when nights average 23 °C. December is the wettest month (306 mm) and August the driest (81 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Palembang averages 2,410 mm of rain and 365 days above 25 °C.

Indonesia · population 1,801,367 · 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 32 °C
Coldest month July 23 °C
Driest month August 81 mm
Wettest month December 306 mm
Least cloud July 70 % cloud
Hottest on record October 37 °C
Coldest on record August 20 °C

What to expectPalembang through the year

Palembang changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 30 and 32 °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, 212 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 37 °C, in October.

Rain is strongly seasonal. December averages 306 mm against 81 mm in August — 3.8 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	29.3 °C	247 mm	92 %
February	29.7 °C	242 mm	90 %
March	30.1 °C	300 mm	90 %
April	30.3 °C	274 mm	89 %
May	30.3 °C	181 mm	79 %
June	30.1 °C	122 mm	71 %
July	30.0 °C	115 mm	70 %
August	31.0 °C	81 mm	71 %
September	31.9 °C	85 mm	77 %
October	31.7 °C	172 mm	83 %
November	30.2 °C	286 mm	92 %
December	29.4 °C	306 mm	95 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	29.3 °C	23.3 °C	25.6 °C	32.2 °C	21.2 °C	31	8
February	29.7 °C	23.4 °C	25.8 °C	32.4 °C	20.9 °C	28	12
March	30.1 °C	23.6 °C	26.1 °C	32.2 °C	21.9 °C	31	18
April	30.3 °C	23.9 °C	26.3 °C	32.5 °C	22.5 °C	30	19
May	30.3 °C	23.9 °C	26.4 °C	32.9 °C	21.8 °C	31	20
June	30.1 °C	23.5 °C	26.2 °C	32.7 °C	21.2 °C	30	18
July	30.0 °C	23.0 °C	26.0 °C	33.2 °C	20.3 °C	31	16
August	31.0 °C	23.1 °C	26.5 °C	35.0 °C	20.2 °C	31	23
September	31.9 °C	23.3 °C	27.0 °C	36.3 °C	20.3 °C	30	26
October	31.7 °C	23.6 °C	27.0 °C	36.9 °C	20.8 °C	31	24
November	30.2 °C	23.7 °C	26.2 °C	35.9 °C	21.3 °C	30	17
December	29.4 °C	23.5 °C	25.7 °C	32.2 °C	22.2 °C	31	11

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	247 mm	28	12 h/day	92 %	89 %	11 km/h
February	242 mm	25	12 h/day	90 %	88 %	11 km/h
March	300 mm	29	12 h/day	90 %	90 %	8.7 km/h
April	274 mm	28	12 h/day	89 %	90 %	7.7 km/h
May	181 mm	25	12 h/day	79 %	89 %	8.5 km/h
June	122 mm	19	12 h/day	71 %	88 %	9.4 km/h
July	115 mm	17	12 h/day	70 %	86 %	10 km/h
August	81 mm	13	12 h/day	71 %	81 %	11 km/h
September	85 mm	13	12 h/day	77 %	78 %	11 km/h
October	172 mm	19	12 h/day	83 %	81 %	9.6 km/h
November	286 mm	26	12 h/day	92 %	88 %	8.1 km/h
December	306 mm	29	12 h/day	95 %	90 %	9.7 km/h

How Palembang 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
Palembang	32 °C	23 °C	2,410 mm	365
Pangkalpinang · Indonesia	30 °C	24 °C	2,843 mm	365
Jambi City · Indonesia	31 °C	23 °C	2,490 mm	364
Lubuklinggau · Indonesia	30 °C	22 °C	2,794 mm	364
Metro · Indonesia	31 °C	22 °C	2,031 mm	365
Bandar Lampung · Indonesia	30 °C	23 °C	2,655 mm	365
Bengkulu · Indonesia	29 °C	23 °C	2,926 mm	362

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Palembang’s climate

When is the best time to visit Palembang?

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 August the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Palembang get?

In September, the warmest month, daily highs average 32 °C. About 212 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 37 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 23 °C in July, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Palembang?

December, averaging 306 mm over 29 days with rain. The driest month is August with 81 mm. The year as a whole averages 2,410 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 Palembang 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: -2.917°, 104.746° (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.