Purwakarta climate

Name: Purwakarta
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Purwakarta is warmest in September, with average highs of 33 °C, and coldest in July, when nights average 22 °C. January is the wettest month (286 mm) and August the driest (40 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Purwakarta averages 2,178 mm of rain and 365 days above 25 °C.

Indonesia · population 179,233 · 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 33 °C
Coldest month July 22 °C
Driest month August 40 mm
Wettest month January 286 mm
Least cloud August 55 % cloud
Hottest on record October 39 °C
Coldest on record July 17 °C

What to expectPurwakarta through the year

Purwakarta changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 31 and 33 °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, 176 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 39 °C, in October.

Rain is strongly seasonal. January averages 286 mm against 40 mm in August — 7.1 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	28.8 °C	286 mm	91 %
February	28.8 °C	277 mm	92 %
March	29.5 °C	272 mm	87 %
April	29.7 °C	235 mm	82 %
May	29.9 °C	132 mm	68 %
June	30.1 °C	79 mm	60 %
July	30.8 °C	60 mm	57 %
August	31.9 °C	40 mm	55 %
September	32.6 °C	63 mm	61 %
October	31.9 °C	177 mm	72 %
November	30.3 °C	279 mm	85 %
December	29.4 °C	279 mm	91 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	28.8 °C	22.8 °C	25.2 °C	32.7 °C	20.5 °C	31	5
February	28.8 °C	22.8 °C	25.2 °C	32.1 °C	21.0 °C	28	4
March	29.5 °C	22.9 °C	25.6 °C	32.2 °C	20.4 °C	31	8
April	29.7 °C	23.0 °C	25.8 °C	31.8 °C	20.8 °C	30	11
May	29.9 °C	22.8 °C	26.0 °C	33.1 °C	18.9 °C	31	14
June	30.1 °C	22.3 °C	25.9 °C	35.6 °C	18.4 °C	30	14
July	30.8 °C	21.9 °C	26.0 °C	35.5 °C	17.2 °C	31	19
August	31.9 °C	22.2 °C	26.6 °C	36.7 °C	18.3 °C	31	25
September	32.6 °C	22.8 °C	27.1 °C	37.2 °C	18.8 °C	30	27
October	31.9 °C	23.3 °C	26.9 °C	38.7 °C	20.7 °C	31	24
November	30.3 °C	23.3 °C	26.1 °C	38.0 °C	21.1 °C	30	15
December	29.4 °C	23.1 °C	25.6 °C	33.9 °C	19.4 °C	31	9

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	286 mm	29	12 h/day	91 %	89 %	13 km/h
February	277 mm	27	12 h/day	92 %	90 %	12 km/h
March	272 mm	29	12 h/day	87 %	89 %	11 km/h
April	235 mm	27	12 h/day	82 %	89 %	9.0 km/h
May	132 mm	20	12 h/day	68 %	87 %	8.7 km/h
June	79 mm	14	12 h/day	60 %	84 %	9.4 km/h
July	60 mm	10	12 h/day	57 %	78 %	11 km/h
August	40 mm	7	12 h/day	55 %	74 %	12 km/h
September	63 mm	9	12 h/day	61 %	73 %	12 km/h
October	177 mm	19	12 h/day	72 %	78 %	11 km/h
November	279 mm	26	12 h/day	85 %	86 %	9.4 km/h
December	279 mm	28	13 h/day	91 %	88 %	11 km/h

How Purwakarta 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
Purwakarta	33 °C	22 °C	2,178 mm	365
Karawang · Indonesia	33 °C	22 °C	2,328 mm	365
Padalarang · Indonesia	28 °C	19 °C	2,892 mm	320
Lembang · Indonesia	25 °C	16 °C	2,914 mm	34
Cimahi · Indonesia	27 °C	18 °C	2,953 mm	282
Bandung · Indonesia	28 °C	19 °C	3,437 mm	333
Cianjur · Indonesia	30 °C	20 °C	2,458 mm	358

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Purwakarta’s climate

When is the best time to visit Purwakarta?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. January, February, March 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 Purwakarta get?

In September, the warmest month, daily highs average 33 °C. About 176 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 39 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 22 °C in July, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Purwakarta?

January, averaging 286 mm over 29 days with rain. The driest month is August with 40 mm. The year as a whole averages 2,178 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 Purwakarta 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: -6.557°, 107.443° (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.