Salatiga climate

Name: Salatiga
Address: ID

Salatiga is warmest in September, with average highs of 30 °C, and coldest in August, when nights average 20 °C. January is the wettest month (502 mm) and August the driest (32 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Salatiga averages 2,934 mm of rain and 356 days above 25 °C.

Indonesia · population 198,971 · 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 30 °C
Coldest month August 20 °C
Driest month August 32 mm
Wettest month January 502 mm
Least cloud August 56 % cloud
Hottest on record October 35 °C
Coldest on record July 14 °C

What to expectSalatiga through the year

Salatiga changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 29 and 30 °C, so no month stands out as a season in the way it would further from the equator.

Counted across a normal year, 356 days a year reach 25 °C, 47 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 35 °C, in October.

Rain is strongly seasonal. January averages 502 mm against 32 mm in August — 16 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	26.6 °C	502 mm	92 %
February	26.8 °C	483 mm	93 %
March	27.2 °C	428 mm	88 %
April	27.6 °C	272 mm	82 %
May	27.9 °C	123 mm	67 %
June	28.1 °C	74 mm	61 %
July	28.5 °C	47 mm	58 %
August	29.3 °C	32 mm	56 %
September	30.2 °C	54 mm	62 %
October	29.9 °C	146 mm	72 %
November	28.3 °C	305 mm	85 %
December	27.1 °C	466 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	26.6 °C	20.7 °C	23.1 °C	29.9 °C	17.9 °C	28	0
February	26.8 °C	20.7 °C	23.1 °C	29.2 °C	18.0 °C	26	0
March	27.2 °C	20.8 °C	23.4 °C	29.5 °C	17.8 °C	30	0
April	27.6 °C	20.9 °C	23.7 °C	29.8 °C	17.6 °C	30	0
May	27.9 °C	20.8 °C	23.9 °C	30.3 °C	15.8 °C	31	0
June	28.1 °C	20.3 °C	23.8 °C	31.2 °C	15.5 °C	30	1
July	28.5 °C	19.7 °C	23.7 °C	32.6 °C	14.4 °C	31	3
August	29.3 °C	19.7 °C	24.0 °C	32.5 °C	14.8 °C	31	8
September	30.2 °C	20.6 °C	24.8 °C	34.3 °C	15.5 °C	30	17
October	29.9 °C	21.3 °C	24.9 °C	34.8 °C	15.3 °C	31	14
November	28.3 °C	21.2 °C	24.1 °C	33.8 °C	19.1 °C	29	5
December	27.1 °C	20.8 °C	23.3 °C	31.0 °C	17.2 °C	29	0

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	502 mm	30	13 h/day	92 %	91 %	8.1 km/h
February	483 mm	28	12 h/day	93 %	91 %	8.8 km/h
March	428 mm	30	12 h/day	88 %	90 %	7.7 km/h
April	272 mm	27	12 h/day	82 %	89 %	7.2 km/h
May	123 mm	19	12 h/day	67 %	85 %	7.8 km/h
June	74 mm	12	12 h/day	61 %	81 %	8.3 km/h
July	47 mm	8	12 h/day	58 %	76 %	9.0 km/h
August	32 mm	5	12 h/day	56 %	71 %	9.6 km/h
September	54 mm	7	12 h/day	62 %	70 %	9.9 km/h
October	146 mm	16	12 h/day	72 %	76 %	9.2 km/h
November	305 mm	25	12 h/day	85 %	85 %	7.7 km/h
December	466 mm	29	13 h/day	91 %	90 %	7.1 km/h

How Salatiga 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
Salatiga	30 °C	20 °C	2,934 mm	356
Ungaran · Indonesia	31 °C	21 °C	2,896 mm	358
Semarang · Indonesia	32 °C	23 °C	2,324 mm	365
Surakarta · Indonesia	33 °C	21 °C	2,207 mm	365
Yogyakarta · Indonesia	30 °C	21 °C	2,592 mm	364

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Salatiga’s climate

When is the best time to visit Salatiga?

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 Salatiga get?

In September, the warmest month, daily highs average 30 °C. About 47 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 35 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 20 °C in August, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Salatiga?

January, averaging 502 mm over 30 days with rain. The driest month is August with 32 mm. The year as a whole averages 2,934 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 Salatiga 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: -7.332°, 110.493° (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.