Surakarta climate

Name: Surakarta
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Surakarta is warmest in September, with average highs of 33 °C, and coldest in August, when nights average 21 °C. January is the wettest month (356 mm) and August the driest (20 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Surakarta averages 2,207 mm of rain and 365 days above 25 °C.

Indonesia · population 526,870 · 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 August 21 °C
Driest month August 20 mm
Wettest month January 356 mm
Least cloud August 56 % cloud
Hottest on record October 40 °C
Coldest on record July 17 °C

What to expectSurakarta through the year

Surakarta changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 32 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, 205 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 40 °C, in October.

Rain is strongly seasonal. January averages 356 mm against 20 mm in August — 18 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	28.9 °C	356 mm	91 %
February	29.2 °C	348 mm	93 %
March	29.6 °C	323 mm	87 %
April	29.9 °C	222 mm	81 %
May	30.3 °C	114 mm	67 %
June	30.7 °C	59 mm	61 %
July	31.1 °C	39 mm	58 %
August	31.7 °C	20 mm	56 %
September	32.6 °C	43 mm	61 %
October	32.3 °C	122 mm	71 %
November	30.6 °C	245 mm	84 %
December	29.2 °C	316 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	28.9 °C	22.6 °C	25.1 °C	31.9 °C	20.5 °C	31	5
February	29.2 °C	22.6 °C	25.1 °C	31.7 °C	20.9 °C	28	6
March	29.6 °C	22.7 °C	25.4 °C	32.1 °C	20.1 °C	31	11
April	29.9 °C	22.8 °C	25.7 °C	32.2 °C	20.0 °C	30	14
May	30.3 °C	22.6 °C	26.0 °C	35.6 °C	17.1 °C	31	19
June	30.7 °C	22.1 °C	25.9 °C	36.3 °C	16.8 °C	30	20
July	31.1 °C	21.5 °C	25.7 °C	35.3 °C	16.7 °C	31	24
August	31.7 °C	21.3 °C	25.8 °C	36.7 °C	16.7 °C	31	28
September	32.6 °C	22.2 °C	26.5 °C	38.5 °C	17.0 °C	30	28
October	32.3 °C	23.0 °C	26.7 °C	39.7 °C	18.4 °C	31	27
November	30.6 °C	23.2 °C	26.1 °C	37.5 °C	20.7 °C	30	16
December	29.2 °C	22.8 °C	25.3 °C	35.2 °C	19.6 °C	31	8

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	356 mm	28	13 h/day	91 %	89 %	9.4 km/h
February	348 mm	27	12 h/day	93 %	89 %	9.1 km/h
March	323 mm	28	12 h/day	87 %	89 %	9.2 km/h
April	222 mm	25	12 h/day	81 %	88 %	8.5 km/h
May	114 mm	17	12 h/day	67 %	84 %	8.6 km/h
June	59 mm	10	12 h/day	61 %	80 %	9.8 km/h
July	39 mm	6	12 h/day	58 %	75 %	11 km/h
August	20 mm	4	12 h/day	56 %	72 %	13 km/h
September	43 mm	6	12 h/day	61 %	71 %	13 km/h
October	122 mm	14	12 h/day	71 %	76 %	12 km/h
November	245 mm	24	12 h/day	84 %	84 %	11 km/h
December	316 mm	26	13 h/day	91 %	88 %	10 km/h

How Surakarta 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
Surakarta	33 °C	21 °C	2,207 mm	365
Salatiga · Indonesia	30 °C	20 °C	2,934 mm	356
Yogyakarta · Indonesia	30 °C	21 °C	2,592 mm	364
Ungaran · Indonesia	31 °C	21 °C	2,896 mm	358
Madiun · Indonesia	33 °C	22 °C	2,468 mm	365

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Surakarta’s climate

When is the best time to visit Surakarta?

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 Surakarta get?

In September, the warmest month, daily highs average 33 °C. About 205 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 40 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 21 °C in August, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Surakarta?

January, averaging 356 mm over 28 days with rain. The driest month is August with 20 mm. The year as a whole averages 2,207 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 Surakarta 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
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.