Yogyakarta climate

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Yogyakarta is warmest in October, with average highs of 30 °C, and coldest in August, when nights average 21 °C. December is the wettest month (369 mm) and August the driest (41 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Yogyakarta averages 2,592 mm of rain and 364 days above 25 °C.

Indonesia · population 375,699 · 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 October 30 °C
Coldest month August 21 °C
Driest month August 41 mm
Wettest month December 369 mm
Least cloud August 60 % cloud
Hottest on record October 37 °C
Coldest on record August 15 °C
Warmest sea March 29 °C

What to expectYogyakarta through the year

Yogyakarta 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, 364 days a year reach 25 °C, 81 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 37 °C, in October.

Rain is strongly seasonal. December averages 369 mm against 41 mm in August — 9.0 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

The sea off Yogyakarta is warmest in March at 29 °C and coldest in August at 25 °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	28.4 °C	336 mm	91 %
February	28.7 °C	304 mm	91 %
March	28.9 °C	336 mm	86 %
April	29.2 °C	279 mm	80 %
May	29.5 °C	148 mm	66 %
June	29.4 °C	108 mm	61 %
July	29.1 °C	60 mm	60 %
August	29.3 °C	41 mm	60 %
September	29.9 °C	67 mm	68 %
October	30.0 °C	187 mm	77 %
November	28.9 °C	358 mm	87 %
December	28.2 °C	369 mm	92 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	28.4 °C	22.6 °C	25.0 °C	31.8 °C	19.7 °C	31	2
February	28.7 °C	22.6 °C	25.1 °C	32.1 °C	20.7 °C	28	3
March	28.9 °C	22.6 °C	25.2 °C	31.7 °C	19.0 °C	31	5
April	29.2 °C	22.6 °C	25.5 °C	32.1 °C	19.4 °C	30	6
May	29.5 °C	22.2 °C	25.5 °C	34.6 °C	15.9 °C	31	8
June	29.4 °C	21.5 °C	25.1 °C	35.0 °C	15.8 °C	30	8
July	29.1 °C	20.6 °C	24.5 °C	34.6 °C	15.0 °C	31	6
August	29.3 °C	20.5 °C	24.4 °C	35.1 °C	14.5 °C	31	8
September	29.9 °C	21.5 °C	25.0 °C	37.1 °C	15.5 °C	30	13
October	30.0 °C	22.4 °C	25.5 °C	37.2 °C	16.8 °C	31	13
November	28.9 °C	22.8 °C	25.3 °C	34.2 °C	20.1 °C	30	7
December	28.2 °C	22.7 °C	25.0 °C	33.4 °C	19.4 °C	31	2

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind	Sea temp
January	336 mm	28	13 h/day	91 %	89 %	12 km/h	28.8 °C
February	304 mm	27	12 h/day	91 %	89 %	11 km/h	28.8 °C
March	336 mm	28	12 h/day	86 %	89 %	11 km/h	29.0 °C
April	279 mm	26	12 h/day	80 %	88 %	10 km/h	29.0 °C
May	148 mm	20	12 h/day	66 %	85 %	11 km/h	28.5 °C
June	108 mm	14	12 h/day	61 %	83 %	12 km/h	27.5 °C
July	60 mm	10	12 h/day	60 %	81 %	14 km/h	26.1 °C
August	41 mm	7	12 h/day	60 %	79 %	16 km/h	25.3 °C
September	67 mm	10	12 h/day	68 %	79 %	16 km/h	25.3 °C
October	187 mm	20	12 h/day	77 %	82 %	14 km/h	26.4 °C
November	358 mm	27	12 h/day	87 %	87 %	12 km/h	27.8 °C
December	369 mm	28	13 h/day	92 %	89 %	12 km/h	28.6 °C

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

Where Yogyakarta ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Best beach destinations in Asia in August	22ndof 50	91/100
Warmest sea temperatures in Asia in February	31stof 50	29 °C
Warmest sea temperatures in Asia in January	33rdof 50	29 °C
Best beach destinations in Asia in July	36thof 50	85/100
Warmest sea temperatures in the world in January	47thof 50	29 °C
Warmest sea temperatures in the world in February	49thof 50	29 °C

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Yogyakarta’s climate

When is the best time to visit Yogyakarta?

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

How hot does Yogyakarta get?

In October, the warmest month, daily highs average 30 °C. About 81 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 21 °C in August, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Yogyakarta?

December, averaging 369 mm over 28 days with rain. The driest month is August with 41 mm. The year as a whole averages 2,592 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 Yogyakarta 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.