Bima climate by month
What the weather is like
Bima has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw): .
The warmest month is October, when afternoons average 32° and nights 25°. February is the coolest month, with highs of 29° and lows of 25°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 2°, a small seasonal swing typical of places tempered by the sea.
About 1,370 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. January is the wettest month (273 mm, 27 wet days) and July the driest (26 mm, 3 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 19% in August to 67% in January.
The sea reaches about 30° in November. Sea temperatures lag the air by a month or two, so late summer is usually warmer for swimming than early summer.
Compared with Jakarta, the capital, Bima is 0.7° warmer on a October afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 32° · October
- Coldest nights
- 23° · August
- Wettest month
- January
- Driest month
- July
- Clearest skies
- August · 19% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 30° · November
- Longest day
- 12 h 37 min
- Shortest day
- 11 h 38 min
Twelve months at a glance
Temperature and precipitation
Daily high/low range bars, monthly precipitation columns, sea temperature lineTemperature curve
Average high, low and seaDaylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on the 15th of each monthClimate normals month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | 29° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 30° | 31° | 32° | 31° | 29° |
| Average low | 25° | 25° | 25° | 25° | 24° | 24° | 23° | 23° | 23° | 25° | 25° | 25° |
| Precipitation | 273 mm | 266 mm | 193 mm | 91 mm | 77 mm | 30 mm | 26 mm | 5 mm | 12 mm | 33 mm | 132 mm | 232 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 27 | 27 | 23.8 | 15.8 | 10.3 | 9.8 | 3 | 3.3 | 4.2 | 10.7 | 21 | 26.3 |
| Cloud cover | 67% | 67% | 54% | 41% | 26% | 22% | 21% | 19% | 20% | 25% | 40% | 61% |
| Sea temperature | 29° | 28° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 28° | 28° | 28° | 29° | 30° | 29° |
| Daylight | 12h 34 | 12h 22 | 12h 10 | 11h 55 | 11h 44 | 11h 38 | 11h 40 | 11h 50 | 12h 03 | 12h 17 | 12h 30 | 12h 37 |
| Month score | 36 | 36 | 40 | 44 | 57 | 60 | 76 | 72 | 64 | 46 | 37 | 36 |