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Balikpapan weather

East Kalimantan · 695,287 inhabitants · Friday, October 30 · updated 01:05

Air: Fair High storm risk · Today, Tomorrow, Sun

28°

Mainly clear

Feels like 40°C

Wind

6 km/h

Gusts

12 km/h

Humidity

81 %

Pressure

1012 hPa

Clouds

25 %

Storm

Rise 05:51 Set 18:01 Day 12 h 9 min UV 10 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Night

Rain showers

26°24°

Feels like 38°

Wind ↑ SW 5 km/h

Gusts 13 km/h

Humidity 89 %

💧 0.6 mm

⚡ storm

Morning

Rain showers

30°28°

Feels like 41°

Wind ↑ SSE 10 km/h

Humidity 66 %

💧 0.7 mm

⚡ storm

Afternoon

Rain showers

32°29°

Feels like 44°

Wind ↑ SE 10 km/h

Humidity 67 %

💧 0.8 mm

⚡ storm

Evening

Clear sky

28°26°

Feels like 41°

Wind ↑ SE 5 km/h

Humidity 84 %

💧 0.1 mm

08:00

28°

0.1mm

SSW 5

11:00

30°

0.6mm

SSE 10

14:00

32°

0.8mm

SSE 10

17:00

29°

SE 10

20:00

28°

0.1mm

SE 5

23:00

26°

SSE 4

02:00

27°

1.8mm

SSW 5

05:00

24°

0.6mm

W 5

Balikpapan forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

≈ A week close to the usual temperatures

Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)

Hourly detail

Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Balikpapan climate: what a normal year looks like

The thermometer moves little from one season to the next: typical afternoon highs range from 29 °C in July to 30 °C in April, and the coolest nights (July) average 25 °C.

A normal year brings roughly 2,520 mm of rain — more than 94% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Days are almost the same length all year: 12 h 02 min of daylight in late June, 12 h 11 min in late December.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 32 °C, 2 °C warmer than a normal October (30 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	30 °C	25 °C	269 mm
Feb	30 °C	25 °C	238 mm
Mar	30 °C	25 °C	280 mm
Apr	30 °C	25 °C	273 mm
May	30 °C	26 °C	211 mm
Jun	30 °C	25 °C	184 mm
Jul	29 °C	25 °C	153 mm
Aug	29 °C	25 °C	113 mm
Sep	30 °C	25 °C	120 mm
Oct	30 °C	25 °C	168 mm
Nov	30 °C	25 °C	230 mm
Dec	30 °C	25 °C	280 mm
Whole year	30 °C	25 °C	2,520 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 1.27° S, 116.83° E, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.

Air you breathe in Balikpapan: pollution and pollen

2/6

Fair

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.517µg/m³

PM1018µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Balikpapan

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Balikpapan, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

No open weather radar covers Balikpapan yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Balikpapan

Waning gibbous

79 % illuminated · 19.3 days

Rise 19:01 Set 06:32

Sat 31/10 69%

Sun 1/11 59%

Mon 2/11 49% Last quarter

Tue 3/11 38%

Wed 4/11 28%

Thu 5/11 19%

Fri 6/11 12%

Sat 7/11 6%

Sun 8/11 2%

Mon 9/11 0%

Tue 10/11 1% New moon

Wed 11/11 3%

Moonrise and moonset in local time (Asia/Makassar); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Balikpapan

Curious about the weather in Balikpapan on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.

Balikpapan weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Balikpapan, East Kalimantan: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “mainly clear”, it is 28 °C (feels like 40 °C) and the wind blows at 6 km/h.

Expected range today: 24 °C to 32 °C and around 4 mm of rain; keep an eye on thunderstorms. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms.

Other big cities nearby

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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations