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Makassar weather

South Sulawesi · 1,474,393 inhabitants · Friday, October 30 · updated 03:03

Air: Moderate Heatwave risk · 10 d Moderate storm risk · Thu, Sat, Mon

26°

Clear sky

Feels like 35°C

Wind

3 km/h

Gusts

6 km/h

Humidity

78 %

Pressure

1012 hPa

Clouds

2 %

Storm

Rise 05:37 Set 17:54 Day 12 h 17 min UV 9 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Night

Clear sky

26°25°

Feels like 35°

Wind ↑ SSE 7 km/h

Humidity 78 %

Morning

Mainly clear

34°30°

Feels like 42°

Wind ↑ W 17 km/h

Humidity 47 %

Afternoon

Partly cloudy

33°31°

Feels like 44°

Wind ↑ S 19 km/h

Humidity 60 %

💧 0.2 mm

Evening

Clear sky

29°27°

Feels like 40°

Wind ↑ SE 7 km/h

Humidity 76 %

💧 0.1 mm

08:00

30°

SW 1

11:00

34°

W 17

14:00

33°

0.1mm

SW 10

17:00

31°

0.1mm

S 19

20:00

29°

0.1mm

SE 7

23:00

27°

E 6

02:00

26°

ESE 5

05:00

26°

SSE 4

Makassar forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +2.3° warmer than usual

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

Hourly detail

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

Makassar climate: what a normal year looks like

The thermometer moves little from one season to the next: typical afternoon highs range from 28 °C in January to 31 °C in September, and the coolest nights (August) average 24 °C.

A normal year brings roughly 2,810 mm of rain — more than 97% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Days are almost the same length all year: 11 h 49 min of daylight in late June, 12 h 25 min in late December.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 34 °C, 4 °C warmer than a normal October (30 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	28 °C	25 °C	469 mm
Feb	28 °C	25 °C	357 mm
Mar	29 °C	25 °C	289 mm
Apr	29 °C	25 °C	273 mm
May	30 °C	25 °C	201 mm
Jun	30 °C	25 °C	154 mm
Jul	29 °C	24 °C	103 mm
Aug	30 °C	24 °C	47 mm
Sep	31 °C	24 °C	54 mm
Oct	30 °C	25 °C	147 mm
Nov	29 °C	25 °C	251 mm
Dec	28 °C	25 °C	462 mm
Whole year	29 °C	25 °C	2,810 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 5.15° S, 119.43° 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 Makassar: pollution and pollen

3/6

Moderate

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.521µg/m³

PM1022µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Makassar

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

Full-screen rain radar and next-hour rain on RainAtlas

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

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

Moon over Makassar

Waning gibbous

79 % illuminated · 19.3 days

Rise 18:57 Set 06:13

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 Makassar

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

Makassar weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Makassar, South Sulawesi: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “clear sky”, it is 26 °C (feels like 35 °C) and the wind blows at 3 km/h.

Expected range today: 26 °C to 34 °C and a dry sky; keep an eye on thunderstorms; it will be very hot. 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.

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