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Padang weather

West Sumatra · 942,938 inhabitants · Friday, October 30 · updated 04:24

Rain showers
26°
Rain showers
Feels like 35°C
Wind
8 km/h
Gusts
8 km/h
Humidity
81 %
Pressure
1013 hPa
Clouds
64 %
Storm
No
Rise 05:57 Set 18:06 Day 12 h 8 min UV 4 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Night
Light rain
Light rain
26°
Feels like 36°
Wind ↑ ESE 8 km/h
Humidity 87 %
💧 4.0 mm
Morning
Rain showers
Rain showers
26°
Feels like 37°
Wind ↑ ESE 11 km/h
Humidity 84 %
💧 0.7 mm
Afternoon
Light rain
Light rain
29°25°
Feels like 40°
Wind ↑ S 10 km/h
Humidity 77 %
💧 1.8 mm
⚡ storm
Evening
Rain showers
Rain showers
27°26°
Feels like 38°
Wind ↑ SE 15 km/h
Humidity 84 %
💧 1.6 mm
07:00
Rain showers
26°
0.5mm
ESE 6
10:00
Drizzle
26°
0.2mm
SE 11
13:00
Drizzle
29°
0.4mm
S 10
16:00
Light rain
25°
1.4mm
NNE 3
19:00
Rain showers
27°
1.6mm
SE 11
22:00
Mainly clear
26°
SE 15
01:00
Mainly clear
26°
SE 9
04:00
Partly cloudy
26°
ESE 10

Padang 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)
22°24°27°29°31°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed28°26°Thu 29 Oct: max 26° · min 26° · normal 25.9°Fri 30 Oct: max 29° · min 25° · normal 25.9°Sat 31 Oct: max 29° · min 25° · normal 25.9°Sun 1 Nov: max 29° · min 26° · normal 25.9°Mon 2 Nov: max 29° · min 26° · normal 25.9°Tue 3 Nov: max 28° · min 24° · normal 25.9°Wed 4 Nov: max 28° · min 26° · normal 25.9°

Hourly detail

FriSatSunMonTueWedThuFri23°27°30°29°24°031
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Padang climate: what a normal year looks like

A normal year brings roughly 4,400 mm of rain — more than 99% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

The thermometer moves little from one season to the next: typical afternoon highs range from 26 °C in September to 27 °C in May, and the coolest nights (August) average 21 °C.

There is no real dry season: monthly rainfall stays between 259 mm and 502 mm on average.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 28 °C, 2 °C warmer than a normal October (26 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan27 °C22 °C314 mm
Feb27 °C22 °C280 mm
Mar27 °C22 °C325 mm
Apr27 °C22 °C387 mm
May27 °C22 °C350 mm
Jun27 °C22 °C259 mm
Jul27 °C21 °C297 mm
Aug26 °C21 °C392 mm
Sep26 °C21 °C442 mm
Oct26 °C21 °C473 mm
Nov26 °C22 °C502 mm
Dec26 °C22 °C383 mm
Whole year27 °C22 °C4,400 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 1.00° S, 100.37° 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 Padang: pollution and pollen

2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.518µg/m³
PM1018µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Padang

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Padang, 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 Padang yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Padang

Waning gibbous
79 % illuminated · 19.3 days
Rise 21:09 Set 08:42
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/Jakarta); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Padang

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

Padang weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Padang, West Sumatra: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “rain showers”, it is 26 °C (feels like 35 °C) and the wind blows at 8 km/h.

Expected range today: 25 °C to 29 °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.

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