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Palembang weather

South Sumatra · 1,801,367 inhabitants · Friday, October 30 · updated 01:03

Rain showers
25°
Rain showers
Feels like 36°C
Wind
5 km/h
Gusts
5 km/h
Humidity
95 %
Pressure
1014 hPa
Clouds
61 %
Storm
Low
Rise 05:38 Set 17:51 Day 12 h 12 min UV 3 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Night
Rain showers
Rain showers
25°24°
Feels like 36°
Wind ↑ W 5 km/h
Humidity 95 %
💧 1.9 mm
⚡ storm
Morning
Mainly clear
Mainly clear
30°25°
Feels like 40°
Wind ↑ W 7 km/h
Humidity 66 %
Afternoon
Overcast
Overcast
33°32°
Feels like 44°
Wind ↑ WSW 9 km/h
Humidity 61 %
💧 0.1 mm
Evening
Rain showers
Rain showers
29°26°
Feels like 41°
Wind ↑ ENE 4 km/h
Humidity 81 %
💧 0.8 mm
⚡ storm
07:00
Mainly clear
25°
W 7
10:00
Mainly clear
30°
WSW 6
13:00
Overcast
33°
0.1mm
SSW 2
16:00
Mainly clear
32°
WSW 9
19:00
Overcast
29°
0.1mm
ENE 4
22:00
Rain showers
26°
0.7mm
SE 4
01:00
Rain showers
25°
0.7mm
SE 4
04:00
Mainly clear
24°
SE 6

Palembang forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +2.6° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
21°26°30°35°39°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed32°25°Thu 29 Oct: max 33° · min 24° · normal 26.1°Fri 30 Oct: max 33° · min 24° · normal 26.0°Sat 31 Oct: max 37° · min 24° · normal 26.0°Sun 1 Nov: max 34° · min 25° · normal 26.0°Mon 2 Nov: max 33° · min 24° · normal 26.0°Tue 3 Nov: max 33° · min 23° · normal 26.0°Wed 4 Nov: max 32° · min 25° · normal 26.0°

Hourly detail

FriSatSunMonTueWedThuFri22°30°38°37°23°03
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Palembang climate: what a normal year looks like

Every month of the year sees typical highs of 30 °C or more — January, the mildest, still averages 30 °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: 11 h 57 min of daylight in late June, 12 h 17 min in late December.

The coming week looks normal for October: forecast highs average 33 °C, against a usual 33 °C.

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan30 °C24 °C258 mm
Feb31 °C24 °C251 mm
Mar31 °C24 °C309 mm
Apr31 °C24 °C283 mm
May32 °C25 °C193 mm
Jun31 °C24 °C129 mm
Jul31 °C24 °C122 mm
Aug32 °C24 °C87 mm
Sep33 °C24 °C96 mm
Oct33 °C24 °C189 mm
Nov31 °C24 °C299 mm
Dec30 °C24 °C307 mm
Whole year31 °C24 °C2,520 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 2.92° S, 104.75° 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 Palembang: pollution and pollen

6/6
Extremely poor
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.585µg/m³
PM1088µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Palembang

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

Moon over Palembang

Waning gibbous
79 % illuminated · 19.3 days
Rise 20:54 Set 08:19
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 Palembang

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

Palembang weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Palembang, South 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 25 °C (feels like 36 °C) and the wind blows at 5 km/h.

Expected range today: 24 °C to 33 °C and around 2 mm of rain; 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