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Palu weather

Central Sulawesi · 389,959 inhabitants · Friday, October 30 · updated 02:03

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

22°

Mainly clear

Feels like 31°C

Wind

2 km/h

Gusts

4 km/h

Humidity

92 %

Pressure

1014 hPa

Clouds

23 %

Storm

Rise 05:39 Set 17:48 Day 12 h 8 min UV 9 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Night

Mainly clear

22°20°

Feels like 31°

Wind ↑ SSE 5 km/h

Humidity 92 %

💧 0.1 mm

Morning

Rain showers

30°26°

Feels like 36°

Wind ↑ NNW 7 km/h

Humidity 51 %

💧 0.2 mm

⚡ storm

Afternoon

Rain showers

29°24°

Feels like 39°

Wind ↑ W 4 km/h

Humidity 70 %

💧 2.3 mm

⚡ storm

Evening

Rain showers

24°20°

Feels like 34°

Wind ↑ SE 5 km/h

Humidity 90 %

💧 2.7 mm

⚡ storm

08:00

26°

ENE 2

11:00

30°

0.2mm

NNW 7

14:00

29°

1.1mm

NW 4

17:00

24°

1.2mm

W 4

20:00

24°

1.8mm

SE 3

23:00

20°

0.9mm

SE 5

02:00

22°

0.9mm

SE 3

05:00

19°

SSE 6

Palu 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)

Palu climate: what a normal year looks like

A normal year brings roughly 3,550 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 27 °C in July to 28 °C in May, and the coolest nights (July) average 21 °C.

There is no real dry season: monthly rainfall stays between 242 mm and 331 mm on average.

The coming week looks normal for October: forecast highs average 28 °C, against a usual 28 °C.

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	28 °C	21 °C	253 mm
Feb	28 °C	21 °C	242 mm
Mar	28 °C	21 °C	284 mm
Apr	28 °C	21 °C	315 mm
May	28 °C	22 °C	331 mm
Jun	28 °C	21 °C	323 mm
Jul	27 °C	21 °C	323 mm
Aug	28 °C	21 °C	296 mm
Sep	28 °C	21 °C	307 mm
Oct	28 °C	21 °C	318 mm
Nov	28 °C	21 °C	307 mm
Dec	28 °C	21 °C	254 mm
Whole year	28 °C	21 °C	3,550 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 0.91° S, 119.87° 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 Palu: pollution and pollen

4/6

Poor

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.539µg/m³

PM1044µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Palu

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

Moon over Palu

Waning gibbous

79 % illuminated · 19.3 days

Rise 18:47 Set 06:20

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 Palu

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

Palu weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Palu, Central Sulawesi: 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 22 °C (feels like 31 °C) and the wind blows at 2 km/h.

Expected range today: 19 °C to 30 °C and around 6 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