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Pekanbaru weather

Riau · 1,167,599 inhabitants · Friday, October 30 · updated 00:04

Heavy rain
25°
Heavy rain
Feels like 37°C
Wind
3 km/h
Gusts
17 km/h
Humidity
94 %
Pressure
1014 hPa
Clouds
100 %
Storm
No
Rise 05:54 Set 18:00 Day 12 h 6 min UV 3 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Night
Rain
Rain
24°22°
Feels like 35°
Wind ↑ W 5 km/h
Humidity 96 %
💧 18.9 mm
Morning
Overcast
Overcast
24°
Feels like 35°
Wind ↑ SSW 3 km/h
Humidity 94 %
Afternoon
Partly cloudy
Partly cloudy
32°29°
Feels like 44°
Wind ↑ S 6 km/h
Humidity 63 %
Evening
Mainly clear
Mainly clear
28°24°
Feels like 41°
Wind ↑ ENE 2 km/h
Humidity 87 %
07:00
Overcast
24°
SSW 3
10:00
Partly cloudy
24°
SSW 3
13:00
Partly cloudy
32°
NE 2
16:00
Mainly clear
29°
S 6
19:00
Mainly clear
28°
ENE 1
22:00
Mainly clear
24°
W 2
01:00
Mainly clear
25°
0.1mm
SSW 2
04:00
Rain showers
22°
2.6mm
SSW 3

Pekanbaru forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +1.9° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
20°24°28°31°35°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed32°23°Thu 29 Oct: max 31° · min 22° · normal 25.5°Fri 30 Oct: max 32° · min 22° · normal 25.5°Sat 31 Oct: max 33° · min 24° · normal 25.5°Sun 1 Nov: max 33° · min 23° · normal 25.5°Mon 2 Nov: max 32° · min 23° · normal 25.5°Tue 3 Nov: max 32° · min 23° · normal 25.5°Wed 4 Nov: max 32° · min 23° · normal 25.5°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu21°28°34°33°22°019
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Pekanbaru climate: what a normal year looks like

Every month of the year sees typical highs of 30 °C or more — December, the mildest, still averages 31 °C.

A normal year brings roughly 2,580 mm of rain — more than 95% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

There is no real dry season: monthly rainfall stays between 135 mm and 314 mm on average.

The coming week looks normal for October: forecast highs average 32 °C, against a usual 32 °C.

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan31 °C23 °C224 mm
Feb32 °C24 °C172 mm
Mar32 °C24 °C229 mm
Apr32 °C24 °C249 mm
May32 °C24 °C202 mm
Jun32 °C24 °C139 mm
Jul32 °C24 °C135 mm
Aug32 °C23 °C170 mm
Sep31 °C23 °C207 mm
Oct32 °C24 °C258 mm
Nov31 °C24 °C314 mm
Dec31 °C24 °C282 mm
Whole year32 °C24 °C2,580 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 0.52° N, 101.44° 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 Pekanbaru: pollution and pollen

1/6
Good
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.55µg/m³
PM105µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Pekanbaru

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

Moon over Pekanbaru

Waning gibbous
79 % illuminated · 19.3 days
Rise 21:01 Set 08:40
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 Pekanbaru

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

Pekanbaru weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Pekanbaru, Riau: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “heavy rain”, it is 25 °C (feels like 37 °C) and the wind blows at 3 km/h.

Expected range today: 22 °C to 32 °C and around 3 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