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Pontianak weather

West Kalimantan · 686,019 inhabitants · Friday, October 30 · updated 01:07

Mainly clear
26°
Mainly clear
Feels like 38°C
Wind
5 km/h
Gusts
9 km/h
Humidity
88 %
Pressure
1013 hPa
Clouds
49 %
Storm
No
Rise 05:22 Set 17:29 Day 12 h 7 min UV 4 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Night
Rain showers
Rain showers
26°25°
Feels like 38°
Wind ↑ WSW 5 km/h
Humidity 88 %
💧 0.2 mm
⚡ storm
Morning
Rain showers
Rain showers
30°27°
Feels like 41°
Wind ↑ W 6 km/h
Humidity 69 %
💧 0.9 mm
⚡ storm
Afternoon
Rain showers
Rain showers
30°29°
Feels like 42°
Wind ↑ WSW 12 km/h
Humidity 76 %
💧 2.0 mm
⚡ storm
Evening
Rain showers
Rain showers
27°26°
Feels like 39°
Wind ↑ WNW 6 km/h
Gusts 13 km/h
Humidity 88 %
💧 1.2 mm
⚡ storm
07:00
Rain showers
27°
0.2mm
W 2
10:00
Rain showers
30°
0.7mm
W 6
13:00
Rain showers
30°
1.8mm
WSW 10
16:00
Rain showers
29°
0.2mm
WSW 12
19:00
Rain showers
27°
1.1mm
WNW 3
22:00
Partly cloudy
26°
0.1mm
SW 6
01:00
Rain showers
25°
0.4mm
SE 4
04:00
Rain showers
25°
0.5mm
S 3

Pontianak forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +2.0° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
22°25°28°30°33°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed30°24°Thu 29 Oct: max 30° · min 25° · normal 25.6°Fri 30 Oct: max 30° · min 25° · normal 25.6°Sat 31 Oct: max 31° · min 25° · normal 25.6°Sun 1 Nov: max 32° · min 25° · normal 25.6°Mon 2 Nov: max 31° · min 25° · normal 25.6°Tue 3 Nov: max 30° · min 26° · normal 25.6°Wed 4 Nov: max 30° · min 24° · normal 25.6°

Hourly detail

FriSatSunMonTueWedThuFri23°28°33°32°24°010
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Pontianak climate: what a normal year looks like

A normal year brings roughly 3,140 mm of rain — more than 98% 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 29 °C in December to 31 °C in August, and the coolest nights (January) average 24 °C.

Days are almost the same length all year: 12 h 07 min of daylight in late June, 12 h 07 min in late December.

The coming week looks normal for October: forecast highs average 30 °C, against a usual 30 °C.

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan29 °C24 °C286 mm
Feb30 °C24 °C203 mm
Mar30 °C24 °C233 mm
Apr30 °C24 °C291 mm
May31 °C25 °C251 mm
Jun31 °C24 °C188 mm
Jul31 °C24 °C166 mm
Aug31 °C24 °C162 mm
Sep31 °C24 °C216 mm
Oct30 °C24 °C343 mm
Nov29 °C24 °C413 mm
Dec29 °C24 °C387 mm
Whole year30 °C24 °C3,140 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 0.03° S, 109.33° 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 Pontianak: pollution and pollen

4/6
Poor
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.534µg/m³
PM1035µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Pontianak

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

Moon over Pontianak

Waning gibbous
79 % illuminated · 19.3 days
Rise 20:30 Set 08:06
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/Pontianak); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Pontianak

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

Pontianak weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Pontianak, West Kalimantan: 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 26 °C (feels like 38 °C) and the wind blows at 5 km/h.

Expected range today: 25 °C to 30 °C and around 5 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