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Samarinda weather

East Kalimantan · 865,306 inhabitants · Friday, October 30 · updated 01:03

Mainly clear
28°
Mainly clear
Feels like 40°C
Wind
2 km/h
Gusts
3 km/h
Humidity
79 %
Pressure
1012 hPa
Clouds
25 %
Storm
No
Rise 05:51 Set 17:59 Day 12 h 7 min UV 7 · High

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Night
Rain showers
Rain showers
26°23°
Feels like 38°
Wind ↑ WSW 3 km/h
Humidity 89 %
💧 1.2 mm
⚡ storm
Morning
Overcast
Overcast
35°29°
Feels like 45°
Wind ↑ NNE 2 km/h
Humidity 46 %
💧 0.2 mm
Afternoon
Rain showers
Rain showers
34°31°
Feels like 45°
Wind ↑ SE 9 km/h
Gusts 15 km/h
Humidity 55 %
💧 0.7 mm
⚡ storm
Evening
Rain showers
Rain showers
28°24°
Feels like 41°
Wind ↑ SE 5 km/h
Humidity 82 %
💧 0.2 mm
⚡ storm
08:00
Clear sky
29°
0.1mm
WSW 1
11:00
Overcast
35°
0.1mm
NNE 2
14:00
Rain showers
34°
0.7mm
ESE 5
17:00
Clear sky
31°
SE 9
20:00
Rain showers
28°
0.2mm
SE 5
23:00
Clear sky
24°
SE 1
02:00
Clear sky
26°
SSW 4
05:00
Mainly clear
23°
0.1mm
WSW 2

Samarinda forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +2.7° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
21°25°29°33°37°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed33°23°Thu 29 Oct: max 34° · min 23° · normal 26.2°Fri 30 Oct: max 35° · min 23° · normal 26.1°Sat 31 Oct: max 35° · min 23° · normal 26.1°Sun 1 Nov: max 35° · min 23° · normal 26.1°Mon 2 Nov: max 35° · min 23° · normal 26.1°Tue 3 Nov: max 34° · min 23° · normal 26.1°Wed 4 Nov: max 33° · min 23° · normal 26.1°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu21°29°37°35°23°03
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Samarinda climate: what a normal year looks like

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

A normal year brings roughly 3,040 mm of rain — more than 98% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

There is no real dry season: monthly rainfall stays between 168 mm and 316 mm on average.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 35 °C, 3 °C warmer than a normal October (32 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan31 °C24 °C286 mm
Feb31 °C24 °C250 mm
Mar31 °C24 °C307 mm
Apr31 °C24 °C314 mm
May31 °C24 °C266 mm
Jun31 °C24 °C229 mm
Jul31 °C23 °C190 mm
Aug31 °C24 °C168 mm
Sep32 °C24 °C179 mm
Oct32 °C24 °C237 mm
Nov31 °C24 °C302 mm
Dec31 °C24 °C316 mm
Whole year31 °C24 °C3,040 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 0.49° S, 117.15° 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 Samarinda: pollution and pollen

2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.515µg/m³
PM1017µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Samarinda

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

Moon over Samarinda

Waning gibbous
79 % illuminated · 19.3 days
Rise 18:58 Set 06:33
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.

Sea and tides near Samarinda

Tide station used: Samarinda

Sea state
Rippled
waves 0.1 m
Period
4 s
Swell
0.1 m
ThuThu 29/10
High tide 08:28 1.9 m
Low tide 13:55 0.1 m
High tide 20:35 2.9 m
TodayFri 30/10
Low tide 02:53 0.3 m
High tide 08:55 1.8 m
Low tide 14:18 0.2 m
High tide 21:07 2.7 m
TomorrowSat 31/10
Low tide 03:26 0.5 m
High tide 09:15 1.6 m
Low tide 14:37 0.4 m
High tide 21:36 2.5 m
SunSun 01/11
Low tide 04:00 0.7 m
High tide 09:29 1.5 m
Low tide 14:58 0.6 m
High tide 22:08 2.2 m

Indicative heights above chart datum. Coefficient: 20 for the weakest tides, 120 for the strongest.

Look up a past day in Samarinda

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

Samarinda weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Samarinda, East 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 28 °C (feels like 40 °C) and the wind blows at 2 km/h.

Expected range today: 23 °C to 35 °C and around 1 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, plus the tide times for Samarinda.

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