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Padang weather by month

Padang runs from about 26°C in August to 27°C in May, with March the wettest month at 527 mm.

warmest month

May

27°C

coolest month

August

26°C

wettest month

March

527 mm

worst air month

January

23 µg/m³

The whole year, month by month.

Monthly climate normals for Padang
MonthAvg tempRainSunPM2.5
January26°C396 mm261 h23
February27°C258 mm248 h19
March27°C527 mm269 h20
April27°C474 mm245 h15
May27°C422 mm248 h15
June26°C312 mm276 h18
July27°C71 mm316 h18
August26°C413 mm283 h18
September26°C260 mm272 h16
October26°C397 mm299 h20
November26°C300 mm247 h12
December26°C337 mm241 h15

About 3,205 hours of sun a year. Roughly 329 rainy days a year.

These are long-run climate normals, not a forecast. A given year can sit well outside them. PM2.5 is a global model: near the coast it counts sea salt as fine particulate and reads high against ground stations, sometimes by a factor of two. Use the shape of the year, not the absolute number.

where these numbers come from

  • · Temperature, rainfall and sunshine: ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis climate normals via Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0), fetched once and stored.
  • · PM2.5: Copernicus CAMS reanalysis, monthly means. Modelled, not station readings; near coasts CAMS counts sea salt as PM2.5 and reads high.

Last reviewed 2026-05-24. Full method, licences and the list of sources we rejected are on the methodology page.