Weather in Bandung in July

A good month. July is a solid month to be in Bandung. The heat itself is manageable at 26.6 °C, but 88% humidity is what you will actually feel.

July ranks 2 of 12 in Bandung. Only August scores clearly higher, and the difference is small enough to be settled by price rather than weather.

Rain on 12 days, 2 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Natural fibres and a second shirt for the day. At 88% nothing dries, including you.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: it never really gets hot: not one day in an average July reaches 30 °C. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest July day reached 28.4 °C and the coldest night fell to 13.4 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 49 mm — roughly 65% of the month's rain in one day.

This is the volatile part. July rainfall has ranged from 2 mm to 304 mm across the twenty years measured — a 302 mm spread around an average of 75 mm. The average is real but almost no individual July looks like it, so treat the figure as the middle of a wide range rather than a forecast.

Wind is light at 5.2 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity at 88% is the real story though — it is the number that decides how the day feels, not the 26.6 °C.

How July sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 26.6 °C in June, 26.6 here, 27.2 in August. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in July

Bandung sits close enough to the equator that daylight barely moves all year — 11.8 hours in July, against a range of just 0.8 hours across the whole calendar. Sunrise and sunset land at roughly the same time whenever you come.

An inland climate

Despite being inland, the year stays fairly even: 10.8 °C between the year's warmest afternoons and coldest nights. At 714 m the air is thin enough to matter — sun that burns faster than the temperature suggests, and nights that cool off quickly.

How busy it gets

Peak season. Expect the highest prices of the year and to be booking well ahead. If the dates are flexible, September is the trade worth considering — 11 points weaker on weather, and materially quieter.

Crowd levels are estimated from climate desirability and school-holiday calendars, not from visitor numbers.

July in Bandung versus nearby

If Bandung is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Jakarta is the weaker option in July — 2.6 °C warmer, 3 days more rain. Bandar Lampung is close enough to be a coin toss — 2.7 °C warmer, 1 day less rain.

So: July works, with August the better month by 8 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

Every month in Bandung

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