Weather in Denpasar in July

Prime time. If you get to pick your dates, July is the one. The heat itself is manageable at 28.3 °C, but 83% humidity is what you will actually feel.

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

Rain on 7 days, 1 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 83% nothing dries, including you.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: the day barely swings — 4.8 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest July day reached 31.2 °C and the coldest night fell to 20.9 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 25 mm — roughly 63% of the month's rain in one day.

This is the volatile part. July rainfall has ranged from 2 mm to 139 mm across the twenty years measured — a 137 mm spread around an average of 40 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 6.3 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 83%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How July sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 28.8 °C in June, 28.3 here, 28.7 in August. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in July

Denpasar sits close enough to the equator that daylight barely moves all year — 11.7 hours in July, against a range of just 1 hour across the whole calendar. Sunrise and sunset land at roughly the same time whenever you come.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 26.3 °C in July — warm enough to stay in as long as you like. The sea peaks at 29.2 °C in March and bottoms out at 25.7 °C — water lags the air by a month or two, which is why the best swimming often comes after the best weather.

How busy it gets

Peak season. Expect the highest prices of the year and to be booking well ahead. If the dates are flexible, June is the trade worth considering — 13 points weaker on weather, and materially quieter.

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

July in Denpasar versus nearby

If Denpasar is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Surabaya is the weaker option in July — 2.9 °C warmer, 1 day less rain. Labuan Bajo is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 2 days less rain.

So: July is effectively as good as it gets here — 4 points behind August, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.

Every month in Denpasar

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